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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Man vs. T-Rex: What Gun Would You Need to Beat One?
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 21:13:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On Jul 1, 2025 at 1:40:27 PM PDT, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

> On 7/1/2025 4:09 PM, shawn wrote:
>>  On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 15:24:47 -0400, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
>>  wrote:
>>  
>>>  On 7/1/2025 12:03 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>  On 2025-07-01 11:19 AM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>>  On 7/1/2025 2:54 AM, shawn wrote:
>>>>>>  On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 05:58:23 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Testing the effectiveness of various firearms on a T-Rex, from the
>>>>>>>  smallest
>>>>>>>  handgun (.22 pistol) to the most powerful rifle in the world (the
>>>>>>>  950 JDJ,
>>>>>>>  which shoots a 2400-grain round that produces 30,000 foot-pounds of
>>>>>>>  muzzle
>>>>>>>  energy and 300 pounds of recoil):
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pf6E8yjMAI&t=2s
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Apparently they are really pushing this video as I just saw it pop up
>>>>>>  in my recommended videos.
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I confess I shut it off after the second weapon, and not from boredom...
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>  Appalled by the wanton destruction of ballistic gel, I'll bet. "The
>>>>  horror, the horror...."
>>> 
>>>  Not sure why they didn't fill it with cherry...
>>> 
>>  
>>  Because ballistic gel is intended to simulate flesh. Adding in cherry
>>  would give a bright red color but wouldn't simulate hitting an actual
>>  t-rex.
> 
> Well, that's interesting (...though I was being snarky).  But where 
> structural realism is intended, I'd expect some sort of skull layer.

There was.