The Youtube video thread!

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Can you guess the voice of the big thing?

... Was that Patrick Stewart?!

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

[Nutso]

Can you guess the voice of the big thing?

... Was that Patrick Stewart?!

Tom Baker.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Okay, now I hear it. Holy shit!

[Nutso]

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, admittedly, I don't get leaf-peeping.

[Nutso]

Brian Blessed's going to be on TV in the UK...

[Nutso]

[Graham Kennedy]

Well, that looks horrific.

[Jim]

As an American and a multiple gun owner all I have to say is ... Why?

[Graham Kennedy]

I guess it's what you want in a bullet. They're meant to kill people - horrific is part of the job description.

I'm not naive enough to think we could have a world without weapons. And I actually like weapons, in a guy kind of a way - hell, I design space warships that could depopulate multiple planets in different solar systems simultaneously as a hobby!

But I find it a little sad that we live in a world where things such as this need to be invented for real.

[Atekimogus]

Isn't that just similar to a "dum dum" round which is - if I am not mistaken - outlawed by the geneva convention...or at least heavily frowned upon?

[Graham Kennedy]

A dum-dum on steroids, essentially, by the look of it.

I once had a concept for a sci fi weapon. A small calibre bullet - 4.5mm, so a handgun magazine could hold about 120 of them. Extremely high velocity, lots and lots of kinetic energy. Each round was essentially a forcefield generator unit. Just after it penetrated, the round would generate a flat circular forcefield perpendicular to the direction of motion - and several inches in diameter. So even though it was a tiny calibre, very high velocity bullet with excellent penetration power, it was virtually impossible for it to overpenetrate a target, and it caused absolutely colossal tissue damage.

This kind of reminds me of it a bit.

[Coalition]

A dum-dum on steroids, essentially, by the look of it.

I once had a concept for a sci fi weapon. A small calibre bullet - 4.5mm, so a handgun magazine could hold about 120 of them. Extremely high velocity, lots and lots of kinetic energy. Each round was essentially a forcefield generator unit. Just after it penetrated, the round would generate a flat circular forcefield perpendicular to the direction of motion - and several inches in diameter. So even though it was a tiny calibre, very high velocity bullet with excellent penetration power, it was virtually impossible for it to overpenetrate a target, and it caused absolutely colossal tissue damage.

This kind of reminds me of it a bit.

Set the forcefield to a cone, parabola, or spherical shape and make it flicker rapidly so it slices whatever it hits into lots of very thin layers. This way the bullet never has to try and push the forcefield through the target, but you still get lots of tissue damage (until the bullet itself starts to touch the tissue). Even then, it is pressing against sliced disconnected tissue instead of the entire body.

[Graham Kennedy]

But the whole point is to make the bullet impact as much tissue as possible, because that's how it deposits energy into the tissue. The idea is to create the biggest cavity/shockwave possible.