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Comment on "MythBusters: Son of a Gun, Showering during a Thunderstorm"

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:47:28 -0800

Ah, the infamous minie-ball. Actually the story was submitted anonymously to the editor of the fairly new Medical Weekly, by a friend whose handwriting the editor recognized. It was a joke, and for those that didn't get it, the editor attempted to clarify this in the publication two weeks later.

As to whether or not the POSSIBILITY of this potentially happening, the Myth Busters actually failed, as usual, by not considering all possibilities. Their second test did not deform the minie-ball before perforating the simulated scrotum, there was no simulated testicle (or attached simulated vas deferense) to carry away to potentially be implanted with the minie-ball while protecting the "genetic cargo". Hmm...

- Phantom

Comment on "MythBusters: Son of a Gun, Showering during a Thunderstorm"

Mon, 02 May 2005 14:42:27 -0800

corrected the notes -- thanks. With all the modern branding today (Apple mini, Mini Cooper, iPod mini, Google mini) I thought those bullet makers were just being ahead of their time :).

- kwc

Comment on "MythBusters: Son of a Gun, Showering during a Thunderstorm"

Mon, 02 May 2005 13:09:01 -0800

It's actually a "minie ball," after its creator, Captain Claude-Etienne Minie.

http://www.civilwar.si.edu/weapons_minieball.html

- Alex