[UA] Unknown Skills

[Radoslaw Galus]

From: Matt Norwood <rowan at media.mit.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:35 PM


> Eh. I'd stick with HTH damage. Most of the damage from a bullet
is from
> the hydrostatic shock

Some people claim that, yes. It is however only a theory and an
equal amount of experts will argue otherwise.

-- bullets enter the body with such velocity that
> they end up tumbling around and breaking bones, pulverizing
tissue, and
> generally fucking shit up.

To clarify things - the theory of Hydrostatic Shock is the idea
that since human body is composed in over 60% of water, a bullet
entering it causes the spread of a "shockwave" strong enough to
displace organs and damage tissue. It supposedly also travels
through veins and arteries, causing a surge of blood to the heart
or the brain capable of damaging or destroing them.

I could go into details why this is not neccesarily the case but
I don't want to bore the listmembers who are not keen on
gunfondling rants (you can look it up here if you're interested
http://civic.bev.net/shawnee/digress.html).

An arrow or a crossbow bolt tends to slide
> right in, making a clean puncture wound.

Yes, but it can be near to an inch in diameter while your
ordinary rifle/handgun bullet is 5.56mm/9mm.

- RG




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