What cheered you up today?

[Erich]

Hey I am upright, walking, smelling, seeing, breathing crazy man ..........

now where is the woman with the big Cannons ?

 

[Matt308]

Us ugly Americans would have thrown it away and bought a new one, while cursing the Chinese for their cheap products.

 

[mkloby]

no no i was very British and refined about the entire incident "darn it" was the order of the day, no expletives and i got to work fixing the problem as soon as possible! with a typically British common sence yet cunning approach... i fixed the peice back on the other way up so you can't see the damage... still a lot of work though

We had a RM attachment to our company back in Officer Candidate School, and your post made me think of him... the stereotypical British underanimated, superficially polite and yet scathing comments... I'd rather just have someone cursing me off!

 

[Henk]

Helping the lady at my moms work with her computer.

 

[Matt308]

You and your mom are talking again Henk? Great!!

 

[Erich]

agreed about Hendrik Matt !

hey the wind died down today and I left the fur lined speedo's at home while working ........

 

[Matt308]

A warm house, some beautiful Christmas music, and the little one is going to see Santa. Not really sure why. He casually said to me over the weekend, "That's okay Daddy, I know you are really Santa anyway"

 

[Erich]

that's the spirit Matt, keep it alive

frrrrrrreezing fog, delay of game at work ............. oh well

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

doing a presentation on how fat you have to be before you become bullet proof.......

if you're wondering, which i know matt is, the answer's roughly 1,800lbs, so congratulations matt you're bullet proof

 

[Matt308]

Almost. What makes you think mass equates to ability to deflect high energy projectiles?

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

a standard .35cal handgun bullet has roughly 369ft. lbs. of energy, capable of penitrating 1 ft of human flesh, it's then very simple to calculate how much mass the 1 ft all over layer will have

 

[cheddar cheese]

What about if I shot you with a .50 cal sniper rifle. How fat would you have to be then?

 

[Matt308]

Your "standard" .35cal, 369ft-lbs energy handgun sounds a lot like a 9mm (9x19mm). And tests have shown that 9mm hardball (FMJ) will penetrate up to 35 inches of ordnance gelatin. In fact MOST hollowpoints will penetrate significantly more than 12 inches of "flesh". This is one of the reasons that domestic police are now migrating towards the .223 instead of 9mm carbines. You need to narrow your test parameters there, Einstein.

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

if you're running from the police (as per our presentation) you're more likely to get shot by a pistol

 

[Matt308]

I didn't think the UK police carried weapons. Unless you consider a radio a weapon.

 

[Erich]

so if your head was 1800lbs it would deflect a bullet .............. you FAT HEAD !

doubtful

 

[Matt308]

And I take issue with his use of the term "bullet proof". Mass does not equate to super-flesh density. You can shoot a elephant with a .22. May not kill it, but by no means is it "bullet-proof". I see this analysis of Lanc's to be highly flawed. Failed, I say!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

no not deflect it, but in effect swallow the bullet, the bullet will penitrate the layer of fat but not into the body's central organs...........

and no UK police don't carry firearms, but then no one's that fat over here, as such it was all based in america where 1,800lbs makes you a light weight.........

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and we covered any possible issues with our calculations in the presentation..........

 

[Erich]

oh very cool just received in mailbox just seconds ago a wonderful signed war time pic from my friend and former Bf 110G-4 and Bf 109G-10 pilot Fritz M. serving in 9./NJG 101 and 4./JG 104, one of the few surviving members of the ugly sacrificial mission "Elbe" from April of 1945

cool man ..........