Muzzle Velocity (was: High resolution sleep (Linux)

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On May 8, 12:59 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr... at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:24:01 +0200, "Hendrik van Rooyen"
> <m... at microcorp.co.za> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
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> > So being an idle bugger, I just naturally assumed that the
> > speed would have doubled in the intervening time since
> > I was last involved in this subject. - hence the 5000.
>
>         Development tends to go in both directions... Massive rounds moving
> at, or slightly slower, than "typical" (2000fps) vs very light rounds
> moving at really high speeds (the various .17).
>
> > Did you know that the first military smokeless powder
> > round was for the French Lebel? - It threw a bronze
> > ball, and could punch through a single brick wall.
>
>         Well, extreme high speed wouldn't help for that -- just get a
> surface splatter. Heavy and slower... (or some sort of solid core --
> depleted uranium with a teflon coating)

And penetration isn't always desireable. A slow, heavy round will
punch a tunnel through your arm muscle, but a fast, light round
will take your entire arm off.

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