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Thread: .38 caliber bullet shatters on hitting Prince Rupert's drop - GIF

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    How powerful vibration can be to take a bullet before it resonates to death at 223368 frames per second.
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    Interesting to watch the glass stem begin to shatter from the base, then propagate to the spot the bullet hit.

    How do they get video footage like that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PJs View Post
    Not sure I would consider that "Considerable" and can't read the gauge from Iowa....or California. Perhaps you have a better view from Europe?
    The gauge is embedded in the upper RH corner of the video. it is easily viewable from anywhere in the world...

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    But tap it ever so slightly on that tadpole tail, and it will be the one to explode.



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