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Posted: Apr 06 2011 02:13 pm

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=12393

Quote:

With efforts underway to ban lead-based ammunition as a potential health and environmental hazard, scientists are reporting new evidence that a prime alternative material for bullets — tungsten — may not be a good substitute The report, which found that tungsten accumulates in major structures of the immune system in animals, appears in ACS’ journalChemical Research in Toxicology.

Brilliant.

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

I guess they mean you can't hunt with them because then the meat would be full of tungsten. Or something like that.

Hard to say when there's no context whatsoever.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 02:29 pm

Ellis links to the article in question. Basically, spent lead/tungsten casings poison the environment.

Kind of ironic, really.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 02:50 pm

Let's just switch all ammunition to depleted uranium, that'll solve the problem. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Apr 06 2011 02:57 pm

There's a good reason that I use Teflon.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Maybe they should consider that removing the explosive from the bullet might make it safer. My guess is that if they did that, the number of deaths due to bullets would drop more significantly.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 03:31 pm

I guess I'll just stick with these, then:

Posted: Apr 06 2011 03:37 pm

I've considered this very carefully and instead of guns with gunpowder bullets I shall now use only a bowel disruptor:

(image source: http://raklink.blogspot.com/2010/07/bowel-disruptor.html)

The settings on it are, as follows:

Loose
Watery
Fiery
Prolapse
Unspeakable Gut Horror
Burning Anal Geyser
Rectal Volcano
Fatal Intestinal Maelstrom
Shat into uncousciousness.

Think about how much natural fertilizer I could produce with that!

Posted: Apr 06 2011 06:24 pm

Where do I sign up for one of those?

Posted: Apr 06 2011 06:52 pm

If it was really an issue, they could just switch to steel because at least it can be recycled easily enough. That said, other than for hunting animals for sustenance or sport or for target shooting, the only real reason to have a gun is to shoot someone else if necessary. Probably a bigger health risk than eating a bird with lead poisoning.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 07:20 pm

Make em solid platinum and Chris Rock's joke comes to life.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Blackout wrote:

Make em solid platinum and Chris Rock's joke comes to life.

At $1800/oz... uh... I would not be shooting anyone. In fact, I might be happy to be shot and pray that it isn't a through and through.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 09:40 pm

True dat. His joke isn't realistic though, if guns were tightly controlled as the joke implied stabbings would just rise through the roof. People can and will find a way to hurt one another, it's in our nature. Guns are just the convenient and tactically superior wounding option right now, that's all.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 09:45 pm

Shit. My wedding ring is tungsten.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 09:48 pm

Wedding rings should be pure copper, that way you can spot the shifty rapscallions that remove them. (The whole turns skin green thing)

Posted: Apr 06 2011 09:58 pm

I got mine in titanium, just in case I need to wedge it between some kind of security door in an emergency situation. Or in case I have to hit someone.

Posted: Apr 06 2011 11:01 pm

Blackout wrote:

True dat. His joke isn't realistic though, if guns were tightly controlled as the joke implied stabbings would just rise through the roof. People can and will find a way to hurt one another, it's in our nature. Guns are just the convenient and tactically superior wounding option right now, that's all.

yeah, but if someone is going to stab you, you at least have a chance of fighting back a bit.

Posted: Apr 07 2011 03:45 am

username wrote:

Blackout wrote:

True dat. His joke isn't realistic though, if guns were tightly controlled as the joke implied stabbings would just rise through the roof. People can and will find a way to hurt one another, it's in our nature. Guns are just the convenient and tactically superior wounding option right now, that's all.

yeah, but if someone is going to stab you, you at least have a chance of fighting back a bit.

Eh depends, get hit somewhere major and you'll bleed out pretty quick. I knew a dude who got second degree or manslaughter or something (years ago cannot remember the exact conversation) for stabbing a dude with one of those flimsy little paring knives that you'd have a hard time cutting steak with. He claimed he got the dude just right between the ribs or whatever and hit em in the heart and he died. Said he didn't mean ti kill em, only fuck em up and scare him. Just ran up on him no fighting back time or nothing.

Still yeah bullets are less fair I suppose... Anybody else ever think that bullets are just really long distance rapiers? Confused

Posted: Apr 07 2011 04:08 am

aeonic wrote:

I got mine in titanium, just in case I need to wedge it between some kind of security door in an emergency situation. Or in case I have to hit someone.

You know, there's a cheaper and more effective alternative to using a wedding ring to fight.

Brass knuckles.

Posted: Apr 07 2011 04:09 am

Nekkoru wrote:

aeonic wrote:

I got mine in titanium, just in case I need to wedge it between some kind of security door in an emergency situation. Or in case I have to hit someone.

You know, there's a cheaper and more effective alternative to using a wedding ring to fight.

Brass knuckles.

Man you'll fuck your hand up with those if you don't know how to hold them right.

Posted: Apr 07 2011 10:44 am

Tell me I'm not the only person to recall the upgrades from Mass Effect here.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

Nekkoru wrote:

I've considered this very carefully and instead of guns with gunpowder bullets I shall now use only a bowel disruptor:

(image source: http://raklink.blogspot.com/2010/07/bowel-disruptor.html)

The settings on it are, as follows:

Loose
Watery
Fiery
Prolapse
Unspeakable Gut Horror
Burning Anal Geyser
Rectal Volcano
Fatal Intestinal Maelstrom
Shat into uncousciousness.

Think about how much natural fertilizer I could produce with that!

This is the second funniest thing I've read all month.