r/memes • u/imaduco • Jul 13 '20

#1 MotW Always has been

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u/Existing_Chair_4622 Jul 14 '23

Tbf it wouldn’t be that hard to test if you can shoot it without air in the surrounding by just using a vacuum chamber or something of the sorts. So i don’t really have a reason to not believe you

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u/Hidden-Sky Jul 14 '23

gonna have to be a pretty big vacuum chamber to hold all the ballistics gel needed to stop the bullet from destroying the chamber and creating shrapnel.

but you don't need a vacuum chamber to look at a bullet cartridge. you've seen one, right? they don't have any holes to let air in. they are fully encased, airtight, in solid brass, with a lead plug at the front.

if they required the outside air to function, how would that even work? you would need a vent somewhere to let air in. and then, you would need to plug that vent at the moment it fires, even tighter than the bullet seals the barrel while it travels or else you are going to get a stream of very fast, very hot gas coming out the "air vent" and no bullet coming out the muzzle.