Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]

Re:Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of sol... by itsyaboi on Saturday May 14, 2022 @08:07PM (#31383974)

This is bizarre. He knowingly, purposefully took the place of a crash test dummy? Why?

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Re:Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of sol... by sacrosancty on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:48PM (#31384838)

Apparently they used to do that. Here are people demonstrating the safety of seatbelts by crashing their car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWy0hHHECdM

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Re:Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of sol... by kayodelycaon on Saturday May 14, 2022 @10:47PM (#31384830)

I assume he was focused on doing the experiment he (and dozens of other people) lost sight of the consequences.

As we say in America: “Hold my beer.”

Edit: Or more charitably, they underestimated the consequences.

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Re:Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of sol... by noneeeed on Sunday May 15, 2022 @03:51AM (#31386000)

Pretty much the latter.

This wasn’t Jackass, it was a science programme and he was the resident engineer. In theory he knew what he was doing but underestimated the risks and paid the personal consequences.

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Re:Shaped Charges – Sheet of copper going through 1ft of sol... by green-eclipse on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:14PM (#31384951)

"Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is crash test humans"

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