In an engineer with the ambition to shoot an arrow farther than anyone in history took aim at the record of feet While lying on his back on a salt flat he drew back the bowstring of his personally designed foot bow and prepared to launch the projectile to what he hoped would be a new record distance of more than a mile feet Taking a deep breath he let the arrow fly It didn rsquo t travel a mile In fact it traveled less than a foot mdash launching into his foot and causing considerable damage Ouch nbsp Sometimes
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