Hey, just wanted to drop in and check on y'all. Life treating you well? It better. >:[ Y'all are amazing, don't you ever forget it.
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.
Well its a bank holiday weekend coming up for us in the UK. So in 1 hour 10 minutes time I'll be logging off from my work computer
Sixty percent of sexual encounters between springbok mantises end in the female biting the male’s head off
^^^ Ahem; South African here; Springbok (Rugby Players) don't bite off their opponents head - we rip them off
Used to see cars in the university parking lot with bumper stickers that said, "Rugby players eat their dead."
So those audio books I found on youtube… I’ve been through the horror and thriller books I was interested in. There may be others I just haven’t seen yet, I just have to look further into the listings. In the meantime, I’ve been listening to some of my wife’s favorite zombie/pandemic apocalypse books. When you put it in a zombie context, the face masks, the constant hand washing, and the keeping six feet or more away is far less objectionable, and make far greater sense. Apparently, getting zombie goo in your eyes is just as good as getting bit. I’ve been through Deadbreak, Pandemic books 1,2, and 3, and I’m on book three of White Flag of the Dead. After my limited zombie education I’m thinking in the event of a zombie influx, the best static weapons are going to be air horns, strobe lights and mirror balls. The standard attractants seem to be noise, light and movement. So get their attention with the air horn, and put a strobe light on a mirror ball. The sensory overload ought to explode their heads without firing a shot.
It's really early here and I glossed past the "mantises" bit, tried to imagine that sort of carnage in this situation: That quote relates to the "Miracle of the Andes" plane crash of the Uraguayan flight where the survivors were forced to eat the bodies of the dead in order to stay alive.
I dated Shannon for a while, and while she was ever so slightly on the "thicc" side I never figured her for a rugby player.
Movie gun battles with silenced handguns are fake. The ability of a silencer to greatly reduce the sound of a firearm is only good for the first shot, since they are packed with a foam material that gets blown out after just one shot. Accuracy take a slight hit also. Then again, if you get into a gun battle, the operation was a failure anyway.
that’s not how silencers work; they use sound baffles. Movie silencers are way quieter than in real life though, like that John Wick scene in the subway—very cool but ridiculous.
If I die in a plane crash, my fellow passengers are welcome to dine on my bones if necessary, but should be forewarned that their blood cholesterol is liable to take a jump on a diet of me. Rugby players for the local university team had a reputation for uncivilized behavior in social situations. I danced a lot of places back in the day, but the tight head prop (ah, the visuals inspired by that moniker) was a chess pal who warned me in no uncertain terms against risking a performance at rugby team parties. I believed him.
I was shown one when I was in the navy by some Seals we had on a Float. It was about an inch an a half diameter and four inches long. It was filled with polyurethane (mattress) foam cylinders about an inch long with a hole down the axis a little smaller than the bullet caliber. These were separated by mylar baffles with X cut in them along the bullet path.
You're both kind of right - cheap silencers are packed with steel wool, russian and chinese mass produced suppressors are the worst in that regard, it compresses with each shot and there have been instances of them exploding in the hand a decent supressor is made with baffles, it is true that the first shot will still be the quietest though, which is why a lot of special forces use their weapons on single shot.. if you rip off a burst of automatic fire they'll get progressively louder. The other factor is the speed of the bullet...if your round breaks the sound barrier you'll get a sharp crack regardless of how good your suppressor is, for real quiet action you need subsonics. and a third factor is the surroundings that determine how the sound propagates.. if you're inside a lot of soft furnishings will lead to a quieter shot than an empty hall way, while outside shooting in a woodland will be quieter than the same round on open ground. for example this video (about 9.40) that's a honey badger with a subsonic .300 blackout and a silencer co suppressor...it's very nearly as quiet as a movie silencer, although its more of click than the hollywood swish
