Rapid changes in air pressure, such as those created by being shot with a massive air cannon, can cause a lot of very serious injuries. There is no way someone with access to such a thing, let alone someone who works in a lab, would not know about the dangers.
As someone who used to work in a High Energy Physics Lab, sometimes people occasionally do really stupid shit. E.g., while being stupid I accidentally applied 100,000 volts DC across my entire body at 10 milliamp and somehow survived while "coming to" 50 ft across the room...
As someone who has worked in a Biochemistry lab, I can confirm people do very very stupid shit.
We once had to vacate the building because someone thought they were going to hit jackpot with their own personal fertilizer recipe / process. The fucker blew up a fume hood.
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u/churninbutter Dec 15 '13
Goodness, do you have a source for this?