Protium Cannon 2 - I am literally shooting for the moon You cannot pressurize gunpowder - this you can Every other fuel requires an oxygen/oxidizer - this does not Every other fuel uses hydrocarbons - this does not Every other fuel cannot explode in a vacuum - this can

This is a potato gun. Nothing more.

what would happen if I shot down a starlink satellite. Like how mad would you really be?

aren’t you, just a little curious?

Wrong from the very first sentence. Been there, done that. (180 km in 1966) Though I applaud your work and encourage your continued progress.

It’s a lit-up potato gun shooting golf balls. He’s lying because in the video he admits it’s a hydrogen and oxygen cannon (oxyhydrogen mix). Hydrogen needs an oxidizer to combust or explode—pure protium does not magically do either in vacuum or anywhere else. The “no oxidizer needed” claim is pure fiction to hype a backyard combustion launcher as revolutionary moon tech. Escape velocity is about 11km/s. That speed would shred any golfball. lol… His potato gun MAYBE hits 100 METERS PER SECOND. Not to mention that he’d need a second boost if he wants to put anything into orbit. It’s physics.

Looks stupid and fake.

How confident are you that you can launch a projectile like a 50 gallon drum of water into space, not destroying it and accurately enough to get it into orbit? I'd love to see this work but there are a number of physics challenges. The spin boys couldn't do it..

100% and I could build the whole thing for $1m. I even have a special freezing method to ensure its survival. That’s cannon 4. It’s built underground. You could put a gun to my head, and my answer is the same. My kids head. That’s how sure I am.

Sure. Cmon. It’s fucking plastic. Nice light show though. Into space LOL. 😂 You could launch a golf ball further with a baseball bat.

I also tried to invent a light gas gun once. You will run into the same issues as me. Ablation is your biggest issue. The projectile will melt into plasma without ridiculous heavy shielding, and the mass needed for a practical projectile will exceed the amount of force you can generate to counter drag, and gravitational pull.

At least this guy is having fun with his glorified potato gun, some led strips and a story to go along with his big imagination.

You designing this:

LED light strips are not an engineering feat

“Where the fk that come from?”

Dr. Gerald Bull started the company Space Research with the goal of launching satellites using a 3 foot diameter howitzer. He later was assazzinated by an Israeli hit squad.

…….. k

You'll put your eye out.

Overhyped RGB potato cannon, so much wow...

Maybe you could hit the fake space station that's underwater. Maybe you could find the fake space above the dome?

Dude, the gov will take that, classifying it as a threat to national security if you're not careful. Could that same tech be applied to automobile engines or electricity production?

Yeah, I think your machine is bullshit because if it worked, you would’ve not sat here for this amount of time showing nothing. I mean, I used to build potato guns like this in my garage back in the 70s and we used acetylene

A hydrogen explosion still needs a oxidizer. In this case its just oxygen. Electrolysis does split water into oxygen and hydrogen ,but your description is technically wrong.

So, you’re off on a few core concepts. ‘Going to space’ isn’t a matter of throwing a ball straight up into the air. Unless you can accelerate said ball to 25k mph so it escapes earth’s gravitational sphere and enters a solar orbit, it’s coming right back down. Even if you angle your trajectory and can achieve high enough instantaneous acceleration to retain the required velocity after atmospheric drag has slowed it on its much longer atmospheric trajectory, your ball is still suborbital. You need a second stage to raise your periapsis and achieve LEO. So now you need to launch another potato gun that can survive the instantaneous acceleration, the frictional heating during its atmospheric ascent, and then reorient itself to fire the projectile you want in orbit prograde, but on a new, orbital trajectory. Now this raises a new problem, because that second stage potato cannon has to be of significant enough mass to minimize its reaction to the momentum exchange between it and the final payload. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The energy of the explosion is exerting equal force on the potato gun, pushing it in the opposite direction you want the projectile to go, and an equal and opposite force on the projectile. So I rate this project as bogus as the guy claiming he was building blimps to go to space. Space isn’t orbit and not enough people understand this fact.

They will never make it unless they shape the projectile like a rocket, golf ball has waaaaay too much drag

Letting browns on the internet was a huge mistake

Air and friction says your lying lol, you need to propel an object 11 miles In To space vertically is not possible physics and gravity say no. Even rockets can't do that, that's why they travel in a ark to use the earth gravitational forces.

No. Nice little trick to get some ad rev though I guess.

Nonsense

Absolutely love the idea & enthusiasm. We need MORE of this mentality. Lots more. Question regarding material delivery. I’m no physics guy. At all. But I do love cool shit. This definitely counts. But what about the payload? Upon fire, wouldn’t it get compressed/reach a breaking point/liquify/become unidentifiable with enough thrust, pressure, or inertia behind it? I’d assume even a golf ball has a limit considering a hydraulic press can smash it flat. Water would only maintain deliver ability depending upon the strength of the delivery vessel itself I’d surmise. Perhaps I’m missing something regarding the vacuum equilibrium of contents at launch? It does seem as if it would make a hell of a launcher for rockets, mortars, drones, rods of god, etc for increased speed & distance for kinetic projectiles though. Again, I am even < physics novice so forgive my lack of accurate terminology. Amazing work though.

It’s a very complicated potato gun. With lights. This is what happens when you gives country whites too much money 😝

Your muzzle velocity is all that matters. Once the projectile leaves the barrel it begins to rapidly decelerate. It doesn’t matter how much fuel you mix, it’s all just a wasted expanding flame that comes after the ball. It’s too short. Make the barrel 10x longer for more velocity

I just couldn’t see that PVC and ABS contraption supplying the pressures you’re speaking of

That’s one heck of a tater gun. Wow.

High altitude research ballon payload launcher. That will get you into space. Your Welcome.

So what the hell you made this video for if you can’t shoot it🤦🏼‍♂️🗡️🔺🪐