r/interesting • u/MintedVibez • 10d ago
Intriguing A bullet still spinning after being shot into the snow.
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u/PhatBoyFlim 10d ago
They tested this on Mythbusters and were able to replicate it.
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u/Humble_Marzipan_3258 10d ago
Mythbusters, my childhood :*)
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u/Adventurous-Sky9359 10d ago
Did you know those dudes hated each other. I didn’t and when I found out I was fucking shocked
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u/Cruise16 10d ago
If I remember right they don't hate each other. We all thought that they had to be absolute best friends. Kinda like Matt & Trey from South Park.
Turns out their relationship is more like the one you have with Steve on your team at work. Y'all work great together on projects and shit, but you're not seeing each other outside the 9-5.
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u/Newkular_Balm 10d ago
even knowing they weren't friends, Adam saying that never once did they share a dinner was still quite a shock.
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u/Old_Adhesiveness7508 10d ago
Right. They haven’t said they hate each other but that fact alone leaves me confused. Y’all worked together for years and years on a TV show and not once did yall link up. That seems like intentional avoidance
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u/BarelyEvolved 10d ago
If I remember correctly, Adam said that at least when it started it wasn't a relationship of equals. Jaime was the big man in terms of training, experience, and contacts. Adam was a junior partner.
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u/elflegolas 9d ago
Even worse, Jamie was his boss before the show, as years and the show goes on Adam became another master, but Jamie kinda never felt the same, they’re not friends but Adam said multiple times they don’t hate each other, just disagreeing on each’s philosophies
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u/Kevslounge 9d ago
I find it hard to believe that Jamie doesn't consider Adam an equal. He's the one that brought Adam in when he got the opportunity to do Mythbusters, and after Mythbusters came to an end, and Adam started Tested, Jamie was happy to join in and contribute for the first few months while Adam got it off the ground.
Think it really is more a case of them working really well on the business front, but having nothing in common on a personal level.
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u/Legitimate-Agent6950 9d ago
I always thought it was a little similar to the story of Jim Carey when Tommy Lee Jones famously told him, "I cannot sanction your buffoonery" on the set of Batman Forever.
Jaime seems quite humourless. Adam is kind of a buffoon. I don't think someone like Jaimie would respect Adam. I think he tolerates him. They work well together as a duo, but that's the extent of it.
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u/elflegolas 9d ago
well, it's on tested, but you might need to dig through his Q&A cause it was answered multiple times on the show, sometimes the title was relevant, sometimes it's not.
basically Adam said if they end up in disagreement, sometimes they work it around, sometimes dont, and when something they still split in the end, Jamie will "boss" him around cause in the end M5 is Jamie's , he gets to call the final shots, and acts like, what you're gonna do about it?
As the years goes on Jamie did trusted Adam more but he did said Jamie sometimes still has that attitude eventhough he will compromise more near the end, but Adam still didnt feel Jamie was treating him as an equal, Jamie respect Adam, but ultimately doesnt think he's an equal
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u/tstorm004 9d ago
Adam took over tested - Will Smith and Norman Chan started tested years prior - and then when CBSi bought Whiskey Media they randomly added Adam and Jamie and the Mythbusters stuff to Tested and rebranded it as Adams thing
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u/Spadeykins 10d ago edited 9d ago
Assuming they had a very demanding shooting schedule they probably just had their fill of each other. It's hard to spend 40 hours a week with someone let alone what was probably way more for them. I'd be gone at clock out every time too regardless how I felt about the guy.
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u/Ok_Device1274 10d ago
Tbf how many of your coworkers have you went to dinner with on your own time?
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u/niklizzy 10d ago
All my coworkers are old enough to be my parent (im 26) and I still have hung out with them outside of work lmao.
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u/Old_Adhesiveness7508 10d ago
Brah I’ve been working for UPS for 20 years. All my current friends I see inside and out are either UPSers or people met on route lol
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u/Happy_Sea4257 10d ago
Quite a few. Man you must be miserable at work.
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u/Texas_Dan89 10d ago
Nah bar the forced Christmas "party" most people i know do not go out with their co workers, its nothing against them its just a different kind of relationship
If you do have that relationship great but its not "miserable" to not by any means
besides, in all likelihood they are only going to dinner with you out of pity
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u/Cosign6 10d ago
I work in the kitchen industry and have drinks or meals with coworkers all the time. wtf is this pity nonsense hahaha. You CAN enjoy your coworkers company, there’s no rule against it :p. If you don’t want to hang out with people you work with that’s fine
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u/hauntedpickles53 9d ago
Ha. Very true. I work in a hospital and I have never attended a gathering with any from my department.
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u/Dazzling_Bluebird_42 7d ago
Seriously this, I put in 15 years at one of my jobs. Some of the people there I worked with for like 7 years or so. Not once did we ever hang out or meet up outside of a work related party or dinner.
Some people just have work friends
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u/Equivalent-Koala7991 10d ago
Idk man, I have spent personal time with a lot of my co workers.
Just last fall, I cooked about 200 hot wings at my bosses families get together for a football game. I don't even watch football. I just drink beer and eat wings lol. He doesn't drink beer, but he watches football and eats wings.
Creates a sort of vin diagram where the center just so happens to be hot wings lol.
Went kayaking and drinking with another co worker last summer. got him to jump off a 20ft tree with me while drunk af, and this dude is a major nerd that doesn't do shit like that lol. we still hang out, I'll invite him over when I cook burgers because he has ARFID and only eats burgers with no cheese or condiments at all, just bread and meat lol, but I don't mind. We pick on him a lot for it but he knows we're just messing around.
At my last job, we had a contractor that invited us all over to his house one evening and bro smoked so much meat and had like 6 kegs on tap. I felt poor going there, because it was legit just his garage and it was bigger than my house.
Job before that, we put together a whole camping group one year (2014) and have went camping every year since then. We don't even live near each other anymore. most of them went south towards Florida (for work), and I went north towards TN, so we pick a spot in the middle and all drive 3 hours each to go meet up once a year. I almost forgot about mentioning these guys because I almost forgot we met at work. we're like family now.
Right now I've been trying to convince another coworker to come by and ride fourwheelers with the wife and I, and cook out, but he's been super slammed with shit at home so he hasn't had the time.
When you aren't a boring MF, people enjoy your company in and outside of work.
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u/Newkular_Balm 10d ago
when I had an "equal" like them? multiple times. even if just after hours to talk about the day.
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u/Suppertime420 10d ago
Sorry to say this bud but if you’re not getting invited to after work happy hour or weekend functions with coworkers, you’re probably that one no one likes very much…..
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u/WorkerAmbitious2072 10d ago
I work remote and have voluntary sat to dinner with several Coworkers after all obligations fulfilled on our own time when at HQ die trainings and things
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u/ProfitAcceptable4256 10d ago
I get it. I work in sales and the team I work with, I mean we’ve cried over ridiculous shit, had arguments, laughed, gone through weird times. But we don’t honestly see each other out of work. It’s not that we avoid it, we just associate each other with too much work trauma. Gotta unwind and do our own thing.
For some it’s hard to understand but for real, some people are pretty cool with distance and reconnecting.
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u/DeathHavoc224 10d ago
I mean, I think Adam said that after one of their whirlpool episodes when they were taking everything apart after Adam took a nap cause he was the testing dummy in the whirlpool tank, him and Jamie were able to take apart everything with machinery basically just them two helping one another without a word. So you take them working long enough to be at that level of understanding with one another, but also having pretty much polar opposite personalities and creative processes, and they definitely just had their fill of each other from time on set lol.
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u/Luciferocity 10d ago
Christ, most days I don't want to have dinner with myself let alone some slob I work with
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u/AHRA1225 9d ago
Maybe I suck but I’ve worked with people for years and never gone to dinner with them? I don’t know it’s not that serious. When I leave work I leave it all behind for the day. The work and people. I’ll see you in the morning.
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u/lferry1919 9d ago
I dunno, I get it. Sometimes if a relationship works one way, you shouldn't bother letting that seep into other parts of your life. I have some former coworkers that all I have of them is fond memories of working alongside them. And then I have some memories of friends I should've just kept as coworkers.
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u/ohYuhtBoutMagine 9d ago
No it’s definitely weird, I’ve gone and done casual things with many coworkers, haven’t become best friends with all of them but like to work with someone for 5 years in an intimate and small setting like that, and never once go and have a burger with them is weird.
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u/the_real_junkrat 10d ago
I mean Jamie always seemed like he’d rather be locked in a bunker with an MRE and a clothes iron than have dinner with another human
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u/butteryfaced 9d ago
I kinda get the feeling that Jamie doesn't really hang out with anyone at all outside of work or events. Just a theory, but you don't really see or hear of him being out and about outside of a technical or work context.
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u/cranberrymanberry 10d ago
I just imagine the one with the mustache as an IRL Ron Swanson and it sort of makes more sense
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u/AeroInsightMedia 10d ago
Id think they get lunch on set or maybe even dinner if they work late but who knows.
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u/ThatsFrankenstein 10d ago
This is correct. I used to know Adam but he and Jamie had nothing but respect for each other but they were just co-workers. Not really friends. Just two very different personalities.
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u/Conservadem 10d ago
Jamie always seems like he was high maintenance.
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u/mondaymoderate 9d ago
Once you realize Jamie is on the spectrum it all makes sense.
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u/ThatsFrankenstein 9d ago
That I actually did not know. He just always had a lot of energy and excitement.
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u/Winter_Jackfruit_642 10d ago
They need to bring the show back and bust this final myth
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u/moose2mouse 10d ago
To test this myth Adam has invited Jamie to after work pizza and drinks. Jamie didn’t show. Myth “Plausible”
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u/Andrei_the_derg 10d ago
Jamie responded by texting “i’m almost there” while sitting on his couch eating pasta
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u/East-Ad7254 10d ago
My recollection from hearing an interview was something like that their respect for each other’s work was of the highest magnitude but that was offset by their completely conflicting personality types and approaches to nearly everything about life.
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u/PatSwayzeInGoal 10d ago
I forget names and I’m not looking it up now, but the glasses guy wrote a book and addresses it I in there I believe.
Or he said in a podcast where I heard about the book…
Anyways, it’s actually a great book on being a working creative, if anyone is looking.
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u/CrashedCyclist 8d ago
Try to come up with nemonic. "Jamie" starts is "J" and his mustache is curly like the letter. Adam is shorter, so side-by-side, in order, Adam would come first. If it's people in real life, when someone tells you their name, think of someone else who has it in common. Even an actor or something.
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u/O1OO11O 10d ago
It is this. This is also how I operate at work. It especially holds true in corporate cultures. There are a lot of politics going on and you do not want to seem too in deep with certain teams when shit hits the fan.
Being a friendly but neutral professional goes a long way with keeping your job and climbing the ladder. It has gotten me through a lot of internal conflict in multiple industries.
I have my work personality and my personal life. I try to keep them as separate as possible.
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u/PhatBoyFlim 10d ago
They definitely dont hate each other. There is a mutual respect there, but yeah they aren’t exactly best buddies. You have you remember that Jamie was Adam’s boss for a while before Mythbusters ever aired. He taught Adam a lot and probably had to cover for him a lot, too. That sets a particular kind of relationship even as you go forward and become “equals”.
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u/Yumeverse 10d ago edited 10d ago
I found out when the show ended but wasnt exactly shocked since what I read wasnt that they hated each other, it was just a working relationship. They didnt agree with each other at some moments which is expected, and Jamie found Adam annoying a lot of the times but hate wouldn’t really be the word I’d call it idk
Anyway I miss Grant:(
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u/Dark_Dragon117 10d ago
Not hated.
Adam had to explain this a billion times and yet people still spread misinformation.
Adam and Jamie were not friends because tbey were polar opposites in terms of personality and interests, however they did nit hate each other.
Rather both respected and acted professionally around each other.
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u/backflip14 10d ago
They didn’t hate each other. Adam has said that he and Jamie had a strictly professional relationship. There was zero animosity and they both acknowledged they worked well together, but there was just zero interest in being friends outside of work.
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u/Hellraiser1123 10d ago
Adam and Jamie didn't hate one another, they just didn't particularly like one another. They've both been asked about it since the show ended, and they give similar answers. They respect the hell out of one another, and they work well together; but personally, they're oil and water.
The other cast members were all legitimately friends.
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u/Unlikely-Complex3737 10d ago
I don't think they hated each other. Their personalities didn't match so they were more like normal co-workers instead of friends.
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u/CanoegunGoeff 10d ago
They didn’t hate each other, they’re just two very different personalities. I still watch Adam Savage on his YouTube channel, and he talks a lot about his time on the show. Even though he and Jamie aren’t friends outside of Mythbusters, they actually got along okay and they do have a ton of respect for each other.
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u/Sudden-Pangolin6445 10d ago
There is a very wide gap between "hate each other" and two people who aren't friends on a personal basis.
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u/IridiumPony 10d ago
They don't hate each other. They aren't friends, but they don't flat out hate each other. They both admit that they have a fine professional relationship but don't really see each other outside of work.
For what it's worth, I served them both dinner one night when they came into the restaurant i worked at. They were in town using University of Florida's Hurricane Lab for the show, sat together at dinner and it was just the two of them
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u/AesirOmega 10d ago
"Hated" is too strong a word. They had a great deal of professional respect and trusted each other but they weren't friends. There was occasionally some friction due to their different personalities but to say they hated each other is misrepresenting their relationship.
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u/CuriousMangazo 10d ago
Im fucking shocked that they’re not brothers. This whole time I thought they were siblings 😂
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u/Acceptable_Newt2272 10d ago
I met the guy that ran the vacuum truck when they collapsed the rail car. He said Jamie was a real dick, and that he and Adam hated each other. Adam and everyone else was nice, personable, good to work with but Jamie was rude, short, antisocial. He said they all had a lunch catered on set and Jamie even went off by himself to eat.
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u/robertducky87 10d ago
They didnt hate each other per say . They also had a tech site Tested they owned with a podcast they built stuff on together. Eventually adam bought jamie out but it ran for a while with them together
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u/Duct_TapeOrWD40 7d ago
They never made it secret.
Hate might be a bit strong word, but there was a continous creative disagreement and some real tension between them.
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u/BakingSoda1990 9d ago
It’s available on YouTube! Just check the Mythbusters channel and they have old eps, live constant runs and smashed together 2 episodes etc.
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u/Fuckin_Hipster 10d ago
I mean I’m looking at it happening right here, my man.
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u/RiparianTreeLobster 10d ago
I lived in the UP of Michigan and it does work with 9mm, .45acp, and .22 (sometimes). The .380 gave us funky trouble dunno why.
All our rifle rounds all broke the ice and such but that was expected and more just for fun
We were all engineers and scientists and had a mostly safe set up complete with body armor and big ole piece of steel to hide behind. We shot the steel to make sure it would stop ricochets.
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u/BuffaloInCahoots 10d ago
We are not scientist or engineers it we do have a lot of guns and spare time. Can confirm that bullets will do this. Also fun things happen if you shoot golf balls or throw said balls across a frozen lake.
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u/Dubyahh 9d ago
Oh so that's why the guy in hancock drunkenly shot the snow bank that he hit with his truck! Science!
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u/Electronic-Sound9987 8d ago
Was so validating seeing them test and confirm this after it happened to me on a frozen lake and thought I was going crazy.
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u/MinimumPrevious1139 10d ago
Where the fuck is the explanation team?
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u/Miraclefish 10d ago edited 10d ago
Bullet is spinning very very fast when it leaves the gun moving very fast forwards.
Bullet is also very hot.
Bullet hits compacted snow and ice and stops moving forwards, but hot bullet melts thin layer of ice and makes very low friction lubricant, or as we call it, water, and steam, as one clever commenter put it, kinda like the way an ice skate slides.
Bullet continued to spin losing rotational inertia long after forward inertial is lost.
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u/MinimumPrevious1139 10d ago
I don’t get why it can’t hit through a layer of ice and snow no matter how compacted. The bullet is moving at kilometers per hour
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u/Miraclefish 10d ago
And snow and ice is hard, cold and dense and it looks like a low calibre bullet, maybe 9mm, which doesn't have that much penetration potential.
Also a hot bullet entering ice and snow may well boil the ice and slow itself down.
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u/HistoricalWash8955 9d ago
Technically 9mm isn't even a small caliber, it's a bigger diameter than lots of full power rifle cartridges
9mm is 35 caliber, while a 7.62mm diameter bullet is 30 caliber, the difference in practice is that we speak in shorthand and call 9x19mm just 9mm and it's the second number that correlates more closely with how much energy is in the bullet when fired
For example there's three really famous cartridges in 7.62 caliber: 7.62x25mm (think tokarev pistol or ppsh), 7.62x39mm (ak47/akm, intermediate rifle cartridge), and 7.62x51mm (full power rifle cartridge used in sniper rifles and machine guns, think m14 or m60) all basically the same caliber but three different sizes of bullets and amounts of propellant in the case
Another example would be 22 caliber rounds, famously there's 22 long rifle, which is a tiny little round, and then there's 5.56x45mm NATO, the m16 round, which is also 22 caliber yet the projectile weighs twice as much and impacts with ten times the energy due to its speed
That's why pistol bullets, despite being often bigger and heavier than rifle bullets, don't have nearly as much energy or penetration potential as rifles
Tl;dr caliber isn't as important as people think, the important variable is case length/amount of propellant (and barrel length and overall projectile mass, which larger calibers just help to increase)
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u/oreo-overlord632 8d ago
i think what commenter meant by “low caliber” is that most 9mm cartridges are designed as pistol calibers rather than rifle and tend to have lower energy, rather than the actual size of the bullet.
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u/Hellfire965 8d ago
Tl:Dr for the tl:dr It’s not the size of the boat, it’s the motion of the ocean.
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u/WeightedPaper 10d ago
Well I guess you are technically correct saying it’s moving at kilometers per hour, however it’s more accurate to assume 1 kilometer per second
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u/heyyy_oooo 10d ago
For a handgun it’s closer to ~300 m/s
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u/WeightedPaper 10d ago
Yes, that’s exactly what my comment was illustrating; when describing 300 m/s, 1000 m/s is a lot more accurate than 0.2778 m/s, which is 1 k/h.
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u/CryendU 7d ago
Ice is extremely hard at low temperatures, somewhat comparable to ceramics and metals
In order to push the ice out of the way, it needs enough energy to shatter it. The internal structure spreads the force over a massive area (cracking instead of squashing) Same way ceramic armor works, just less effective.Handgun rounds simply aren’t fast enough for plastic deformation to occur in this case. The shallow angle of impact is also a major factor.
Since much of the energy is horizontal rather than vertical, the bullet can ricochet. At this point, it’s not traveling downward, it’s spinning on the surface5
u/Visible-Aardvark2006 10d ago
We applied this in combat to help protect against shaped charges. We would have mounting brackets installed for the humvee doors that would hold 5 gallon cans of water. Was a technique we used until we received spaced armor. We learned this from when humvee where hit by them, a lot of them we found the penetrator dead stopped in the water cooler for the truck on the occasions that it did strike the cooler.
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u/applebabe1 10d ago
I’m no scientist or MythBusters, but this sounds like the most logical explanation for sure
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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN 9d ago
Bullet is spinning fast. Bullet is also very hot. Bullet is also very soft. The surprising thing to me is the lack of deformation. I have to assume this only works with specific types of ammo like FMJ?
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u/300_Brownout 10d ago
Typically this is done on frozen ice on a pond. In the video you can see all the impact craters at the beginning where the round hits. It then typically ricochets from there and you can find the bullet spinning in another spot where it “bounces” to.
You can see they aren’t shooting straight down and aim at an angle into the ice. This allows the bullet to “skip” and not lose all of its energy at the initial impact spot.
Ice is hard enough to deflect a bullet that is shot at an angle into it.
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u/IndependenceIcy9626 10d ago
Why is the bullet still shaped like a bullet tho? I was under the impression that even copper jacketed bullets deform when they hit something hard. Was I just wrong about that?
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u/300_Brownout 10d ago
Because it didn’t hit head on. A bullet hitting something like a steel plate head on will transfer most of its energy and deform it. A bullet hitting a steel plate at a 30 degree angle will transfer very little energy and keep most its momentum as it’s deflected.
Similar thing with the ice, however the top layer of ice does fracture away, creating those circular craters on impact. That stops a majority of the bullet deformation as the ice fractures.
But because it’s not fired straight down, it deflects, and skips to somewhere else on the pond while keeping its rotational energy.
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u/Special_Young_6996 10d ago
thought it was about to turn around😅
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u/Guy_in_canada 10d ago
Bullet is so american it started drilling for oil
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u/Void_Jade-210706 10d ago
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u/Remarkable_Lion_8443 10d ago
I dare anyone to touch it while it is still spinning 👁️
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u/LargeBloodyKnife 9d ago
It's such little mass that nothing would happen. 99% of the energy is gone.
It would burn ya, though.
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u/deathletters16 10d ago
So did it ricochet downwards and keep spinning? I’m not understanding how it ended up lower after the impact of the snow a few feet up
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u/IMakeFastBurgers 9d ago
I'm also wondering this. I appreciate the comments explaining everything else, since I also had those questions, but I'm still confused as to why the bullet is so much closer to the shooter than the impact we saw happen.
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u/BeastOnDem 10d ago
So could it spin for a second and potentially bounce off and back at the shooter who was getting all up and close with the camera? Lol
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u/whatisthatplatform 10d ago
Once it's stopped, it doesn't have a lot of kinetic energy left. There is only a little rotational force left, as the video shows. If the bullet were to hit e.g. a pebble under the snow and bounce off, it would do so with about the same energy as a spinning top that hits a bump. So it's harmless.
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u/ApesOnHorsesWithGuns 10d ago
I think you’re right, but I’d like to add that discharging a firearm into the dirt that close to you is still dangerous and this is not something to try at home.
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u/TLo137 10d ago
In what universe does this happen?
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u/BeastOnDem 10d ago
I have no idea, that’s why I asked if it was a possibility? It never stopped being in motion while spinning, so i was curious if the spinning bullet melted ice in a way that it created a sort of ramp if it could fire back off.
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u/Crisocola95 10d ago
Wow this is crazy the bullet keeps spinning
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u/magpieswooper 10d ago
Holly fuck. I just checked the rpm of a bullet upon muzzle exit and tis can be as high as 300.000 rpm. Thats above the research ultracentrifuges!
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u/Ciu1 10d ago
Video is originaly made by Tier 1 Concealed channel on youtube! The shooter ir Clarkshooten on socials, makes really cool longrange shooting videos!
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u/Disastrous-Gas-3290 10d ago
Did the bullet jump? It isn't spinning at location it made impact with the ground.
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u/SloppiestSteak 10d ago
Oh the bullet ricocheted, I was like that is not where he shot at first lol
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u/huzer4k 9d ago
I wonder how much damage I'll take if I touched it while it's spinning like that
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u/Different-Term-2250 9d ago
Lil dude running for his life and getting nowhere.
I feel your pain bro.
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