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LOL ... yeah ... speaking of data, YAY Mythbusters (maybe). Just one question, why were the man, woman, and child all asleep at 4:15 PM - and they didn't hear this as it "blasted through the bedroom" where they were? The picture here seems - a little odd, figuring the amount of velocity that should have been lost tearing through a cinderblock wall. At which point it continues about 700 YARDS (how big is a football field LOL) - and beyond? Me thinks something is wrong here. http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/27517529 In this experiment gone wrong:
The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.
There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all - only awakening because of plaster dust.
The ball wasn't done bouncing.
It exited the house, leaving a perfectly round hole in the stucco, crossed six-lane Tassajara Road, took out several tiles from the roof of a home on Bellevue Circle and finally slammed into the Gill family's beige Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.
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