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Ussnorway wrote
Trevor.Dennis wrote
A book was never going to stop that round. What on earth were they thinking?!
what could possibly go wrong?
The case inspired this person to do some testing with a Desert Eagle, but firing through two packs of A4 (10x8) printer paper, so 1000 pages of 80swg tightly packed paper.
Interestingly, the bullet does not make it all the way though, and the hollow point round he used spread out so much it was unable get completely though the second pack. Do we know what type of round Monalisa Perez used? Probably FMJ or even an AP! They appeared to be that stupid.
And to see what an armour piercing .50 caliber round can do fired from a Barrett M82
I always thought of the Barrett as a sniper rifle, but it was of course designed as an anti-material weapon intended to kill vehicles. Other than shotguns on the farm where I grew up, I have only ever fired a gun once in my life when a buddy persuaded me to go to the range with him in the UK, but I read a lot, and when I encounter hardware in a book, I like to pause and hit Google to find out about it.
BTW My lasting memory from my trip the range was not firing my mate's ex WWII Webley revolver, but of the person using a black powder pistol next to us. It was quite beautiful from an engineering view point, and after firing all six rounds, we could barely see each other through the smoke, yet alone the targets we were supposed to be firing at. To this day, I still wonder what it must have been like in the American Civil War with hundreds of pistols and a good few canons firing black powder.
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Ussnorway wrote
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I worked for a while in a department that dealt with the instrumentation of vehicles and components to measure and record test results, so my colleagues were supposedly technically competent. Which is why it surprised me one day, when a work mate asked how TV companies were able to assess how many people watched their programs. He thought — and he swears he was not winding me up — that it was by measuring how much signal was absorbed from the air, and by association, what signal strength they needed to broadcast.
Christmas cracker joke:
Q) What was the snowman doing in the carrot patch?
A) Picking his nose.
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Slightly exaggerated but not by much. New Years Celebrations from around the world.
A malted milk shake and ham sandwich cost 25 cents.
https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea wrote
A malted milk shake and ham sandwich cost 25 cents.
And the Fonz would restart the jukebox with nothing more than a stern look.
gener7 wrote
Google in the early days:
I can remember thinking that Google were cheeky upstarts butting in on Alta Vista and its Babel Fish translator. Then ISTR Ask Jeeves forcing itself on me, but it is a bit sketchy. Nowadays Google is like a magic trick, being not only unbelievably fast searching mind numbing amounts of data, but it has an amazingly clever search algorithm. It feels like it does not just search for the actual words you used, but applies a thesaurus to most of them to come with its extraordinarily effect fuzzy search. Are there other search engines that can do as well?
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