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May Stundie Nominations

Travis

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Travis
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A Stundie is a laughably wrong statement in relation to a conspiracy theories. They are ideally short and sweet. Don't forget to source them with a link.
 
That sounds like a good idea for an episode of Mythbusters!
 
Sword_Of_Truth said:
I think Mythbusters actually covered it already.
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I recall them trying to see if you could stop a gun from shooting if you put your finger in the barrel. I think they found out that you could, easily in fact!
 
fourtoe said:
I recall them trying to see if you could stop a gun from shooting if you put your finger in the barrel. I think they found out that you could, easily in fact!
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I'd guess it depends on the gun. Something like a Colt 1911 you might be able to push the slide and barrel out of battery which would prevent it from firing.
 
Probably they could shoot down the barrel of Bin Laden's gun, rendering it harmless.
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Travis said:
That sounds like a good idea for an episode of Mythbusters!
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fourtoe said:
I recall them trying to see if you could stop a gun from shooting if you put your finger in the barrel. I think they found out that you could, easily in fact!
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They also tested the story that during the Vietnam war a Marine sniper killed a VC sniper by shooting down the barrel (or maybe it was through the sight) of the VC's gun, and showed that it could have been done.

They went through almost all of their test weapons before they got there, though.
 
Elizabeth I said:
They also tested the story that during the Vietnam war a Marine sniper killed a VC sniper by shooting down the barrel (or maybe it was through the sight) of the VC's gun, and showed that it could have been done.

They went through almost all of their test weapons before they got there, though.
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It was a shot through the scope on the VC snipers rifle
 
fourtoe said:
I recall them trying to see if you could stop a gun from shooting if you put your finger in the barrel. I think they found out that you could, easily in fact!
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This is untrue, unless you call welding a metallic finger into the barrel 'easy'.

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a freeman struggling with his maths
http://forum.worldfreemansociety.org/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=9700
let us examine "almost zero chance"

almost zero - indicates that it may be, however small, it may be in existence.

without proof one way or to the contrary of that way, yet the acknowledgement that it may exist is there. I would then have to say it might or it might not exist...that in my books is a 50-50 chance...far from almost zero as monsieur trolle in the form of noconsentforme posts, false and misleading statements.
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FMOTL the eternal optimists.
 
Elizabeth I said:
They also tested the story that during the Vietnam war a Marine sniper killed a VC sniper by shooting down the barrel (or maybe it was through the sight) of the VC's gun, and showed that it could have been done.

They went through almost all of their test weapons before they got there, though.
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I think you're thinking of the down-the-scope shot by Marine sniper Carlos Hitchcock. Though I am sure that there was probably a MB ep on this feat.

aofl said:
This is untrue, unless you call welding a metallic finger into the barrel 'easy'.

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I was just joshing! :P
 
A new theory on how fossil fuels are formed: (bolding mine)

There are enduring myths in relation to things like fossil fuels and the role of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere.
Think about the nonsense that has been perpetrated for a century or more- that Oil is the decayed remains of Dinosaurs and other early inhabitants of the Planet etc
Those old Dinosaurs must have burrowed deep into the ground (thousands of feet ) to become our present day Oils.

It never happened.

The center of the earth is made up of fantastically hot molten fuels, mainly Hydrogen.

Hydrogen is the basis of all combustible substances, including Oil, Petrol, natural Gas, Coal, etc

Over millions of years, as we see when volcanoes erupt, there have been eruptions of liquids from the center of the earth and these extremely hot liquids have not made it to the surface of the earth, but remained several thousand, or in some cases, several hundreds of feet below the surface. There they stayed and became what we now know of as Oil deposits.

So much for the notion of Oil being a product of Fossil remains.

Now what about Coal ?

When you burn a log of wood in an open fire, it might not completely burn, but the next day you can light the fire again and the rest of the log will burn completely.
That half burnt log is similar to coal.

But Coal did not come from decayed Dinosaurs either nor from long dead forests . It almost certainly emanated from pools of molten hydrogen etc that had come to ground level from the center of the Earth, and probably burnt as very wide open fires, until a lot of the liquid content was gone and you only had dry Oil/Carbon based residue, which is what Charcoal is.

There are variations on the creation of these early combustible fuels but this is basically how they came into being.
When you see that explanation, you realize that the fossil fuel notion, is pretty laughable, but most scientists accept that notion as a rational explanation for the existence of oil deposits etc.
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http://www.jimbernard.org/gpage3.html

Lots of good quality crazy there: anti-vaccine, colloidal silver is good for you, skin cancer is caused by excessive salt in your epidermis.
 
I guess that guy has never heard of "geology" or something.
 
I think his general idea of "molten fuels" is ridiculous enough.
 
fourtoe said:
I think you're thinking of the down-the-scope shot by Marine sniper Carlos Hitchcock. Though I am sure that there was probably a MB ep on this feat.
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There was. They had difficulty reproducing the shot, until one of their experts mentioned they weren't using the same kind of sights as the Vietnam era snipers used. The modern ones had many more optical elements, and the extra layers of glass kept deflecting the shot.

When they used a simpler Vietnam-era sight, they made the shot pretty easily, in comparison.
 
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