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The picture DB posted shows penetration, expansion, and wound cavity characteristics of assorted rounds of common ammunition in ballistic gelatin. Most rounds designed to deal with humans and animals will deform at some point on or after impact. As the bullet deforms, it cuts a wider wound...

Good to hear it. They are beautiful guns. I just can't shoot them worth a damn. Those grip stocks are very pretty. You going to leave them on, or swap them?

Very cool. There is a big group of hobbyists around here who take pictures of abandoned buildings and industrial sites. There is a ghost town from the 20s right by my house, but according to my local park ranger, snakes have made the buildings their home. So I'm out. Like most things in...

Very nice. I use a 400D (XTi), so we have a very similar camera. Your low-light exposure is fantastic. Mine still ends up being more luck than skill. I haven't gone much beyond the auto mode of my flash yet. (430EX). A reflection shot at Yosemite. Another hiker tipped me off to a low...

Vaguely inspired by Wintermind's question regarding guns and photography from the gun owner's thread, I wonder if there are other folks here with an interest in photography? I got into photography because I wanted to start cataloging some of my wood work for sale, and I was tired of taking...

I have a steel target that is a 3/4 center mass, which I use for the longer distance shots because I can hear it ring when it hits. For the most part, though, I just drive some 1x2's into the ground and staple targets on them. However, as part of the public land use, I have to take everything...

Wikipedia is not 'academic writing', and you see no major reason to doubt the accuracy of the article because you do not appear to have vetted any of the sources. Your "chaotic melee of bouncing and rolling juggernauts" is sourced to an LA Times article about a company that lost the bid to...

Regardless of my general disinclination to make sole-source counter arguments, much less via Wikipedia, I present you with three things to consider: 1. Perhaps you missed the paragraph directly above the one you quoted, which states: 2. Perhaps, in that same article, you misunderstood...

On that, we are in complete agreement.

I tend to stay out of politics as a practice of polite consideration, as I believe people rarely change their political views based on argument or recitation of facts on internet forums. Generally, I think it's a waste of electrons. So I will limit myself to a very focused, specific...

You are 100% correct in that nuclear reactors do not have sufficient quantities of fissile material in a configuration that could generate a nuclear explosion. The fuel rods went into full meltdown, generating tremendous heat and pressure and off-gassing radioactive material through the...

One of my favorite places to go in my new home is the Pawnee National Grasslands. It's absolutely huge, and it's in my back yard. Recreational shooting is permitted in something like 90% of the park. I usually go to a very isolated portion about an hour into the park along unpaved back roads...

Most of this part of the country is full of arroyos, box canyons, buttes, mesas, and the like. It's all very pretty, and all very windy. And the obligatory un-cropped shot with windmills everywhere: We're fairly sparsely populated, and the wind farms in this area are on private...

On an unrelated note, this is a wind energy plant installed, at least metaphorically, in my back yard. Wind energy is very viable in the southwest and high plains as a supplement to the numerous NG plants that provide 80% or more of the electricity in this area. Environmentalists...

It would have to be a hell of a fire. Keep in mind that the pressure vessel itself is designed to contain the tremendous heat of the nuclear reaction, and the containment vessel is designed to mitigate radioactive release in the event of an explosion. The bigger concern would be a loss of...

It varies based on site history and maximum probable magnitude. Very few of our civilian reactors are located on or near active fault lines. Most of the central US reactors are built to a standard of somewhere around 7.7-8.0 Richter based on a safety margin above the historical magnitude of...

Couple of reasons: If I am going to go short, I might as well go as short as practical, because I live in states that are NFA friendly. 12.5" works very good on both .308 and 5.56 AR style weapons. It gives an extra inch of barrel length in front of the gas port, which increases dwell time...

Another fun piece of trivia, though it may be apocryphal. When I was a squid (slang for a member of the Navy), we were taught that "SCRAM" originally stood for 'Super Critical Reactor Axe Man'. In the early days of nuclear reactor research, if things started going sideways and the control rods...

I believe I understand what you are asking. An LWR reactor core is designed to SCRAM automatically in the event of a serious transient or melt down. What this means is that all the control rods drop, dampening the reaction and reducing heat. Supposedly, the emergency coolant kicks in at this...

I have a little bit of difficulty following your argument. If you are stating that TMI could not have been as bad as Chernobyl even if the worst had happened, then I agree with you. I am an electrical engineer, not a nuclear engineer, but I can answer your question about the difference...