BobCo19-65 wrote:
Sylvan, I must say that you sound very intellectual to me. Maybe you would care to to discuss Dr. Ashby's ("idiotic" as you put it) theories directly with him. I must say that I would love to see that discussion take place.
I appologize if I sounded arrogant but what I said was accurate. I suspect that Dr. Ashby's statement was an exageration for the purpose of making a point. The point being that there are other more important things to be concerned about regarding penetration on a live animal than KE. With that I would agree. I'm sure 1 sentence out of whatever paper this was doesn't tell his whole story. But back to the sentence as written; you needn't get past freshman physics or a short course in mechanics to know it is incorrect to say that KE has nothing to do with penetration. I don't need to discuss this with him as these discussions have already taken place as early as Newton in the 1600's. If there were any physicist or mathmaticians that argued Dr. Ashby's sentence they lost the argument a long long time ago.