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by CrankyCanuck 1654 days ago
No, I don't think so. His design respects the inherent latency to accelerate a looooog set of elastics. Instead of stretching a set of elastics over a long distance, he uses a heavy bundle and stretches them over a short distance. It still takes a lot of effort to get that stretch, but all that energy is released extremely fast..as the elastics don't have to travel very far to do so.