29 Aug 2003
Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics

Well, I was wondering what I was going to post about today: slow news day, and I've been very busy with work. Not to mention that we've sold quite a bit of farm produce in the last week, I've been hopping.

Well, Secular Blasphemy to the rescue! They pointed out one of the funniest sites I've seen since "Dr. Froggy's Home Hemmoroid Removal Kit". Check out Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. Here's a sample about machine guns and action heros:

First, let us point out that the thirty-round magazine in a Mac 10 will be expended in a mere 1.8 seconds of sustained fire! If our shooter blazes away steadily for a total of only 3 minutes, his or her Mac 10 will spit out around 3000 chunks of lead at roughly 15 grams a piece. This amounts to 45 kilograms or a little less than 100 pounds of lead. And that doesn't account for the weight of the 3000 cartridge cases or 100 empty magazines scattered on the ground.
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Yes, 9 mm submachine guns with slower firing rates would reduce weight problems, but it seems that real action heroes use Mac 10s, preferably one in each hand. We can't help asking where the sidekicks are with wheelbarrows to carry the ammo, let alone the cooling systems.

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