Comments on: BULLET-PROOF VEST RESISTS FIRE OF THREE PISTOLS http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:06:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: KHarn http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-1047720 KHarn Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:28:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-1047720 It's a real vest. While the picture is a bad re-enactment (The distance was greater than that) the vests from the 1920s and 30s could stop a .38 special bullet fired from ten yards, a .45 acp at sixteen. The old vests used STEEL or DURALUMINUM alowing the wearer to withstand "blunt action trama". It’s a real vest. While the picture is a bad re-enactment (The distance was greater than that) the vests from the 1920s and 30s could stop a .38 special bullet fired from ten yards, a .45 acp at sixteen. The old vests used STEEL or DURALUMINUM alowing the wearer to withstand “blunt action trama”.

]]> By: NikFromNYC http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-1014972 NikFromNYC Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:42:50 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-1014972 Damn you!!! My "I Want To Believe" poster now has to come down, even. And I thought *I* was a sceptic. But I guess us scientists are the easiest to fool, thinking a picture is a picture, since all *our* friends (fellow scientists) don't tend to fake pictures. I know it's fake though, since I researched such vest materials, half a century after this blurb. And they don't let bullets go into bodies, but they still let bullets break ribs, since it's like taking a punch from a professional boxer, bare-fisted, unless you want it to weigh 85 pounds, which you don't. There is no way to make a perfect BPV (bullet proof vest), and it will take another 100 years to make it. Saw a kung-foo movie once. They deflected bullets by angling their palms as they arrived. Not as good as The Matrix through, since they kept using the same stupid trick a hundred times in two hours. Damn you!!! My “I Want To Believe” poster now has to come down, even. And I thought *I* was a sceptic. But I guess us scientists are the easiest to fool, thinking a picture is a picture, since all *our* friends (fellow scientists) don’t tend to fake pictures.

I know it’s fake though, since I researched such vest materials, half a century after this blurb. And they don’t let bullets go into bodies, but they still let bullets break ribs, since it’s like taking a punch from a professional boxer, bare-fisted, unless you want it to weigh 85 pounds, which you don’t.

There is no way to make a perfect BPV (bullet proof vest), and it will take another 100 years to make it.

Saw a kung-foo movie once. They deflected bullets by angling their palms as they arrived. Not as good as The Matrix through, since they kept using the same stupid trick a hundred times in two hours.

]]> By: phil http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-950840 phil Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:04:41 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-950840 ohhh no they didnt. sorry xmas overload ohhh no they didnt.

sorry xmas overload

]]> By: Blurgle http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-947527 Blurgle Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:42:37 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/12/23/bullet-proof-vest-resists-fire-of-three-pistols/#comment-947527 This is the worst photo-manipulation I've seen in ages. This is the worst photo-manipulation I’ve seen in ages.

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