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more about #bullets more comments → billwilljr: "I have no idea why those bad boys aren't illegal" - Sounds like a liberal to me. The old, if I'm scared of it and know very little about it, lets ou... more » psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!: I suppose this is where the NASA engineers got the idea of shooting the moon, just to get a cloud of shit to fly out. more » Strongmad86: hollowpoints (or at least some kind of expanding round- soft points, plastic tipped rounds, and cast lead all meet that requirement) are actually requ... more » dparkermartin: Actually, a person is arguably more likely to die from a non-hollow point, full metal jacket, bullet due to the fact that the bullet pierces straight ... more » earthsaver: I think 1 million frames per second would be extremely fast and impossible to see without slowing down. Are you sure you didn't mean some fraction of ... more » gunluva is prepared to drop.: Watched the whole thing with The Beatles album "A Hard Day's Night" in the background. It fits, oddly enough. more » BlowfishAvenger: I'm not sure the bullet seen at 7:30 is a hollow point. more » Korgoths: In the US hollow point bullets are not illegal. I bought 100 rounds two weekends ago. I even have 400 rounds of black talons which they no longer impo... more » van_line: i don't think hollow point bullets are illegal, but what do i know. more » Bertone77: What was going on at about 2min? It looked like they actually shot a steel pellet AT the bullet while it was in flight!? Holy Crap! Oh and last I che... more » nikedabomb: awesome , now lets see someone shoot a rocket at the moon, oh wait ..... more » Purple Dave: Give it to the grinder-belly "Will It Float" girl on Letterman, use it as a frisbee over concrete, and take it to the batting cage. You know, just bec... more » NotSoSiniSter: that thing is morbidly OBESE!! OMG stop going to McDonalds. more » Weihovah: they should've tested this against a snow leopard, not a tiger more » omarabuhashish: Is it me or is it really bad for that Tigers teeth to be chewing on that? Wheres PETA when they are actually useful? Wait they never are? more » -
#slowmotion
Watch Ten Minutes of Glorious Bullet Impacts at 1,000,000 FPS
I'm no warmonger, but I can think of no finer way to waste Friday afternoon than spending 10 minutes of the company's time watching bullets striking various objects at one million frames per second. The footage is just totally unbelievable. More » -
#toughbook
Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots
Most of us have no need for Panasonic's Toughbook-30: Its specs are unremarkable and the 13.3-inch laptop weighs over 8 pounds. But then, our mortal laptops could never survive the ridiculous, almost cartoony beating Forbes gave it. More » -
#weapons
Army Stops Making 'Eco-Friendly' Tungsten Bullets Because They Cause Cancer
The Army's tungsten-based bullets were designed to be more eco-friendly, but research showing tungsten increases cancer risk pushed them to pull the plug. The problem, Danger Room points out, is that tungsten munitions are everywhere. More » -
#bulletproofhair
Woman's Hair Weave May Have Stopped Bullet
Say what? A Kansas City woman with a tight weave gets shot at by her boyfriend through a car window. Later, the cops find a spent bullet in her hair. Did the hair stop it? More » -
#crime
Fingerprinting a Bullet the Bond Way
Well, the John Bond way that is. Bond, the head of forensics at the Northamptonshire Police in the UK, has devised a way to fingerprint bullets with electricity. More » -
