Beefbisquit
Well-Known Member
No one can throw a 2lb rock @ 100ft/sec.I see. We would have to work up some stats in foot-pounds. Heck can help with the math. He is all studied up.
We need to look at how well a depressed, brain exposed skull fracture is survivable compared to say a 9mm to the Brain.
Didn't someone just survive that? A Congress woman? And he walked up close. If you get your face crushed, that is immediate termination, you realize that, right? The nose bone is sharp on the inside. And on the backside it can be even worse. The Temple, the back of the ear.?
These are also lethal blows.
So, a 9mm slug is about 7.5 grams and leaves at about 1150 feet/sec and if within 10 feet will deliver 340 foot pounds.
An 88 mile an hour baseball pitch is 129 ft/sec. That baseball speed is the across the plate measure, all the way from the mound. So, let me have a 2 pound rock at 10 feet at 100 feet/sec. That delivers 310 foot pounds and will not cut thru and thu like a bullet and embed itself elsewhere. It will dump all that into the brain, like a giant dum-dum.
Actual Gabby only took 1/2 those foot pounds, the other 1/2 were dissipated. No one can stand a 2 pound rock in their face, I don't think.
Well maybe you can, being a professional rock hunter and all.
Rocks bounce off heads too, so not all of their force is transferred. When was the last time a bullet ricocheted off someones head? Probably happened before in a fluke accident, I've seen many people get hit int he head with rocks, they're still my friends today. Bullets, especially hollow point, are designed to use all their energy up on impact.