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Pumpkin launchers hope to set world record in Utah

Delaware : DE : USA | about 1 month ago  
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The team's 90-foot, compressed-air cannon arrived by truck in Moab on Tuesday. Later this week, they're hoping to launch a 10-pound pumpkin more than 5,000 feet using a cannon barrel made out of aluminum irrigation pipe, a powerful air compression system and calculations based on computer modeling....
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