Weaponized Silly Putty: But Will it Still Copy the Funnies?

13 Responses to Weaponized Silly Putty: But Will it Still Copy the Funnies?

1. Rich says:

   October 11, 2012 at 11:05

   Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. The action starts at 1:50.

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2. Greg Camp says:

   October 11, 2012 at 11:07

   How did they chamber the shell without getting the putty in the works? Shotgun shells typically don’t have the slug or pellets sticking out the front end. That being said, F = mv. The difference here is that the putty wouldn’t hold together to penetrate a resistant material.

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   • Moonshine7102 says:

     October 11, 2012 at 11:10

     Pretty sure they were single-loading them. Also, momentum = mv. F = ma.

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     • cmdrlimpet says:

       October 11, 2012 at 11:13

       Dang, beat me to it!

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   • great unknown says:

     October 11, 2012 at 12:06

     non-Newtonian liquid [e.g., silly putty] = stiffens up under stress. That’s why it demolished the tv screen and came out the back. It might just penetrate resistant materials more easily than you expect.

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   • C. Walther says:

     October 11, 2012 at 12:07

     These are the same guys who melted Crayolas crayons into wax slugs and went to town. That was a fun video. (First two minutes are how to make them; second two, what they can do).

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3. jwm says:

   October 11, 2012 at 11:34

   The beauty of a smooth bore. If it’ll fit, it’ll fly. I always heard that silly putty was the by product of a failed weapons developement program. If that’s true these guys are just advancing the experiment years after the fact. Fun stuff either way.

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   • Moonshine7102 says:

     October 11, 2012 at 11:38

     A rubber-substitute during WWII, actually. Wiki knows all:

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silly_putty

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4. Ralph says:

   October 11, 2012 at 12:07

   Is it just me, or does that Silly Putty slug look vaguely obscene?

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   • Ing says:

     October 11, 2012 at 13:04

     Not just vaguely… That thing looks wrong on every level.

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   • Sanchanim says:

     October 11, 2012 at 14:28

     I am still sitting here giggling like an idiot!

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5. Chris Dumm says:

   October 11, 2012 at 12:43

   I wish they’d weighed and chrono’d the Silly Slugs, because then we’d know how much energy they had to play with. The more mvv/2 you’ve got, the more interesting things happen. Even a 2mm plastic pellet does wild things at 7km per second from a light gas gun.

   If I were loading these (and I’m absolutely NOT) I’d use a paper-wrapped Silly Slug inside a solid-walled shot cup-wad. This would hopefully keep the barrel from being slimed by smearing/burning Silly Putty.

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6. Daniel says:

   October 11, 2012 at 13:13

   Wow. Looks like someone has finally found the perfect way to deal with the daily Garfield, aside from yelling “BOOOO” at the page.

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