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  1. Pykrete has proven successful in my three low velocity attempts, however the question remains to be answered as to it's effectiveness at higher velocities. Any volunteers to test this? I will be unable to do so until I go to my dacha this weekend.

  2. Once again, YT has proven himself to truly be "The resourceful one."

    BTW, was this attempted on the Myth Busters?

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    FR-8 .308 Winchester

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    Entry

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    Penetration

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  3. I shall test this, hopefully I will have pictures within the next two hours.

    Please bear in mind I will not be using full loads, only primers. If this is successful, I'll up the ante a bit.

     

    One more edit: I'm even whipping up a block of half hearted ballistic gelatin, hopefully we're not all disappointed. :D

  4. Is there really that much weight savings between aluminum and ceramics or is it mostly doing away with the cooling system?

     

    Any weight reduction without the tendency of aluminum to warp would be welcomed.

  5. First of all' date=' I'm sorry if anyone thinks this is in the wrong topic. I looked at all the topics, and I couldn't decide because different people will have different opinions about this post. Some may believe that this is fictional, or related to religion. However, I believe that this really happened, so I consider it to be real science.

     

    Several years ago, there were a few teachers in an elevator at a college in Gettysburg. They went down into the basement for some reason. When the doors opened, they found themselves back in the Civil War! The basement was being used as a hospital. There were injured Civil War soldiers everywhere.

     

    The teachers pushed a button on the elevator and went back to the upper level. Then they went back down to the basement. When the doors opened, they saw nothing but storage boxes. No matter how many times they tried, they could not go back in time again.

     

    I have no reason to doubt that this story is true. I have been to Gettysburg, and I got real pictures of strange things with my own camera. Gettysburg is not a normal place. This is not religion that you can't find proof of. Any scientist can go to Gettysburg's battlefield at night and prove the existence of strange things in real science experiments.

     

    There is also no way that multiple people could imagine the same thing and be able to describe the events in detail. This was a group of teachers, not a group of students that could be trying to get attention. Some of the teachers actually quit their jobs after this event.

     

    Now, how would you scientifically explain this?[/quote']

     

    Maybe it's just me, but I see this as a way to fuel the tourist trade. I've been to Gettysburg several times without incident. Of course there was that one time I saw groups of soldiers, but that was when ;) I was a reenactor.

  6. As if it weren't already stupid enough to try to say that DU is suitable for weapons the way we are using it, we probably won't be able to get it banned even because its potential use by terrorists is so painfully obvious.

     

    I would be a bit more concerned over the cesium-137 used to treat tumors than a few spent penetrators in Iraq. And let us not forget the americium in smoke detectors..... someone best get on the ball, lest they should fall into terrorist hands!!!!

     

    U.S. gov tells us not to believe such reports. OK then, they have a lot of people who don't do anything important. Send them out to take surveys and tell us how many healthy children were born to veterans who were exposed to DU.

     

    One that I know of, my daughter ;)

  7. do hell with american government

    I've seen the light! Where do I go to rescind my citizenship?

     

    FYI, these semi demonic government officials who appear to be Hell beant on destroying the enviornment have instituted a so called, "Green Ammo" program.

    Small arms program.

    There have also been talks of replacing DU penetrators with less effective tungsten.

  8. It's not a polycarbonate bullet, but a sabot for a standard 55 grain jacketed soft point. The use of a discarding sabot would put a completely unmarred projectile downrange. No striations from the rifleing= no way to prove the projectile was fired from a specific weapon.

  9. Most modern sabots, for sporting gun use, are injection molded from heat resistant polycarbonate plastic or nylon. These plastic compounds will resist temperatures up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit and are formed in one piece, with a recess for the base of the bullet and four to six fluted fingers at the front.

     

    Since Remington no longer produces factory ammo, here is a link for reloading supplies.

  10. Skipping the whole political quagmire, I'd like to throw out one tested idea... Slap a propane carb on say a chevy 350 and the heads off a 305 to raise compression. Then amazingly, the flash point of ethanol is only 180 degrees f, so it is quite simple to mate the fuel to the existing technology. BTW, my old scottsdale gets similar milage to a Honda Civic. Of course I'm still using evil Max-life motor oil....so I suppose I haven't totally defeated OPEC. I suppose I could stop being cheap and use synthetic though.

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