If that is made of glass, not too surprising. The center of the target was relatively soft, so instead of the glass breaking, it absorbed enough of the velocity to prevent that.
Compressibility of material, and all that Engineering rot. Studied it in Strength of Materials class.
Same principle of a 2×4 (or even a toothpick or straw) being stuck in something that would ordinarily break it, because it went in on-axis instead of sideways.Compression is sometimes interesting…
Besides everyone analysing it, does anyone else get like the “Monty Python Random Shit” vibe about that? Like “Here’s a stump, and a back yard………….. WHACK!!!……. here’s a random glass now embedded in the stump.”
Didn’t say it wasn’t fun, BC, just explaining how it works. You outta see some really slo-mo pictures of stuff, like a million frames/sec picture of bullets hitting a target. Fascinating, especially watching the target react!
Camera jump gives it away.
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Potato cannon with non-biodegradable ammo?
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If that is made of glass, not too surprising. The center of the target was relatively soft, so instead of the glass breaking, it absorbed enough of the velocity to prevent that.
Compressibility of material, and all that Engineering rot. Studied it in Strength of Materials class.
Same principle of a 2×4 (or even a toothpick or straw) being stuck in something that would ordinarily break it, because it went in on-axis instead of sideways.Compression is sometimes interesting…
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Besides everyone analysing it, does anyone else get like the “Monty Python Random Shit” vibe about that? Like “Here’s a stump, and a back yard………….. WHACK!!!……. here’s a random glass now embedded in the stump.”
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Didn’t say it wasn’t fun, BC, just explaining how it works. You outta see some really slo-mo pictures of stuff, like a million frames/sec picture of bullets hitting a target. Fascinating, especially watching the target react!
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Slo-Mo bunker buster (slightly modified).
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Stuff like that is just flat fun to watch. And analyze, as well!
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Those guys at https://www.theboxotruth.com/ just went into terminal depression.
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