Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
h a l f b a k e r y
Breakfast of runners-up.

idea: add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random

meta: news, help, about, links, report a problem

account: browse anonymously, or get an account and write.

user:
pass:
register,


         

Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register. Please log in or create an account.

Adaptive Flail

a flail that is shaped like one branch of a fractal
 
(0)
  [vote for,
against]

This is a flail that, instead of having three different parts, the stock, chain and ball, graduates in stiffness from the stock to the bulb, by a coefficient that just does not allow the bulb to hit any other part of the weapon. So, no matter how hard you swing this weaoon around the bulb never bumps into another part of the weapon. Depending on how bouncey it was it would have gyroscopic energy storing behavoir.
Private Boney Bunney, May 03 2013

derived from morning star mace Morning-star_20Mace_2e
[Private Boney Bunney, May 03 2013]

[link]






       My pedant nature wants to says "it's a morning star or morning star mace".   

       How about one with a Kinect (or open-source alternative) that fits on the spiky bit going around and weaves about to avoid hitting the wielder, but can still strike the wieldee.
not_morrison_rm, May 04 2013
  

       //like 'sword' or 'knife', or even 'gun'.   

       short sword, Bowie knife, machine gun...but then we get rapier, dagger and pistol, so we get straight noun and compound noun* versions.   

       From my computer's memory, the original title was "Adaptive_20Mace" but what does it know...   

       *Why is compound noun a compound noun?
not_morrison_rm, May 04 2013
  

       //Why is compound noun a compound noun// Because it is two separate words, rather than a pair of words compounded together (as in "flintlock", "fuckup" or "tombollockry").
MaxwellBuchanan, May 04 2013
  
      
[annotate]
  


 

back: main index

business  computer  culture  fashion  food  halfbakery  home  other  product  public  science  sport  vehicle