Yes, this week's collaboration with the always awesome What is it? Blog brings us ... a spike - but can you guess its specific purpose? (hint: it has a VERY specific purpose)
Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, so you're playing for fame and glory. Please post no URL - let others play. For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog.
Good luck!
Update 8/22/09 - it's a device to disable cannons:Since the head of this tool can pivot, it can't be used as a hammer or pick. The owner of it had a Civil War book that described it as a cannon tool, he said that it was used by soldiers to disable enemy cannons or their own if they had to retreat. The spike was placed in the ignition hole and hammered until the cannon cracked or until the hole was large enough that the cannon was no longer usable.
I've since been informed that:
The phrase "to spike a cannon" meant to disable it by driving a tapered wrought iron plug, or spike, down the touch hole with a hammer until it was level and firmly embedded. I suppose the spike could eventually be drilled out, but tools to do this were not readily available, and the process would take some time.
Seems that nobody got it this time around!
Comments (48)
Bye
Ghisa
Last wensday I was in the 3rd submarine he has build, taking the first dive in it.
The Uc3 nautilus is 18.5 meters long and 32 tons.
Here we are sailing into the sunset ;)
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By the time the rocket turns off, you'll be in no state to take souvenir snapshots of your back garden. Most likely you'll be dead already.
The prize goes to Mooncake, with Giachetti a close second.
...um, yeah...Definitely pass.
--TwoDragons
Anti-grav "pressurized suits keep the blood in your head. As well as breathing training which equates to grunt breathing to force even more blood into the head will negate the passing out.
Also, do you really think someone who is not given a Class A physical will be allowed to fly. Hell, Richard Garriott just went to the space station. Pilots for jets in the military are given the same training and physicals.
Next time read a book other than Gayboy.
Ever ride roller coasters?
Most exceed 3g. Do you pass out on them?