🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9301111836.AA10742@math.bu.edu> jeffs@math.bu.EDU (Jeff Suzuki) writes:
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>There's just one thing that makes me a bit suspicious about this
>particular experiment; the pig wasn't dodging.  Also, by being tied to
>a tree, it couldn't move very much, whereas someone being hit by a
>really hard blow would be expected to absorb considerable momentum.
>Has anyone done a similar experiment with, say, the carcass weighted
>down (i.e., so its mass was approximately that of a man) but able to
>move freely?  That would be a more valid test of damage potential.
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Of course the poor thing couldn't dodge! It was dead! :)

(More seriously, the carcass was probably also skinned and gutted, so it
gave no indication of how hard a weapon had to hit to penetrate into the
chest cavity to hit a vital organ. I really must FIND the damned
article.)

Lothar.

>Fujimoto