http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/oglala-sioux-tribe_n_1930696.html "The lawsuit was filed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which governs the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcohol is banned. Four beer stores named in the suit sold the equivalent of 4.3 million 12-ounce beer cans last year even though they're in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town with about a dozen residents on the reservation's border." Sweet Mary mother of alcoholism. By my math, that's 11,781 beers a day for the ~28k residents of Pine Ridge.
It was Hathcock who fired the most famous shot in sniper history. He fired a round, over a very long distance, which went through the scope of an enemy sniper, hit him in the eye, and killed him. I'm not sure this is physically possible.
nope. drag and falling from gravity would change the path considerably, especially from "a very long distance". It would have to be shot at a bit of an arc. That and deflection across hitting the glass of the eyepiece would alter its course enough to not make it cleanly into the eye. Not to mention that arc would need to 'drop' into the eyepiece.
wouldnt the drag and drop already be calculated into the scope and adjusted for distance. Dont they adjust their scope crosshairs based on distance, wind etc. or do they just aim higher and left/right so the center of crosshairs isnt on where the bullit is going to hit?
They do. But the issue is the path the bullet takes, and how it interacts with the air, gravity, the Coriolis effect (if it's "a really long distance"), how it impacts two glass surfaces before it hits the person. I have no doubts he got the kill. All the things that have to line up to get that specific scenario are bordering on outlandish. I wonder if they did a mythbusters on this
i guess i find it hard to believe they can hit something at 1000 yards and do, so why wouldn't this be possilble as well....
Hey thanks google, they did! Apparently they couldn't duplicate it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1U8YVWyMYY http://youtu.be/D1U8YVWyMYY
i get that...just very hard for my mind to wrap around either....so why can't both happen basically....me being a simpleton
As the mythbusters video states, there are actually more lenses in the scope than I thought (let's say about a half dozen) each of those lenses has some amount of concavity to it, and is a surface that is 'hard' and doesn't quite give way to a bullet that flesh would. So let's say that by some miracle, the bullet hits the first piece perfectly, totally normal to the exact center of the lens. It experience an impulse that would alter (again, if PERFECTLY hit) its velocity. Also, the bullet isn't perfectly hard, so there would probably be a slight flattening of the tip. The bullet is dropping this entire time due to gravity, however slightly. The bullet then hits the next piece, not perfectly normal to the center of the lens, but lower, (dropping from gravity) and without a sharp point, deflecting it more. And however many more times it hits a glass surface, deflects its trajectory a LOT.
It used to, but not so much anymore. Thanks for the recommendation though! That's a penguin with Knighthood. Sir Nils Olav. When the Norwegian King's Guard visited the Edinburgh Military Tattoo of 1961 for a drill display,[4] a lieutenant called Nils Egelien became interested in Edinburgh Zoo's penguin colony. When the Guards once again returned to Edinburgh in 1972, he arranged for the unit to adopt a penguin. This penguin was named Nils Olav in honour of Nils Egelien, and King Olav V of Norway. Nils Olav was given the rank of visekorporal (lance corporal) and has been promoted each time the King's Guard has returned to the tattoo. In 1982 he was made corporal, and promoted to sergeant in 1987. Nils Olav died shortly after his promotion to sergeant, and his place of honour was taken by Nils Olav II, his two-year-old near-double. He was promoted in 1993 to the rank of regimental sergeant major. On August 18, 2005, he was promoted to Colonel-in-Chief[5] and on 15 August 2008 he was awarded a knighthood. He is the first penguin to receive such an honour in the Norwegian army.[6] At the same time a 4-foot-high (1.2 m) bronze statue of Nils Olav was presented to Edinburgh Zoo. The statue's inscription recognises the King's Guard and the Military Tattoo. A statue also stands at the Royal Norwegian Guard compound at Huseby, Oslo.
Only about 2 people die a year in the US during solar installations; I don't know about the rest of the world but that stat is not indicative of the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSwLgZlX7uE Oliver stoooone doing documentaries on american history n shit
Germans were pretty fucked up. Kinda glad the Soviets made it Berlin instead of us, as it seemed kinda like justice. I honestly don't know much about the evilness of Japan's role in WW2, except Unit-731, pearl harbor and the horror they inflicted on the Chinese
yeah they would release bubonic plague-infected rats, perform absolutely horrible experiments and vivisections on chinese, and otherwise get them sick to come "see their doctors.". Honestly it was probably worse than Mengele, what they did. Cannibalism I haven't heard of. ick
Not really a pic, but they unclassified the aid to the soviet union for WW2 https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByfPynZO70CRN25FWnZKVHRJT3M/edit?pli=1 always kinda fun to thumb through "An Orthodox priest blesses rifles during a ceremony where new recruits receive their weapons at a military base of the Belarusian Interior Ministry" "admiral Krylov decorates a diver who cleared mines laid in the Spree river" No True Scotsman The Highland Charge was a highly effective Scottish tactic that used a combination of firearms and a sword/targe. The tactic was mostly limited to the times, though; the bayonets at the time were ringed bayonets, which required your average soldier to somehow slide this thing on while a furious war-party of Highlanders are running towards you, swords at the ready, screaming Gaelic at the top of their lungs. Once fixed bayonets became a thing, it reverted to a mostly psychological tactic, intended to break an enemy line. Bombed-out library in WWII. Polish soldiers with Soviet war banners after the Battle of Warsaw
The book Flyboys touches on one case of cannibalism. It happened at one of Iwo's nearby islands. Interesting fact from that whole story: George Bush narrowly avoided capture from the Japanese on that island.
Bonjour Spoiler: circa. 1903 Think about how many times this has happened since this picture was taken.