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Rumor around here is that some drunk plumbers came up with the idea. We'll never know for sure. It's like asking who invented the wheel. You might be able to find out who did the first hybrid, etc... though.

Peace,
Pete Zaria.

ur mom did


(YAY FIRST POST!!!)

OK I'd like to be the first to welcome you to the forums. But you probably don't want to start out by insulting people of a higher intelligence than yourself.

lol my IQ is negative

(yay post 2)

OK being that I can't guage your facial expression or the tone of your voice, I can't tell whether you're trying to insult me, or whether you're just being an idiot. Either way, you're not gaining any ground.

paaiyan wrote:Yea I will later. I posted this cause I didn't have much time on my hands at that time and wanted to see if anyone knew. Plus it gave me the chance to see how many people I could piss off by arrogantly claiming that the Americans did it.

Well you have pissed off 1 person so far....and counting

@Pete Zaria

It's like asking who invented the wheel. You might be able to find out who did the first hybrid, etc... though.

DR did.

Huzzah for pissing people off! But if anyone really does know I'd like to hear it. I don't care who it is.

You guys have to keep in mind that sarcasm flows from the tip of my tongue like an ever-flowing stream of flowing stuff.

"Vov35", or should I say "abcdefg", shape up or I'll have you banned. Nobody likes you. Prove some worth or you're out.

Recruit wrote:

jrrdw wrote:

pimpmann22 wrote:You guys so blantly believe it was a American that constructed a 'potato gun'. While if the question could be answered correctly it would be a interesting tid bit of information, but beyond that I don't really care.

There is a lake on the back side of the moon.

How about some supporting details?

How does the moon have sides, it's round.
Far as that lake goes --

The moon was hit by a meteor, i think the size of Texas.

umm if it was hit by a meteor that big from what I know it would have been smashed to pieces.

Key words in my post "I think" , even if it wasn't that big, it was still a meteor!

Who made the first cannon ever? No matter what kind it was.

jrrdw wrote:Who made the first cannon ever? No matter what kind it was.

Gunpowder (and the basis of modern explosives) was invented in China during the Han era, roughly around AD142 (thats when the first written records of gunpowder were made, as far as we know). I'd assume it was shortly after they made gunpowder that they figured out to put it in one end of a tube with a projectile in front of it.

Reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon#History

Peace,
Pete Zaria.

There is actually an answer to this.

There was a scientist (I can't remember/find the name) that created a cannon that used methane gas in a cannon to fire various stuff, using a spark to ignite the gas.

Although it wasn't actually firing potatos, it follows the basic principle that spudgunners use and was done in some hundreds of years back.

So we could consider this the first spudgun if we wanted.

I'll search to try and find the name, but I don't hold much hope.

I can live with that. Hooray for that guy!

Hundreds of years back you say? Hmm to long ago to be American unless some native indian or British/French colonist made one as soon as they discovered America.

Well at least we all know the Americans invented fish.

How does the moon have sides, it's round.

The moon has a dark side and a light side, one side faces us all the time while the other side is always in darkness.

I highly doubt that there was any single inventor of the potato cannon. My guess is that different people everywhere came up with it themselves and it just got spread around, finally gaining popularity, I mean lets face it a potato cannon is not a very sophisticated device (I am referring to the basic ones that were the source for the common cannons today.)

btw, Americans don't invent everything, and its quite arrogant to seriously believe that.

Cannon Freak