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The Moment a Bullet Turns into a Flashlight, Caught on Film (hackaday.com)
20 points by rcarmo 9 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



>First of all, the clear blocks being shot are ballistic gel. These dense blocks are tough, elastic, and a common sight in firearms testing because they reliably and consistently measure things like bullet deformation, fragmentation, and impact.

To be honest, it's really because ballistic gel reliably and consistently measures things like "the effects of bullet wounds in animal muscle tissue"[0] (i.e. how well bullets kill living things).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_gelatin


I feel like there's a mom joke in there somewhere, but I don't know.




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