Ill huff, and Ill puff, and Ill blow your house in! So said the rather nasty wolf to the Three Little Pigs, right before eating two of the poor little porkers. These foolish creatures chose to build their houses from sticks and from straw. The idiots. But could a puff of air really topple a house, even one made of old hay? Jem Stansfield, last seen using a vacuum cleaner to scale a building, decided to find out.
The video shows a Vortex Cannon, which fires out a pulse of spinning air at 200mph. When slowed down with a high-speed camera, you can see a ring hurtling towards the hastily constructed houses. This ring is in fact a 200mph cloud, formed from moisture condensed from the air itself.
So, how did the piggies homes fare? Poorly, Im afraid. The cannon even manages to blow the brick house in, wiping the smug look off that last little pigs pink face and resulting in an unexpected third course for the wolf.
Vortex Cannon! – Bang Goes the Theory Preview [YouTube/BBC via Geekologie]
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This post was written by publisher on July 31, 2009
