The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn't Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew by Cracked.com

Author:Cracked.com
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 5.11 In hindsight, there may have been a less violent way to illustrate this point.

Bullets Don’t Explode Everything

In the movies, bullets and anything mildly flammable have a matter/antimatter relationship. The second that hot lead touches a car’s gas tank, it and everyone inside are going up in a beautiful ball of orange. Shoot an oxygen tank in a shark’s mouth and he’ll blow like he’s stuffed with dynamite. But this one doesn’t even pass the common sense test—the manufacturers of automobiles and pressurized containers really don’t like liability lawsuits. If their product could be turned into a fireball the size of a city block with nothing more than a puncture by a tiny metal object, every expressway pileup would look like the Hindenburg.

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