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[–] 36 points 4 months ago* (13 children)

This has to be so insanely expensive... I assume there are a ton of small machined or 3d printed channels or something to accomplish that?

Also how do they manage to have different notes play in sequence? A single chord shouldn't be too difficult but changing notes seems like it'd be very complicated without tiny valves or something...

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  • [–] 47 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Without any further reading, I'm assuming each bullet is tuned to play a certain note, and you play the national anthem by firing a bunch of them in sequence

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    u could get multiple notes in order out of em if they had a tracer base that unblocks more holes while burning off during flight

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Though that can only open more holes, right? It couldn't close the holes from earlier notes. Also, the cavity where the tracer material was would connect all the holes, which could affect their sound I think

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    hmmm yeah it can only open new holes, but by designig internal channels between the holes and using some sort of solid state valve design (tesla valve) it could mabe be possible to still do selective tones, at this point u build some sort of pneumatic logic gate so its probably touring compatible.

    Doom on a bullet, when?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    I mean there are pneumatic logic gates but I was thinking they wouldn't want each bullet to be $1000 of intricate manufacturing (unless it's for the US military, in which case each bullet is $10000 of intricate manufacturing.)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    You could in theory make a channel with a bunch of different stable whistle frequencies, and add some other aerodynamic feature that kicks it through them. I doubt you could reasonably do more than a few notes that way, though, and you probably have to hit them in order.

    More likely it's just multiple bullets, as the other reply said.

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  • [–] 22 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Get back to me when it plays the Benny Hill theme song.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    There's something fundamentally wrong with the USA, for real.

    Update: That said, it's a fake article. Silly dumb me.

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