• Orbituary
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    3114 days ago

    You don’t shoot to break the shackle of the lock - you shoot to break the shackle OUT of the locking mechanism… and also to be dramatic.

  • ProdigalFrog
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    2414 days ago

    A big enough surpressor combined with a subsonic bullet actually can make a gun movie-like whisper quiet, and even can be ultra quiet on a pistol.

    But most of the ones used in movies are small enough, or used on a semiautomatic, to where they would be louder than portrayed.

    So myth half busted!

    • @[email protected]
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      214 days ago

      You’re still getting a report from even bolt action pistols. Explosions be loud, who knew

      • ProdigalFrog
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        Those are pretty terrible options to surpress, since once they are made subsonic to avoid the supersonic crack, they have little energy to actually inflict wounds due to how light the bullets are (still deadly, just very underpowered). He would’ve been better off with a 9mm or a 45, but both would’ve been a little harder to conceal.

        A British gun nut wrote to Fleming about how terrible the .25acp is ballistically, which is why Fleming later made bond use a Walther PPK in a .32acp. The gun nut also inspired him to create Q.

  • @[email protected]
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    2114 days ago

    On tracing a call: The call does not need to be actively going for the trace to work. As soon as it’s made, the call can be traced, whether it’s for 1 hours or 1 second.

    • @[email protected]
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      413 days ago

      There’s a lot of variables here though right?

      Tracing a call in the 80s is a completely different proposition to doing so now.

      Now it could be done instantly with a database query. Any delay would simply be convincing the telco to perform said query.

  • southsamurai
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    1914 days ago

    That whole 2 guns at once part is misleading.

    All it takes is years of practice combined with the willingness to lose accuracy per shot, or only doing it at close distances. It isn’t some superhuman feat that the average person can’t learn.

    It just isn’t useful compared to a single handgun in any practical situation. It’s a show trick only, you’d never compete with it, and you’d definitely not want to try it in any kind of real world setting. The time you spent learning to do it would be better spent practicing any other handgun drills.

    • @[email protected]
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      413 days ago

      I saw this “cool guide” a few weeks ago on the front of Lemmy and people were dissecting it in the comments back then, too.

      I personally took interest in the silencer misrepresentation.

      Overall it’s a pretty stupid, simple comic gimmick by Bright Side. Bright Side are not proficient educators, they just excel at pumping out vast quantities of garbage “educational” content. /u/[email protected] should not have shared it.

  • @[email protected]
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    1414 days ago

    The shooting the lock thing is dependent on how much energy the bullet has. A pistol? It will probably not work. A rifle? It will likely destroy it.

      • @[email protected]
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        314 days ago

        Yeah an IKEA doorknob and any gun would likely work. You could also shoot out the internals and get it open or the wood next to it to weaken it for a kick.

        Everything is generally grey nuance

  • Boozilla
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    1314 days ago

    MYTH: Spaceship doors can be opened by shooting the control panel with a blaster.

    TRUTH: If the door is closed it can be opened by shooting the control panel with a blaster, HOWEVER…if the door is open it can also be closed by shooting the control panel with a blaster.

    • Davel23
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      1314 days ago

      Don’t forget that you can also prevent a closed door from being opened by shooting the control panel.

  • @[email protected]
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    1014 days ago

    You’ve seen all the asteroid belts in the universe to know that they all have miles of vacuum?

    • @[email protected]
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      1214 days ago

      They would need to. Otherwise, gravity would pull them together into a single asteroid/moon/planet etc.

    • FiveMacs
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      714 days ago

      That was probably before they switched everything to chinesium

  • femtech
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    I feel like the grenade one is true, like yea it will hurt but pulling the pin is not that hard.