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How many water balloons does it take to stop a bullet ?
youtube ^ | Jan 16, 2015 | Nat Geo

Posted on 02/15/2015 5:02:12 PM PST by dontreadthis

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To: GeronL

Only one way to find out...


61 posted on 02/15/2015 7:40:01 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: dontreadthis

It will take only one... The last one.


62 posted on 02/15/2015 7:47:35 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: dontreadthis

one - if it is big enough.


63 posted on 02/15/2015 7:52:38 PM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: dontreadthis

Was that tap or bottled water?


64 posted on 02/15/2015 8:30:34 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: dontreadthis

I guessed 2.


65 posted on 02/15/2015 8:52:21 PM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: dontreadthis

I guessed five.


66 posted on 02/15/2015 8:57:16 PM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: dontreadthis

My answer is blue.


67 posted on 02/15/2015 9:00:40 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: dontreadthis

OMG I AM RIGHT


68 posted on 02/15/2015 9:00:56 PM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: dontreadthis

Great, now pResident Obama is going to arm our border patrol with water balloons.


69 posted on 02/15/2015 9:40:56 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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70 posted on 02/15/2015 9:47:46 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: left that other site
I think it could be a prototype for a new kind of shielding around stationary objects.

I agree. It would be cheap and made of one of the most widely available commodities on earth.

71 posted on 02/15/2015 9:55:01 PM PST by PGR88
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Found these ...
72 posted on 02/15/2015 10:33:43 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: dontreadthis

Can I freeze them first?


73 posted on 02/16/2015 3:47:53 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: PGR88

It would not make a good flak jacket, though, I imagine.

:-)


74 posted on 02/16/2015 6:03:25 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: dontreadthis

Bkmk


75 posted on 02/16/2015 9:37:42 AM PST by Dr. Prepper
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To: dontreadthis

Feds to call for banning felons from owning water balloons next?


76 posted on 02/21/2015 7:57:26 AM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: central_va
A rifle round lethality in water dies off rapidly after just 1 foot.

I think those were mostly machine gun rounds.

77 posted on 02/23/2015 3:19:28 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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How much silicon rubber would protect me from a .357 mag round?


78 posted on 04/09/2015 11:02:29 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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