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Giant catapult sends satellites into space without rocket fuel (www.thebrighterside.news)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Can we use this to throw people we don't like?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It would squish them first.

[โ€“] Bashnagdul 10 points 9 hours ago

That's fine we didn't like them to begin with.

[โ€“] scholar 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Spin your enemies at high speeds in a vacuum until they're dead then launch their corpses into space

[โ€“] JeeBaiChow 1 points 8 hours ago

I think I saw this in one of the bond films. Only his watch saved him iirc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Throwing them is gonna kill them anyway, squishing is fine