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Re:The Firing Squad Problem by biot on Saturday February 08, 2014 @04:56PM (#7202942)
While you may not know if your rifle has a blank, you'll definitely know if your rifle fired a blank due to the different force in recoil because you're accelerating the mass of gunpowder+lead vs gunpowder alone.
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Re:The Firing Squad Problem by CamperBob2 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @06:36PM (#7203400)
Not sure how true that is. How much recoil force is contributed by the bullet versus the gas that propels it?
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