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A person will be propelled violently backwards if hit by a bullet.
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A bullet fired by a gun cannot hold enough momentum. According to Newton's third law, if the bullet were to knock the target 20 feet (6 metres) back, the shooter would have to be knocked back 20 feet (6 metres), as well.
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this one is absolute bs! they completely dropped the ball on this one. the guns they used in an attempt to test this myth is pathetic. at no point did they test the gun most likely to confirm this myth. rather they selected weapons very likely to allow it to be bused. don't believe me? did they use the following to attempt to prove this myth:

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call it a cannon if you like, but the name says it all baby! :biggrin:
AN/GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gun system

until they fire a few hundred rounds of 30mm depleated uranium at buster, this will forever be a myth that they flat out dropped the ball on 100%!

seriously though, they have screwed up a few myths. two of the most obvious was calling gunny hatchcock a liar in regards to the killing someone by firing through the scope of their weapon. the other was helium filled footballs. they tested them in regards to distance thrown rather than hang time. seeing as hang time and not thrown distance is the key, its definitely one they need to revisit. other than that its a great show.
 
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Also when talking about the .50 sniper rifle that was designed specifically to cancel out much of the kick or "reaction". That thing packs some serious momentum, but was designed so it didn't throw the shooter back 5 feet.
 
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martinss01;720484; said:
EQG_WAWANGAU8_1.jpg


call it a cannon if you like, but the name says it all baby! :biggrin:
AN/GAU-8 Avenger 30mm gun system

until they fire a few hundred rounds of 30mm depleated uranium at buster, this will forever be a myth that they flat out dropped the ball on 100%!
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During Operation DESERT STORM the Air Force fired 30mm Armor Piercing Incendiary (API) munitions using a depleted uranium [DU] penetrator slug from the GAU-8 Gatling gun mounted on the A-10 Aircraft. The Air Force fired a total of 783,514 rounds of 30mm API in the Gulf War. Since each round contains approximately 0.66 pounds of DU, the Air Force expended a total of 259 tons of DU in the Gulf.

Continued....http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/gau-8.htm
 
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Does anybody even watch this show anymore?

'MythBusters' losing some regulars

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"MythBusters" is looking to the future -- and leaving some of its regulars behind.
On Thursday night's episode of the Discovery Channel show, longtime hosts Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage announced that the members of the Build Team, also known as M7 -- Grant Imahara, Kari Byron and Tory Belleci -- were leaving the show.

Moreover, as Byron revealed in a tweet afterwards, the show was "taking a new direction."

Byron and Belleci had been with "MythBusters" since 2004. Imahara joined in 2005.

"It is ... the end of an era," Savage said in a video message.

"This next season we're going back to our origins with just Adam and me," said Hyneman.

Entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/22/showb...n=Feed:+rss/cnn_topstories+(RSS:+Top+Stories)
 
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