Pulling the Cylinder Basepin

Humans are , despite our fantasies, slow, weak, and pretty unassuming. When compared to other animals, we have few real virtues-our ability to use and invent tools being perhaps the most important. Sometimes employing the simplest tool to accomplish a goal is the most brilliant.

It's fun to see somebody come up with a simple idea to solve a problem. I got a couple of base pin pullers with my sixguns.
MAK, are you a closet physicist? Not many people have ever heard of string theory.
 
Mike

...Discovery channel's "Through the Wormhole" (with Morgan Freeman) and you too can be a "closet physicist"!

His place is across the road from mne. I'm surprised he was chosen to narrate that.
Mike

"Many Worlds Interpretation" person, myself...  This is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction, but denies the actuality of wavefunction colapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternative histories and futures are real—each representing an actual "world" (or "universe"). It is also referred to as the relative state formulation, the Everett interpretation, the theory of the universal wavefunction, many-universes interpretation, or just many worlds.
 
If you want to gain and understanding of it, a couple of good reads are The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan, and The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove.  Both are, of course, science fiction works on alternative histories...  But the plot lines and details are written such that they help one comprehend MWI theory.  Plus, they are really good reads involving the injection of modern technology into the past.  In Proteus, imagine trying to get someone from 1940 to believe you are from the future...  How do you do it?  Well, in this instance, they give Winston Churchill a nice 1980's vintage Texas Instruments calculator...  or in Guns of the South, picture Robert E. Lee witnessing a weapons demonstration of an AK-47, and then being told that the personell are on hand to teach the folks down in Birmingham, AL how to manufacture this self-loading rifle and the ammunition it uses...  In both books, the reader is shown how just even the slightest change in detail can have tremendous effect.
 
So, okay...  I guess I sound pretty much like a science nerd now...  But you see, on a college campus in the early eighties (and still to this day), the book stores didn't carry hardly anything that was truly centered on firearms.  They were too busy trying to indoctrinate fresh little gun-grabbing liberals.  (THEY DIDN'T GET ME!!! - HA, HA!!!)  But both of these books (paperbacks) had guns on the front covers - so I bought them and read them.  Hey, at least there were guns in this science fiction stuff!
 
String theory to pull a base pin?  Absolutely!  String Theory quantum mechanics?  Baaahhhh!!!
 
Hope you folks are having a great night!  ;-)
Mike 

This is what happens in quantum mechanics, you start a string thread and it grows into a physics lesson. I'm a fan of Michio Kaku- Physics of the Impossible. Now that is something you can only find here on this forum. Keep up the good work guys and try to get some shooting in too. Chris

This is what happens when you try to be inventive or try to change the way things get done...  You might as well take a baseball bat to a hornets' nest - 'cause things are gonna get stirred up!
 
Non-thinking people have been buggering up base pins for years with a pair of pliers out of their tackle box, and then you have to go and show 'em something like this.  You're gonna put a bunch of people that make base pins out of work, further contributing to the economic woes of our country, and then their company won't be buying anymore steel, and then what few steel mills we have left are gonna have to shut down because of a lack of buyers...  Then the towns that those steel mills are located in will start to suffer because everyone is too tight with what little money they have left, and other businesses will have to close...  Due to a lack of tax revenue, the cities will have to cut services and the people will be left without any law enforcement or other essential services.  IT WILL BE ANARCHY!  ANARCHY, I TELL YOU!  PANIC IN THE STREETS AND TOTAL MADNESS!!! 
 
and all because of your little piece of string...  Now aren't you ashamed of yourself for coming up with such a revolutionary idea?  :-)
 
Mike
 
PS:  I added a small hank of packaging twine to my range bag today....   Well....  You know....  You never can tell when you might need to ship a package from the range or something...   :-D
 
 

In another of the "Many Worlds" of the many worlds theory...  everyone ignored your post and said to themselves "That guy must have never heard of the "Acme Stuck Base Pin Puller for Believers in Michio Kaku".
 
Dad gum...  I'm too tired to think about this stuff anymore...  It's making my brain hurt...  Good night folks...
 
Mike
 

Nice tip Chris.
Thanks
Frank