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The trouble is that either the boomerang would need very accurate GPS or some kind of radio signal to order it to blow on return. The GPS is a washout - would you trust GPS with explosives? 
The radio signal is another problem in that it could be used by the targets, I guess (unless it is a UID of some form in which case what happens to your mates when you throw it over their heads?
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Then what about the obvious: a timer, the military still uses grenades right? Any grenade launchers ensure the grenade travels a certain distance before exploding.
I'm just saying, a person train in throwing one, could use the boomerang more effectively than a grenade. (to clear out enemies hiding behind barrier that blocks line of site conventional weapons).
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They have better ways of dealing with that nowadays.
They either go THROUGH said object and explode once it is past so many meters/etc or they go above it and explode.
Either are sufficient in dispatching those who would hide behind/inside things.
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I know, this would be handheld, much more portable than a grenade launcher (m32 or xm307) or similar artillery, and single person operational. The military still uses grenades right? The boomerang could serve the purpose of clearing a small space, too, by throwing lightly underhand.
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But it would be awkward in shape (i.e. hard to carry/stow) and would be unreliable in use as wind would play a bigger factor on its proper use.
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Andrew Rissing wrote: But it would be awkward in shape (i.e. hard to carry/stow)
It could fold up.
Andrew Rissing wrote: and would be unreliable in use as wind would play a bigger factor on its proper use.
But, but, there's never wind in videogames!
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Probably because no one has yet to put a boomerang weapon into one.
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I see what you did there!
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wizardzz wrote: throwing lightly underhand
Hey, that's not cricket!
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
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Well, I guess there is no real answer, as this boomerang question keeps coming back...
Sorry.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Someone had to do it. Why not you...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I'm guessing the C4 would throw off the flight of the boomerang, and it wouldn't make it far.
Now if you made it out of C4 / filled a boomerang shaped shell with C4, then it might be effective...
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Yeah, something more like a shell filled with explosives, something that would fragment and cause damage when the C4 inside explodes. The image on the link is for comedic effect I believe.
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The image fits the literal wording of the question pretty well I think, but perhaps not the spirit of it.
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True, but then again, the turbine on the rain gutter is not accurate either. Why is the turbine attached after the gutter curves outward, as opposed to free falling water? Where Mr. Wright? Why can't I find Mr. Wright?
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Outstanding!
My favorite is the C4 strapped to a boomerang.
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The way he computed the elctricity vs. rain is quite mysterious. Somehow, the quantity of falling water transforms into kWh, but how ? I assume it is simply the work value of the falling water weight turned 1 to 1 into electricty (which actually assumes a efficiency of 1 from the turbine).
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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You're right - it is a matter of energy transformation. The potential energy given up by the water in falling from roof height to ground level is transformed into electrical energy, less the losses in conversion. That's where it all falls down (pun intended). A rain gutter downspout is rarely a full pipe, if ever, and probably always a turbulent flow. Turbines are best operated using laminar flow, and even then are probably less than 70% efficient. I'd expect a conversion efficiency of less than 50% in the best of times, far less most of the time.
Will Rogers never met me.
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.. the need for gin.
Woot! My interview just finished. An hour on the blower to San Francisco. The job sounds dandy, the money is better than I made in the city and I'll be travelling a fair bit if I nail it.
Next is a technical test - around 3-5 hours 'coding challenge' that I'll do in a day or two. After that another telephone interview followed by a face to face in London or Dublin. Should I get an offer there'll be a 'terms interview' where they'll dot the i's and cross the t's. Then if I decided to accept it'll be four weeks training in SF before going on site as a shadow for another month.
The whole process from today to an offer could be over in as little as a week and they'd look to have me on in the new year.
I feel quite good now.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: The whole process from today to an offer could be over in as little as a week and they'd look to have me on in the new year.
Congrats!
Nagy Vilmos wrote: it'll be four weeks training in SF before going on site as a shadow for another month.
What are you training for, the Chinese astronaut program?
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: the Chinese astronaut program?
It's a tech lead , but all the work is on-site so I'll need to be super spiffy with their product before I'm released into the wild. :roar:
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Next is a technical test - around 3-5 hours 'coding challenge' that I'll do in a day or two.
If it takes you that long, I wouldn't celebrate yet. 
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The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I reckon I'll do it in two twenty minutes stints. First post it as a question in QA, then an hour later pick up Griff's solution. Simples.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Just don't depend on Albert this time! I think you made him upset last night.
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