Blowin' Up Stuff Real Good Agin Open Thread

No this is a new one.

This is interesting if you're into guns: The slow-motion guys fire a teeny-tiny pin gun at the back of a bullet to see if they can ignite the second bullet by hitting its primer with its teeny-tiny bullet. I say it's interesting because it turns out, without a barrel, and without a closed hammer at the back of the barrel to force all gas forwards, a bullet that's been sparked off by a hit on its butt isn't much of a projectile. One could say it's a damp squid.

Okay that was a teeny-tiny round. Here are some bigger ones.

.50 caliber fired into a ballistic head. BTW, a lot of these cause actual fire/light upon impact just due to the energy of impact.

I did link this a while back -- firing the .577 Tyrannosaur elephant gun at blocks of ballistic gel.

And he tests whether the .577 Tyrannosaur could stop an actual Tyrannosaurus Rex, firing it at a balilstic head in the shape of a Tyrannosaurus's.

A nock volley gun is a multi-barrel rifle designed to shoot an entire volley of bullets with one shot. This particular volley gun is called "The Kraken," and has seven barrels each firing a .61 caliber round. Apparently it's based on a gun used in shipboard combat-- you'd fire it from the crow's nest down to the decks.

It's a big gun with a lot of recoil.

A howitzer shell fired at a ballistic torso. And then, that tank shell fired at a ballistic head.

A tank shell fired at a ballistic torso.

In this clip, they fire an RPG-7 (rocket propelled grenade, which isn't really what it stood for, but that has been made up as a retronym to explain the Russian initials) at a ballistic torso. In the first hit, the grenade doesn't detonate, because it passes through the torso quickly enough that its detonation mechanism doesn't detect it as an actual stop/hit. So they put some cinderblocks behind the torso, and make the detonator more sensitive, and blow it up real good.

Firing bowling balls out of a cannon:

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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1 I'll fetch em

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 06:22 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Obviously this is a chess thread.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2026 06:24 PM (diia5)

3 One could say it's a damp squid.

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"Go on!"

/obligatory Kurt Eichenwald

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 06:25 PM (xU6sC)

4 Blowin' Up Stuff Real Good Agin Open Thread
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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So... a GAINZZZ thread?

Posted by: Axeman at April 17, 2026 06:26 PM (Fi81e)

5 Firing bowling balls out of a cannon:

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Make Trebuchets Great Again!

/We've been re-watching the (soft-core) TV series Spartacus -- and they just featured a great scene with trebuchets.

Posted by: ShainS at April 17, 2026 06:27 PM (xU6sC)

6 You had me at 'into guns'

And now on topic, Glock is selling 15 round g44 and g43x/g48 magazines now. They're metal but supposedly don't require new magazine catches.

Took them fucking long enough.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 17, 2026 06:32 PM (xcxpd)

7 Throw your TV out the window and it can be an homage to SCTV thread.

Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up for the win!

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at April 17, 2026 06:32 PM (5yDGQ)

8 I'm now on a Mojo Nixon run

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 06:32 PM (gKWVE)

9 8 I'm now on a Mojo Nixon run
Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 06:32 PM (gKWVE)

And now I want to listen to the Dead Milkmen...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 17, 2026 06:33 PM (xcxpd)

10 I love Scott’s laugh

Posted by: Accomack at April 17, 2026 06:34 PM (8jVAy)

11 Hey ace,

You do know weasel hosts a gun thread every Sunday at 7pm. We talk a LOT about things that go BOOM. You should join us sometime. It would be a blast!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 06:34 PM (763Um)

12 Yeah, no thanks on guns that kill on one end and maim on the other.

Posted by: JROD at April 17, 2026 06:35 PM (IlL6s)

13 Friday Night Gub Thread? I want pie all a suddenly.

Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2026 06:37 PM (LHPAg)

14 That going to leave a mark.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2026 06:37 PM (Sen1F)

15 I'll stick with some 5.56 M855 for penetration. I've got a lot of this. Not too accurate though.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 06:38 PM (abIsI)

16 Boom chika chika boom

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 17, 2026 06:38 PM (LmPA0)

17 Mojo did write the hit song "Put a Sex Mo-Sheen in the White House" appearing on the album Otis, which lead directly to the election of Bill Clinton.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 17, 2026 06:39 PM (eOFY+)

18
Blowin' Up Stuff Real Good Agin Open Thread
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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So... a GAINZZZ thread?
Posted by: Axeman

I'm stuck at 210 pounds now for #twoweeks. BP is doing very well though. This morning it was 121/76, and my fasting blood suger was 97. Upping my protein i take to 120grams and hoping to break through this plateau and start losing again.

*sigh*

It'll be hard to ignore the brat wurst food truck at the zz top concert tomorrow evening.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 17, 2026 06:39 PM (QVmho)

19 And now on topic, Glock is selling 15 round g44 and g43x/g48 magazines now. They're metal but supposedly don't require new magazine catches.

Took them fucking long enough.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo
I agree.

I fell into a deal last year for a bunch of Magpul 15 and 17 round mags. So far so good. No issues.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 06:40 PM (abIsI)

20 Open Source Intel
@Osint613
REPORTER: Iran is going to execute four more protesters, including the first woman protester. What do you tell Iran?

TRUMP: Tell that to the Pope

https://tinyurl.com/7fwsptr5

Ouch.
I guess he made his point there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 17, 2026 06:40 PM (6ydKt)

21 17 Mojo did write the hit song "Put a Sex Mo-Sheen in the White House" appearing on the album Otis, which lead directly to the election of Bill Clinton.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper

*lifts an eyebrow*

Posted by: Grover Cleveland at April 17, 2026 06:41 PM (gKWVE)

22 It'll be hard to ignore the brat wurst food truck at the zz top concert tomorrow evening.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 17, 2026 06:39 PM (QVmho)
I had bratwurst, potato salad, and baked beans. And pie, of course. I'll have to dig up some ZZ Top.

Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2026 06:45 PM (LHPAg)

23 I had bratwurst, potato salad, and baked beans. And pie, of course. I'll have to dig up some ZZ Top.
Posted by: Eromero

And you’re 6”6 and 120 # soaking wet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 06:48 PM (NbwYI)

24 The way things are going it kinda makes you long for the days when Reagan could count on Thatcher and John Paul II, and vice versa.

Starmer and Leo are no match for those two.

Hell, even Tony Blair was there for W. in Iraq.
And John Paul II kept out of it.

Pope Leo acts like his predecessors not only approved of wars against apostates and Muslims, but they also called for quite a few Crusades several hundred years ago.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 17, 2026 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

25
I just saw that JPL had to shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to conserve power. The power source is a plutonium RTG and output is slowly and inexorably decreasing.

This leaves only 3 instruments still running. They set up a priority list of which instruments to try to keep running to the last, and they're down to the last 3 on the list now. They're going to try some trick to squeeze more useful life out of it, but it's dangerous, and they're going to try it on Voyager 2 first, which still has more power.

Voyager 1 is about 160 AU out, or about 15 billion miles. One-way light travel time is around 23 hours now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 06:52 PM (w6EFb)

26
I forget, what year is it Voyager returns to try to destroy earth?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 06:53 PM (w6EFb)

27 Willowed:

If Spider-man: Brand New Day does well (and it obviously will) then it MIGHT give Doomsday a boost. There are a lot of former MCU fanboys like me that sat out the woke era but would return to mainline a little original cast nostalgia.

Posted by: Max Power at April 17, 2026 06:53 PM (q177U)

28 Made pizza with fresh oregano and pepperoni, very good

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 06:54 PM (Ia/+0)

29 oops.

^^did not approve

Been sick all week.
Finally at the point I could pick up the tablet and catch up on some Ace & Horde.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 17, 2026 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

30 26
I forget, what year is it Voyager returns to try to destroy earth?
Posted by: publius

2273.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 06:54 PM (FdWkT)

31 Dillon Aero M-134D

https://tinyurl.com/mxhxk8wf

Made by the same family that own Dillon Precision.
(The reloading equipment company)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 06:55 PM (jVhuA)

32 Vger returned in 2378 according to AI.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 17, 2026 06:56 PM (6ydKt)

33 Blowed up good, real good.
/obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 06:58 PM (RIvkX)

34 lol.

Thats the USS Voyager in 2378.

nurse got it.

I thought it was off by a century, but went with it anyhow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 17, 2026 06:58 PM (6ydKt)

35 I forget, what year is it Voyager returns to try to destroy earth?
Posted by: publius

2273.
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 06:54 PM (FdWkT)
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According to Grok, Voyager 1 will only be 1,000 AU from Earth by the year 2273, which is 98 billion miles, or 1.7% of 1 light year.

Still within our cosmic neighborhood.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2026 06:59 PM (gnNyN)

36 Wow, Stormy Daniels now looks like a bloated mutant tranny sex doll . TRUMP!!! curse hit her hard.

Posted by: fd at April 17, 2026 06:59 PM (reci6)

37 They're going to try some trick to squeeze more useful life out of it, but it's dangerous, and they're going to try it on Voyager 2 first, which still has more power.

Voyager 1 is about 160 AU out, or about 15 billion miles. One-way light travel time is around 23 hours now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 06:52 PM (w6EFb)

Absolutley mnd-blowing what those guys can do. 15 BILLION miles away.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at April 17, 2026 06:59 PM (iNp3L)

38 Time to try to hold down some soup.
Enjoy your evening everybody.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 17, 2026 07:00 PM (6ydKt)

39 The high-speed videos show why invading America would be a bad idea.

General: "How did the assault go, Comrade Captain?"

Captain: "Well, sir, the enemy bowled a three-platoon average of 205...."

Posted by: PabloD at April 17, 2026 07:00 PM (zUFRX)

40 Voyager 1 is about 160 AU out, or about 15 billion miles. One-way light travel time is around 23 hours now.
Posted by: publius

So it hasn't even been gone a light day.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 07:01 PM (jVhuA)

41 25 I just saw that JPL had to shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to conserve power.

This leaves only 3 instruments still running.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 06:52 PM (w6EFb)

Sad they had to shut off one of the instruments, hopefully the trick to get more life works.

Posted by: Joemarine at April 17, 2026 07:01 PM (y171U)

42 When I was about 12 years old, I would occasionally wrap a bit of Jetex fuse around a .22 LR, set it on a rock, light fuse, and run. Don't think that I ever found any remains.

Life was different then.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:01 PM (XeU6L)

43
*points*
*donald southerland scream from body snatchers*

Trekies.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at April 17, 2026 07:02 PM (QVmho)

44 Been sick all week.
Finally at the point I could pick up the tablet and catch up on some Ace & Horde.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Sorry to hear that you have been ill. Are you in recovery stage?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:04 PM (XeU6L)

45 >> Still within our cosmic neighborhood.

Not even close to the outer Oort Cloud, thought to be from 20K - 100K AU out. That's the limit of Sol's gravitational influence.

The Oort Cloud is funny. Never been observed, and probably won't be for a long time, yet it just *has to be there* to explain long period comets.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 07:05 PM (w6EFb)

46 31 Dillon Aero M-134D

https://tinyurl.com/mxhxk8wf

Made by the same family that own Dillon Precision.
(The reloading equipment company)
Posted by: rickb223

I want one of those to mount in the bed of my truck.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 07:05 PM (abIsI)

47 the plot, she THICKENS!

"Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf sends response to Donald Trump:

1- The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were false.
2- They did not win the war with these lies, and they will certainly not get anywhere in negotiations either.
3- With the continuation of the blockade, the Strait of Hormuz will not remain open.
4- Passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be conducted based on the "designated route" and with "Iranian authorization."
5- Whether the Strait is open or closed and the regulations governing it will be determined by the field, not by social media.
6- Media warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of war, and the Iranian nation is not affected by these tricks. Read the real and accurate news of the negotiations in the recent interview of the Foreign Ministry spokesman."

Who posted this? Ghalibaf's pansy in the US ?

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2026 07:06 PM (GD0B3)

48 I had bratwurst, potato salad, and baked beans. And pie, of course. I'll have to dig up some ZZ Top.
Posted by: Eromero
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Possibly some Tums.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:06 PM (XeU6L)

49 I'm only a Trekkie for TOS, DS9, and some of TNG. Enterprise was OK, but I could take it or leave it.

Posted by: PabloD at April 17, 2026 07:06 PM (zUFRX)

50 Enterprise was kind of good.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2026 07:08 PM (GD0B3)

51 48 I had bratwurst, potato salad, and baked beans. And pie, of course. I'll have to dig up some ZZ Top.
Posted by: Eromero
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Possibly some Tums.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Gas-X

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 07:08 PM (abIsI)

52 You know who else had bratwurst.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 17, 2026 07:09 PM (eOFY+)

53 This week was like end of July, today more like a warm Spring day. Very nice out now

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 07:09 PM (Ia/+0)

54 Dillon Aero M-134D

https://tinyurl.com/mxhxk8wf

Posted by: rickb223

I want one of those to mount in the bed of my truck.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Screw the truck...I renew my oft-voiced desire for an Ontos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:10 PM (XeU6L)

55 I approve of the new AOSHQ with two weekly gun threads.

And ace, you make a key point about small arms ammo ignited in some fashion outside the situation for which it's designed - in a chamber, with a barrel on the business end.

A fire chiefs' association video some years back tested the reaction of ammo to fire. They used various set-ups and scenarios. As I recall, the most powerful squib ignition they got was considered no hazard to firefighters in their standard turnouts.

I should really go look it up and post the link.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2026 07:10 PM (U/Byj)

56 You do know weasel hosts a gun thread every Sunday at 7pm. We talk a LOT about things that go BOOM. You should join us sometime. It would be a blast!
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2026 06:34 PM

ISWYDT.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2026 07:10 PM (Wnv9h)

57 Guy Fieri the food guy is being cancelled. His crime? He dared to say hello to Andrew Tate at a MMA fight. Instead of telling the online blue hairs to fuck off, he of course groveled and apologized.

Woke is not dead my friends. Not by a long shot.

Posted by: Heroq at April 17, 2026 07:11 PM (b4qzS)

58 Gas-X
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Beano

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:11 PM (XeU6L)

59 Healey Wife has banned all things cabbage and beans from the home.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 07:11 PM (abIsI)

60 Iran seems to be implying they won andxwho is allowed through the straight, thats really more like a dog leg

Posted by: Skip at April 17, 2026 07:12 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Every day feels like Saturday to me since I retired, except Sunday. Medical appointments seem to be increasing though.

Posted by: Eromero at April 17, 2026 07:12 PM (LHPAg)

62 Stormy Daniels... TRUMP!!! curse hit her hard.
Posted by: fd at April 17, 2026 06:59 PM (reci6)

well I'm not jumping on that grenade

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 07:12 PM (gKWVE)

63 Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomyot

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 07:13 PM (3uBP9)

64 Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/377uvzcj

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2026 07:13 PM (U/Byj)

65 The behavior of a firearm cartridge ignited without being confined to a chamber and barrel is just a matter of inertia.

The bullet has much more mass than the lightweight brass cartridge casing, thus the bullet tends to stay right where it is and the light casing goes zipping away harmlessly.

Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2026 07:13 PM (oqH4h)

66 pixy didn't like the cyrillic version

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 07:14 PM (3uBP9)

67 "hand-carried anti-tank grenade launcher"

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2026 07:14 PM (U/Byj)

68 Gas-X
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Beano
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Fiber.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 17, 2026 07:14 PM (diia5)

69
The ability to receive a signal, not to mention transmit back to Voyager 1 at that distance is also amazing. That's the DSN, Deep Space Network, with those huge dishes.

I read something about the signal strengths involved there. First, the X and S-bands were chosen because there's very little background cosmic noise on those frequencies.

But still, and don't hold me to this exactly, the signal strength is like detecting a flashlight in LA from NY (straight line equivalent distance, I'm not sayin the earth is flat...).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 07:14 PM (w6EFb)

70 Ace does a gun thread?

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2026 07:14 PM (yAteE)

71 Every day feels like Saturday to me since I retired, except Sunday. Medical appointments seem to be increasing though.
Posted by: Eromero
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I cannot make a Dr.'s appointment without checking to see if it will interfere with some other doc's appointment.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:14 PM (XeU6L)

72 >>Woke is not dead my friends. Not by a long shot.

Evil never dies. It takes a different form when forced but it never dies.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 17, 2026 07:15 PM (viF8m)

73 70 Ace does a gun thread?
Posted by: Ben Had

First horseman of the apocalypse?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 07:16 PM (abIsI)

74 Tate is not a rapist, human trafficker, and criminal gang leader? Tate is a muslim, and an adheres to Sharia. Fuck Andrew Tate and his brother.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2026 07:16 PM (GD0B3)

75 San Franpsycho has Cyrillic privilege and posts in it easily.

I've never mastered this art and so limit my russki stuff to phonetic transliterations.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2026 07:16 PM (U/Byj)

76 This is interesting if you're into guns...

Bwahahahaha!!!!
Guns???
On this site???

Posted by: Diogenes at April 17, 2026 07:17 PM (2WIwB)

77 and the light casing goes zipping away harmlessly.
Posted by: ballistic
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More likely, ruptures. Weasel should do some experiments and report.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L)

78 Guy Fieri the food guy is being cancelled. His crime? He dared to say hello to Andrew Tate at a MMA fight. Instead of telling the online blue hairs to fuck off, he of course groveled and apologized.

Woke is not dead my friends. Not by a long shot.
Posted by: Heroq

But Guy is. AFAIC.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 17, 2026 07:17 PM (jVhuA)

79 Did you know that, according to Tate, ishlam is the last true religion ? of course it is, it lets you fuck 9 year olds. with father's permission of course. No such requirement for 11 year old.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2026 07:18 PM (GD0B3)

80 I see Paul was released from rehab again. Stay straight this time Paul.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 07:18 PM (abIsI)

81 Publius - yeah, I'm thrilled when I can hit Japan or Europe using 5 watts of power, but hitting the Earth with 23 watts (per Google) from over 15 billion miles is almost unbelievable.

Posted by: PabloD at April 17, 2026 07:18 PM (zUFRX)

82 Mike H., see my link above. Most ammo sort of pops, unburnt powder oozes out. ballistic is correct in his analysis above, but also playing a part is that the brass case, unconstrained by any chamber, expands enough to absorb a lot of the energy from powder ignition.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2026 07:19 PM (U/Byj)

83 More likely, ruptures. Weasel should do some experiments and report.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2026 07:17 PM (XeU6L)
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Eh, sometimes, but the weakest link is the press-fit between case and bullet, so it tends to fail first.

Posted by: ballistic at April 17, 2026 07:19 PM (oqH4h)

84 This is a fun conversation with Rev. David French:

https://tinyurl.com/3dp8hae7

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at April 17, 2026 07:20 PM (eOFY+)

85 I would once again enjoy a distinct advantage in Guy's situation, not really knowing who the Tate guys are, or what they look like. The joys of being insulated from 93% of pop culture.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 17, 2026 07:20 PM (U/Byj)

86 One of my soldiers got shot when we were going past a burning warehouse with ammo cooking off inside. I always assumed he got shot by one of the rounds, but someone pointed out to me later that when the cartridge cooks off outside a barrel, the bullet is much heavier than the shell casing, so it's the shell casing that flies, and it doesn't fly very far. So he actually probably did get shot by a bad guy.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 17, 2026 07:21 PM (eStot)

87 81 Publius - yeah, I'm thrilled when I can hit Japan or Europe using 5 watts of power, but hitting the Earth with 23 watts (per Google) from over 15 billion miles is almost unbelievable.
Posted by: PabloD

Last week I made a QRP contact with Japan using 2 watts
on my 17M vertical. 559 b/w. I was floored.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 17, 2026 07:22 PM (abIsI)

88 "This is interesting if you're into guns: The slow-motion guys fire a teeny-tiny pin gun at the back of a bullet to see if they can ignite the second bullet by hitting its primer with its teeny-tiny bullet..."

I was about 12 when I tried that with .22 bullets. Stuck a bullet nose into a board and shot the back of it with a .22 rifle. Everything just disappeared with a bang.

Riding home I noticed a hole in my shirt. Looked and saw a small C shaped hole in my belly. Whatever is was is still in there.

Posted by: javems at April 17, 2026 07:22 PM (zFsEm)

89 @rhomboid -- good to see you. You and I made almost the same point (82 and 86). Horde mind!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 17, 2026 07:22 PM (eStot)

90 Worst ballistics affect I ever saw?
Firing 105 mm beehive rounds and the base plate carved a perfect half moon as it passed through a...ummm...torso.
Effective.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 17, 2026 07:23 PM (2WIwB)

91 Вы звонили?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2026 07:24 PM (RIvkX)

92 I can just see poor T-Rex cringing. 🦖

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 17, 2026 07:25 PM (NFX2v)

93 Cafe is open! Drinks are on the house.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 17, 2026 07:25 PM (yAteE)

94 So coach Vrabel and I locked fingers. Big deal, so what. I lock my fingers around a lot of my sources' dicks, just as all my sources lock their fingers around my big tits. It's a media firestorm because other reporters are jealous of my inside info, and they wish they were my sources enjoying my fingers locked around their dicks.

Posted by: Dianna Russini at April 17, 2026 07:25 PM (Q+gd/)

95

NJ’s new congresswoman Analilia Mejia is a darling of the left — and comparisons to socialist Zohran Mamdani are already flowing

She is likely to face her defeated Republican rival, Joe Hathaway, again in November for the right to represent the 11th District for a full two-year term. It would be her fourth election in nine months.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 17, 2026 07:26 PM (Cqx++)

96 Riding home I noticed a hole in my shirt. Looked and saw a small C shaped hole in my belly. Whatever is was is still in there.
Posted by: javems at April 17, 2026 07:22 PM (zFsEm)

And you still haven't told your mom, huh???

Posted by: Diogenes at April 17, 2026 07:26 PM (2WIwB)

97 Dinner is being served in the cafe, attacking piggies, too!

Posted by: Piper at April 17, 2026 07:26 PM (p4NUW)

98 Looked and saw a small C shaped hole in my belly. Whatever is was is still in there. Posted by: javems at April 17, 2026 07:22 PM (zFsEm)

My dad carried a piece of a German bullet around in his solar plexus from 1945 to 1989. It wasn't life threatening so he got triaged back to duty after a brief stay in the field hospital.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 17, 2026 07:27 PM (eStot)

99
Some of the recovery operations the JPL and other guys have done remotely with spacecraft millions of miles away is also amazing.

Read on what happened with SOHO, the solar observatory probe at L1 that provides those cool LASCO images and solar wind and storm info. That thing is still going well past it's planned operational life.

When it first got on station, something malfunctioned with the gryos and the spacecraft ended up spinning out of control, in some emergency mode. The spacecraft was nearly lost.

They used the big dishes at Arecibo and Goldstone -- interplanetary radar to determine the position and attitude of the spacecraft. Imagine that. A flyspeck floating about 1 million miles from earth, and they're able to determine the attitude and spin rate. From that info, they were able to come up with a plan to send commands and get the thing back up and running.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 17, 2026 07:29 PM (w6EFb)

100 So slightly related, I live on an old long rang artillery site, specifically the target.

December of last year I get a letter in the mail from the Army and the Gov notifying me that my property has been declared a superfund site. Interesting, ... wasn't informed of that before closing.

Anyway, they built an army camp north of ATL in the 20s timeframe to muster Americans for deployment to EU. Then around the 40s they turned it into an artillery training, ammo storage/handling site. That's not where I live, that was turned into a tiny municipal airport. But from that site they were training by firing straight southeast towards ATL, and specifically at the small mountain-hill my property is at. So the danger is unexploded excitement.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 07:30 PM (3uBP9)

101 At least French had the guts to show up and air out his thoughts to a real interviewer.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2026 07:32 PM (gKWVE)

102 nood

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Posted by: banana Dream at April 17, 2026 07:34 PM (3uBP9)

103 "In the first hit, the grenade doesn't detonate, because it passes through the torso quickly enough that its detonation mechanism doesn't detect it as an actual stop/hit."

IIRC that's what happened to Tammy Duckworth in her UH-60. Also somebody in one of the trucks in Mogadishu had a round stuck in him that didn't explode.

Heard a story about an NVA soldier that they brought into the aid station with a live unexploded 40mm round in him. The doc in charge moved him out far away from the aid station and let him bleed out, then called EOD.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at April 17, 2026 07:37 PM (eStot)

104 December of last year I get a letter in the mail from the Army and the Gov notifying me that my property has been declared a superfund site. Interesting, ... wasn't informed of that before closing....
But from that site they were training by firing straight southeast towards ATL, and specifically at the small mountain-hill my property is at. So the danger is unexploded excitement.

It would be interesting to know how (or if!) they searched for unexploded ordinance. That can be a big deal, because of all the scrap iron in the ground. AFAIK, the best way to find it is via a towed array of squid magnetometers connected to a GPS system.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2026 09:14 PM (Riz8t)

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