Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet?
DBT@lemmy.world 1 day agoHis main points were that see the body armor bounce when slowing the video way down, and that the caliber used would’ve blown his neck open, not just pierce the skin leaving a small, clean hole.
I think I already mentioned that I don’t know shit about guns, so my reply to that was, “huh.”
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Here’s what a 7.62x63 (“.30-06”) does to level III armor (think basic rifle protection, the kind that would actually stop the round that hit Kirk). This particular one is a large, very conspicuous plate of steel 8.5 mm thick and weighing 4 kg. You don’t just slot this in under your shirt and look inconspicuous.
And it would have to have been hard armor, i.e. a rigid plate. Soft armor 1) wouldn’t have stopped that round (that’d be more like a step down to level IIIA on the high end) and 2) would’ve embedded the round rather than ricocheting it.