You're a great example of why your alleged profession is getting replaced with LLMs.

I was going to do Hydraulic Injectors. Even using the most advanced hunting bullets, better than military grade, with a polymer tipped hydraulic injector to trigger cavity expansion, you still need something denser than upper ear cartilege to get it to expand.

Anyone ever faked a dramatic event for personal advantage?

#88 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2024-07-26 04:29 PM | FLAG:

Yeah Russian disinfo bots started immediately with Crisis Actor conspiracy theories too.

It was like watching the internet reaction to a mass shooting but inverted for the political spectrum.

Speaking of fake news... Bullet deformation begins on impact - that's physics.

#86 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE AT 2024-07-26 04:24 PM | REPLY

It's been tested, extensively. You need 4" for deformation on the .223 on a human form or to hit something much more dense like bone.

Things do not simply explode from the touch of a .223. The ear would not be ripped off. Go to any range, shoot up cardboard, gelatin, whatever you please, and you'll get a tiny hole in & out. That's physics.

I was trying to point out that there were other objects near Trump besides the teleprompter that could have been hit by a bullet and caused flying debris.

#67 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY AT 2024-07-26 03:15 PM | FLAG:

There were 8 shots in 6 seconds.

Definitely not in the right ear from where he's standing and the bullet travelled from.

You're grasping for anything to hit trump besides a bullet or bullet fragments. There's no evidence of it.

If a 5.56 round made contact with his ear at that range, he wouldn't have an ear ...

#68 | POSTED BY CHUFFY AT 2024-07-26 03:34 PM | REPLY

Also fake news. Body parts don't just explode with nicked. You have to have 4" of body mass to penetrate before the .223 will begin expansion.

Realistic is that an intact or fragments of a bullet aimed at Trump, hit Trump.

It's more than 80 feet from the bleachers along the angle where the shooter attacked from.

That's not realistic in any way.

Obviously it can. That's not what people are saying. For it to be metal, non-bullet fragments, it has to hit that bleacher and creating spalling sufficient to cause injury to somebody 40+ feet away. That's not happening.

#53 | POSTED BY GAL_TUESDAY AT 2024-07-26 09:29 AM | FLAG:

The flying metal debris would be bullet shrapnel. A metal bleacher isn't going to have any significant spalling from .223 impact.

The capsule concept was never broken, didn't need a winged orbiter to begin with, it was political.

You're also seeing in this thread the wave of Russian disinfo pouring into Democrats. Trump's first public appearance after the attack was the RNC, but there's stills going around of him golfing unbandaged claiming it's from an interview a day or two after the attack. It's an old photo presented as new. Disinfo specialists are having to work overtime between this and Ukraine.

It's just semantic pedantry. Shrapnel comes from a bomb or exploding shell. That obviously did not happen.

#22 | POSTED BY REDIAL AT 2024-07-26 12:51 AM | FLAG:

Semantic pedantry time? Shrapnel is a specific type of artillery shell, invented by Major General Henry Shrapnel (cue up Gilbert & Sullivan's Modern Major General). What shrapnel expels on explosion are called bullets or shot.

Because it's so effective at killing, over time the word evolved to mean fragments scattered by an exploding shell, bomb, or mine, and then continued to evolve colloquially to describe any type of high speed debris in a violent incident.

We've been flying on Soyuz since 2011 when the Shuttle was retired. It's safer and cheaper.

@#7 ... Soyuz? ...
Interesting.
Has the Capitalism goal of "profit uber alles" now wound up at the point that we need to rely upon technology that we have previously ridiculed?

#8 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER AT 2024-07-25 09:06 PM | REPLY

Who is "we"? NASA buys Soyuz flights, the most recent being a NASA astronaut flying to the ISS on one in March 2024.

Yet the RCP average went from +1.8 Trump over Harris, to Trump +2.1

But here and now, I am PISSED. Every time I have criticized Biden, the wagons have circled, calling me a Trumper, MAGAT, etc.

#70 | POSTED BY YAV AT 2024-07-24 07:27 PM | REPLY

Haha wait until you try talking reality on the ground in Ukraine.

"Biden does what's right, after extreme pressure campaign and a Trump assassination attempt."

He wasn't going to until every Democrat under 60 made him do it.

Same agency that's been around since 1865 couldn't control a parade route.

#4 | POSTED BY GALAXIEPETE AT 2024-07-22 12:06 PM | FLAG:

The head of the SS is a Biden appointee. She has extensive experience. Lady is about to get dragged by both sides.

That was the police's ladder. There's 2 ladders seen. He didn't go to Home Depot, buy a 15' ladder, and walk in with it. Police were supposed to be on that roof. It was too hot, so they didn't go up there. The guy who shot the assailant had to do what's called a Target Deconfliction, so he didn't accidentally shoot a police officer that he was told should have been on the roof over there.

You're attributing a lot of simple incompetence and negligence to malice.

This is the same Secret Service that posted a tiny agent at the door of the white house, that was physically run over by a nut who could have easily had a gun and shot the place up.

We expect Ukraine to lose.

Donald Trump once donated to Kamala Harris lol.

Anybody actually watch the thing? It had an extremely strong Idiocracy vibe with Hogan, Dana White, Kid Rock all doing things, followed by that rambling speech where grown men wept at the sight of The Don, then he went on to say that illegal immigrants are Hannibal Lecter. Apparently they're here to eat our faces with chianti and fava beans, and not just farm the beans.