Ballistics Quotes

Anyone will be glad to admit that he knows nothing about beagling, or the Chinese stock market, or ballistics, but there is not a man or woman alive who does not claim to know how to cure hiccoughs. (Robert Benchley)
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel? View quote
Adam Savage
There is the advantage that a small or light bullet has over a heavy one when it comes to wound ballistics. ... What it amounts to is the fact that bullets are stabilized to fly through the air, and not through water, or a body, which is approximately the same density as the water. And they are stable as long as they are in the air. When they hit something, they immediately go unstable. ... If you are talking about.30-caliber, this might remain stable through a human body. ... While a little bullet, being it has a low mass, it senses an instability situation faster and reacts much faster. ... this is what makes a little bullet pay off so much in wound ballistics. View quote
Eugene Stoner
The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. View quote
John Sherman Cooper
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun! View quote
Nathan Myhrvold
A little bullet pays off so much in wound ballistics. That is what people who choose these weapons know. View quote
James Fallows