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Shrimp Bandages Clot Blood Faster
dwbryson writes "A new bandage technology uses ground up shrimp shells to instantly clot blood when applied to an open wound. These new bandages were developed and are being produced exclusively for the military (at $100 for a 4x4" square), but the company who makes them is hoping to mass market them to general consumers."
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Well let's see, you're posting as AC, which means that there's a 99 percent probability that you're full of shit. I'm speaking from experience, I have a Bushmaster sitting in a gun safe not 20 feet away from me. I fired the M-16 in basic training at Fort Knox and for weapons qualifications every other year in the National Guard and at various NCO academies. Not once were we ever issued magick bullets that would knock a man off his feet, spin through his body and then, upon exit, turn to seek another target.
I can tell from your post you're citing military "made for public consumption" uniformed propaganda about how nice our bullets are.
I can tell from your post that you're full of shit, because you're posting as AC, I can also tell from your total ignorance that you're probably some sort of left wing dickhead who gets all his news from IndyMedia and who wanks himself to sleep every night over a semen stained picture of Noam Chomsky. Why don't you cite some links to these studies?
It doesn't take any "voodoo" to make a bullet tumble or fragment at the speeds they're traveling. "FMJ" and "ball" are terms you seem stuck on, ascribing some magical quality to.
I'd suggest that you're the one who's stuck on these. FMJ means "full metal jacket" "ball" means a solid round, these are about as cheap and simple as you can get in ammunition, a good thing if you're planning on firing off millions of rounds. I would suggest that you're the kind of left wing crackhead whose tiny brain shuts down when he hears the word "military". News flash crackhead, if you're so inclined you can get ammunition that's much more lethal than standard miltary rounds at any store that sells reloading supplies. There's nothing special about military bullets, there doesn't need to be and the military, with the exception of a few special forces units that might have such ammunition (I don't know anything about this and you don't either) can't afford special ammunition.
They're MEANINGLESS in regards to tumble and shatter in designed military rounds, because a "FMJ" "ball" round can easilly be designed to tumble and fragment. Slightly altering the center of mass, such as in AK rounds, or the addition of slight designs such as the rings on M16 rounds, do the trick.
What fucking rings are you talking about, there are no rings on an M16 round, have you ever seen one, held one, loaded several hundred of them into magazines on a rifle range? There aren't any magickal voodoo rings on them. If you'd ever handled a few thousand of them you'd know this.
Get a clue already. Nothing is more iritating than some goon who thinks a "good source" of information is propaganda that he and all his buddies agree on. You sound like the type of person that wouldn't know a scientific study and a truly reliable source of information if it fell on you.
No, I'd have to say that AC's whose firearms knowledge has come from playing Doom III are pretty damned irritating.
Get a clue already. Nothing is more iritating than some goon who thinks a "good source" of information is propaganda that he and all his buddies agree on. You sound like the type of person that wouldn't know a scientific study and a truly reliable source of information if it fell on you.
You have never fired a gun before have you. I can tell from this that you've never fired a gun before, you've probably never even touched one. You say that morons should not try to explain physics, well you shouldn't, and you shouldn't try to explain firearms design or ballistics. Yeah, you can dissipate some energy with springs, and the like but not all of it, and a significant portion of it is still transferred to your body. Spend a day at the range some time firing a .30.06 or a shotgun and then tell me how your shoulder feels at the end of
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