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Sunday, February 10, 2013

A consumable with a major impact


Slow motion bullet through various objects from Youtube


I have had this little snippet of the beginning of a post sitting around for weeks. Rather than develop it into a full post, it just felt like time to fire it off - shooting from the hip, so to speak.

Bullet points:

  • silver bullet
  • take a bullet
  • bite the bullet
  • faster than a speeding bullet
  • bullet time
  • magic bullet
  • calibre
  • bullet point
  • dodge a bullet
  • bullet proof...



...except none of us are.

Estimated number of bullet produced each year: 12 billion
Value of global ammunition trade each year: US$4 billion

Source: Oxfam


This final view clip isn't pretty like the one above, but I don't suppose it is beyond being important to remember that bullets might be used to shoot at deer and bottles, but those are not the uses for which they were principally designed.

Warning, extremely graphic scene of bodily harm:





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