 Gun vs Sword, Katana vs .50 MG, showdown in 2005 |
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 Jan 2 2005, 10:42 PM
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Immoral Elf  Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486  |
I wasn't aware that this was a humor-only thread. :please: |
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Jan 2 2005, 10:43 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,428 Joined: 9-June 02 Member No.: 2,860 |
I apologize. The next time :D I'm confronted by a humorous internet :D video that I've seen four or five times before, I'll plaster smiley faces all over my post. Then :D I'll go through my years-old :rotfl: sent messages folder :D and dig up the e-mail I :D sent to my friends with the old video link :D in and paste that into the :grinbig: post, just so ya'll can see that I originally said, "Hey, ya'll, lookit this dumbass video clip" :rotfl: and was much amused, like everyone else in the thread. Or to put it more simply: Pardon me for skipping a smiley face on an OBVIOUSLY humorous video clip. I'll try to be more redundant next time. :P |
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Jan 3 2005, 06:50 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Resist Internet Cute Nazism. Resist smileys.
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Jan 3 2005, 09:41 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,032 Joined: 6-August 04 Member No.: 6,543 |
Well, here is one thing the katana was built out of weakness. The metal used to make the first and most old ones is rather poor by the standards of the time compared to the western swords. That is one reason they are folded so many times and most western swords aren't. This also why armours in the east were not as strong,and why the sword was used to much later dates.Note even before the wide use of guns, people were using things like mace,and axes more than swords. Also note that the sword was held in place by a vice, this probally held it with more force than most human arms could hold. On a side note, the part where Hiro used his sword too cut bamboo was the awesome. |
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Jan 3 2005, 09:48 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
This is rather unimportant because, as people have mentioned several times, anyone holding that weapon would have been very, very dead anyway. |
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Jan 3 2005, 10:06 PM
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Man In The Machine Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 |
Love the QVC bit. At 40 bucks, you get what you pay for.
The .50 vs katana video however. Im bloody impressed that it took that many hits. The first 2 where straight on, and hell, it CUT the sucker apart at on point. The last shot looks like it hit where the 1st on did though, and that was so the end of it. While I STILL wouldent want to be behind it, its nice to know that via sheer dumb luck it could deflect a round of less... bad-ass-ness. I mean it IS a BMG .50. |
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Jan 3 2005, 10:14 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Note that from every single hit on to the blade, the majority of the original mass of the bullet ends up hitting a rather small area on the back wall -- which is 5 meters away behind the blade. The deflection is minimal. Even in the two cases of majority fragmentation there is quite enough gilding metal and lead alloy impacting within a 0.5-meter radius circle in the wall to make a human thoroughly dead. |
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Jan 3 2005, 11:08 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,008 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Just slightly less thoroughly. Maybe.
With regard to the cheap katana, $40 is overpriced. I got my one of those for ~$20, IIRC. Again, they're not utterly atrocious, but that says more about how much you can do on the cheap with modern manufacturing methods than the amount of care put into them. ~J |
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Jan 3 2005, 11:29 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
Indeed maybe. I'm not sure if I'd even take the chances. If the bullet would otherwise have only hit an arm, the fragments would be more dangerous. If the bullet had hit the torso or the head, you're just as dead no matter what you do. If the bullet had hit your legs, you'll probably lose your leg(s) and live in either case. |
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Jan 3 2005, 11:54 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,156 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Fresno, CalFree Member No.: 4,252 |
I have that exact katana too. I paid like, 8 dollars for it.
I'm curious as to what the "great thing" about the sword was... |
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Jan 4 2005, 12:03 AM
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Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715 |
He was probably going to back it up with "never breaks" or something ironic like that. Yes, that is Pakistani Steel for you, folks. Got a few knives made of the stuff. I use them to spread mustard. While you'd be little more than swiss meat if you managed to split a bullet in two several times (hell, even once would be enough), you'd probably gain a lot of noterieity simply for doing it, despite being dead. |
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