Mythbusters and the Hwach'a

[AutomatedTeller]

For you non-US folks, this may be meaningless - I don't know how much international play the show gets. But tonight, they are actually making a Hwach'a and firing it at a styrofoam army.

If you get a chance, tune in!

I'll try to find a link to the clip on the website, too...

 

[AutomatedTeller]

Here is a link to a place where you can see the Hwach'a shoot 200 arrows.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/video/interactive/interactive.html

 

[donsig]

That's cool. It's difficult to tell if all the arrows were fired though since there's so much smoke. Do you know if they were all sent, how far they went and how accurate they were?

 

[AutomatedTeller]

They had 200 and all but one fired.

They went a little over 500 feet and they clustered together, though missed the target (of 50 styrofoam people) If there was a large army, a bunch of guys would be dead...

 

[peter grimes]

That was pretty neat! It would be even neater to make one ourselves

 

[General_W]

wow - cool!
Thanks for sharing AT!

 

[Paul#42]

nice.

Strange player however...