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Tianjin is basically a W54 Davy Crockett dialed down to the absolute lowest yield that a fission device can function properly. Beirut was a mid level W54 at 500 tons. Davy Crockett's operational range is between 19 and 1000 ton (TNT) yield, in a package the size of a large watermelon. The actual footage of the 1962 live test of the W54 could not really show the scale of destructive potential it had because the wide open plain gives an illusion of everything being much smaller than they are. But when you see similar sized effects in the backdrop of a city and industrial area, holy shit...
 
Stopped shooting long enough to make stupid video so I could make stupid Gif of stupid fletching.
Shoots amazing, just noisy.

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Look at it. Look at the fletching, it looks like it's rotating towards you. But look at the nock or the wrap, it's rotating away from you. Look back at the fletching, it's going towards you. Your eyes and your mind are lying to you.
 
Stopped shooting long enough to make stupid video so I could make stupid Gif of stupid fletching.
Shoots amazing, just noisy.

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Look at it. Look at the fletching, it looks like it's rotating towards you. But look at the nock or the wrap, it's rotating away from you. Look back at the fletching, it's going towards you. Your eyes and your mind are lying to you.


Made me think of this immediately:



TU-95 nuclear bomber with contra-rotating prop system.
 
Stopped shooting long enough to make stupid video so I could make stupid Gif of stupid fletching.
Shoots amazing, just noisy.

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Look at it. Look at the fletching, it looks like it's rotating towards you. But look at the nock or the wrap, it's rotating away from you. Look back at the fletching, it's going towards you. Your eyes and your mind are lying to you.
It's not your eyes or your mind lying to you. The affect can be created a couple different ways

One way is the rolling shutter that many cameras use.


Strobe lights can be used to freeze a spinning or moving object such as a fan blade. Depending on the fan speed and the speed of the strobe, the fan can appear to be turning counter clockwise, clockwise or not moving at all. This is similar to how a timing light is used for determining the distributor timing on an older car...

Here's a video showing how 50 or 60 Hz light can be used with a strobe disc to check/set the speed of a turntable.
 
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Stopped shooting long enough to make stupid video so I could make stupid Gif of stupid fletching.
Shoots amazing, just noisy.

View attachment 8475369

Look at it. Look at the fletching, it looks like it's rotating towards you. But look at the nock or the wrap, it's rotating away from you. Look back at the fletching, it's going towards you. Your eyes and your mind are lying to you.
If you focus on the white and ignore the text, it will rotate correctly.
 
Stopped shooting long enough to make stupid video so I could make stupid Gif of stupid fletching.
Shoots amazing, just noisy.

View attachment 8475369

Look at it. Look at the fletching, it looks like it's rotating towards you. But look at the nock or the wrap, it's rotating away from you. Look back at the fletching, it's going towards you. Your eyes and your mind are lying to you.
But note it is coming towards you slower than it is turning. To see the fletching going the right direction look right where the fletching touches the shaft on the right side.
 

We gotta work on those numbers!!!

Remember... 'most' of the leftards don't even have one. Then you have the kids. And the infirmed/elderly. And (some) of the illegals... which is about 11m now.

That really means only about 70 million Americans own a firearm. With an estimated 400 or so million guns in America... That's only about 6-7 guns per 'owning' person. And that's just pathetic!

We need to pump up those numbers!!!

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