How about the teams build a contraption that launches a human (team member)into a body of water or net and measure how far the person travels before landing. that would be sweet!

-- Niko Kallis (mkallis1@mane.rr.com), March 13, 2001

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That is the best idea I've seen yet!

-- Daddy-O (elvis@pelvis.com), March 13, 2001.

I agree. This one should definitely be on the show!!!!

-- Chelbus Kinkroy (chelbus@skunk.com), March 13, 2001.

A fellow here in Texas has built a trebuchet that was used for throwing him and his friends into the San Marcos river, total distance, as I recall, was about 60 feet. The treb finally failed after an afternoon of hurling folks into the river. So, this can be done without serious injury to the parties involved. Having already built a couple of trebs, this would be a really cool challenge. If I can find the URL for the treb this fellow built, I'll post it...ken

-- Ken Sklorenko (the3rdwits@yahoo.com), March 13, 2001.

And, here is the URL; http://www.trebuchet.com/articles/ron/trebuchet.html It seems that Ron, who did the human hurling treb, helped to build the treb that out hurled the Rusty Fellows pumkin chunker. Go to the site and check it out...ken

-- Ken Sklorenko (the3rdwits@yahoo.com), March 13, 2001.

http://www.thebullet.com/ ("Human Bullet" Dave Smith's site) He has fired himself across the Grand Canyon for "MTV's Extreme Acts Of Video" and also see; http://www.btinternet.com/~dafyddk/dscpics/trebuchet.htm A long html, but a good one. It's the "Dangerous Sports Club" site. Ron's home site is www.trebuchet.com and has pics and description of his people slinger as well as the JYW machines.

-- Waddy Thompson (cthomp3851@aol.com), March 13, 2001.

Rushing to build a machine from scrap... to launch some poor fool the farthest... sounds a bit risky in my book.

cheers,

-- Max (Maxel@inwindsor.com), March 13, 2001.

Max, Have your team expert ride it, he thought it up after all. ken

-- Ken Sklorenko (the3rdwits@yahoo.com), March 14, 2001.