ON THE WEB: IMPOSSIBLE SILVER BULLETSby HazedRemember the Lone Ranger? One of his trademarks was the silver bullets which he (or his sidekick Tonto) presumably made himself. Except... no he didn't. He couldn't have. This article, from a 1964 magazine called Gun World, explains just why it would be impossible. What a shock - a television program gets scientific facts wrong! Nice to see that the equivalent of Mythbusters was alive and well so long ago. Read the article, complete with pictures, here. |