Phineaz

That's what you normally do with chain shot. Unless that was the joke, of course.

Thing is, the cannon ball IS the pressure valve. And since one of them will invariably go faster than the other one, the whole thing will be even less unpredictable with one half of the chain still in the barrel

I think it was due to someone gossiping about that, but yeah that’s the only unpleasent background I could find in that article. The paragraph even ends on a positive note. I just dislike it if people throw around a source as an argument without constructing their argument.

I have read it and it is not clear to me what exactly you wish to say. Now, personally I don’t care but if you were to elaborate on what you mean I would read and maybe understand your argument.

Do you care to elaborate?