Daily Archives: Jul 4, 2026

Any caliber can be lethal with ideal shot placement. The truism is echoed in gun stores, on shooting ranges, and throughout the internet forums. However, as hundreds of thousands of ballistic tests and actual shootings illustrate, there are boundaries to that advice. A bullet that cannot penetrate as deeply...

Image Credit to Wikimedia Commons The faint speck that ATLAS in Chile detected on July 1, 2025, has become perhaps the most watched object in modern astronomy. Confirmed to be the third known interstellar visitor after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, comet 3I/ATLAS is not only larger and faster than its predecessors...

Any caliber can be lethal with ideal shot placement. The truism is echoed in gun stores, on shooting ranges, and throughout the internet forums. However, as hundreds of thousands of ballistic tests and actual shootings illustrate, there are boundaries to that advice. A bullet that cannot penetrate as deeply...