Posted by Rich Grise, but drunk on 03/26/06 01:39

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:12:59 -0500, Rick Merrill wrote:

> ...ong, arranged in a hexagon
>> with the longest one in the middle, and progressively shorter tubes as
>> you work your way out:
>>
>> (15)(14)(13)(12)
>> (16)(28)(27)(26)(11)
>> (17)(29)(35)(34)(25)(10)
>> (18)(30)(36)(33)(24)(09)
>> (01)(19)(31)(32)(23)(08)
>> (02)(20)(21)(22)(07)
>> (03)(04)(05)(06)
>>
>> Crap! I bothered to sit and draw that, and it turns out that the longest
>> tube has to be 37", but I'm way, way too lazy to redo it.
>>
>> (and it's hard to do hexagons in ASCII. ;-) )
>>
>>
> Nice drawing: real photo I saw was better tho.
>
> That's a GATLING GUN!


Oh, heavens no. A Gatling gun only has 6 (or maybe 8 or whatever) barrels,
around the hexagon (octagon, etc). I've seen the modern version - the
M-something or other, cal .50 machine gun that shoots 10 rounds a second.
It mounts in a pod, on the belly of a fighter plane. It's "blast cooled":
i.e., if you shoot it off when the airplain isn't going like 400 MPH, it
melts. (like on the parking apron. It also makes whatever was in front of
the airplane disappear.) It doesn't have a hammer - the rounds are fired
electrically.

My diagram is just a flawed front view of a shotgun mic. )-;

Thanks!
Rich
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