One To A Billion

Feuer Frei! · 05-13-11, 12:34 AM

Those are two bullets, French and Russian collided in the air, back at 1854 during the war in Russia at Crimea peninsula. People say that a probability odds for this to happen is one to a billion, and to find such 150 years laters was also a great luck.

Pretty dam amazing!

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GoldenRivet · 05-13-11, 12:37 AM

wow

Armistead · 05-13-11, 04:34 AM

They have found several of those at different civil war battlefields here in the US, seen several in person from some of my friends I metal detect with, but think of thousands of men shooting at each other from 100 yards or less. They have a piece of tree, about 3ft long from Gettysburg that had over 800 bullets in it. In some battles they cut trees down with bullets.

Took hell of men to just stand there popping off 50cal rounds at almost point blank range.....

Thomen · 05-13-11, 05:11 AM

Yea, these are amazing.

If you ever have the chance, visit the Gettysburg Battlefield Museum. They have a couple of these.

joegrundman · 05-13-11, 06:10 AM

let us guess from the total combatants about 300, 000 people, firing say 50 rounds each = 15,000,000 rounds

at least 6 bullets hit each other - pure ball-park figure

odds in the region of 2.5 million to 1. that order of magnitude anyway

jumpy · 05-13-11, 07:04 AM

The Mythbusters managed to do it in an hours program

Sailor Steve · 05-13-11, 11:42 AM

Getting hit by lightning, winning the lottery, falling out of an airplane and surviving, two bullets hitting each other...

The odds are extremely long, but it happens.

Penguin · 05-13-11, 11:48 AM

wow, impressive! I've never seen this, though I knew people who collected stuff from battlefields. Thanks for the link!

claybirdd · 05-13-11, 04:10 PM

truly amazing.

Gargamel · 05-16-11, 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Getting hit by lightning, winning the lottery, falling out of an airplane and surviving, two bullets hitting each other...

The odds are extremely long, but it happens.

Law of Large numbers

But still pretty cool.

Raptor1 · 05-16-11, 07:52 AM

This is curious, as it looks like two Minié balls collided here. As far as I know, the Russians in the Crimean War used smoothbore muskets with rifles usually only issued to skirmishers, and even then they only begun to copy the Minié ball late in the war and didn't use it very much.

Jimbuna · 05-16-11, 07:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jumpy

The Mythbusters managed to do it in an hours program

LOL

Long odds...on any day.

Betonov · 05-16-11, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joegrundman

let us guess from the total combatants about 300, 000 people, firing say 50 rounds each = 15,000,000 rounds

at least 6 bullets hit each other - pure ball-park figure

odds in the region of 2.5 million to 1. that order of magnitude anyway

Are those numbers for perfect head-on collisions like the ones on the pics ??

Chances for that are very slim. More common should be bullets grazing eachother and hitting on an angle

TorpX · 05-16-11, 04:22 PM

I have a book with a photograph of a rifle-musket where two bullets collided in the barrel (both in motion), disabling the weapon. The caption described it as a 'one in a billion shot'. When it happens "in flight", it would usually not be found, though.

Platapus · 05-16-11, 07:03 PM

So with my rat-like paranoia and distrust for anything human, I wonder how hard it would be to take two authentic bullets and manufacture this melding?

unfortunately, I have been around humans far too long to trust them.

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Feuer Frei! Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Valhalla Posts: 5,295 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 17	One To A Billion Those are two bullets, French and Russian collided in the air, back at 1854 during the war in Russia at Crimea peninsula. People say that a probability odds for this to happen is one to a billion, and to find such 150 years laters was also a great luck. Pretty dam amazing! SOURCE __________________ "History is the lies that the victors agree on"- Napoleon LINK TO MY SH 3 MODS

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joegrundman Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 2,689 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	let us guess from the total combatants about 300, 000 people, firing say 50 rounds each = 15,000,000 rounds at least 6 bullets hit each other - pure ball-park figure odds in the region of 2.5 million to 1. that order of magnitude anyway __________________ "Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs." Winston Churchill

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jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	The Mythbusters managed to do it in an hours program __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Getting hit by lightning, winning the lottery, falling out of an airplane and surviving, two bullets hitting each other... The odds are extremely long, but it happens. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	They have found several of those at different civil war battlefields here in the US, seen several in person from some of my friends I metal detect with, but think of thousands of men shooting at each other from 100 yards or less. They have a piece of tree, about 3ft long from Gettysburg that had over 800 bullets in it. In some battles they cut trees down with bullets. Took hell of men to just stand there popping off 50cal rounds at almost point blank range.....

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Thomen Ace of the Deep Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: West Virginia Posts: 1,207 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Yea, these are amazing. If you ever have the chance, visit the Gettysburg Battlefield Museum. They have a couple of these.

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Penguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Rheinische Republik Posts: 3,322 Downloads: 92 Uploads: 0	wow, impressive! I've never seen this, though I knew people who collected stuff from battlefields. Thanks for the link!

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claybirdd Frogman Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Pulaski Tennessee Posts: 290 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	truly amazing. __________________ If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, you did very poor planning.

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Raptor1 Navy Seal Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Stavka Posts: 8,211 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	This is curious, as it looks like two Minié balls collided here. As far as I know, the Russians in the Crimean War used smoothbore muskets with rifles usually only issued to skirmishers, and even then they only begun to copy the Minié ball late in the war and didn't use it very much. __________________ Current Eastern Front status: Probable Victory

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TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	I have a book with a photograph of a rifle-musket where two bullets collided in the barrel (both in motion), disabling the weapon. The caption described it as a 'one in a billion shot'. When it happens "in flight", it would usually not be found, though.

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	So with my rat-like paranoia and distrust for anything human, I wonder how hard it would be to take two authentic bullets and manufacture this melding? unfortunately, I have been around humans far too long to trust them. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.