Did Charlie Kirk Fake His Death? The Squib Theory Explained
TriggerSmart
Nov 9, 2025 TriggerSmart Talks
Today, we’re diving into one of the most bizarre theories floating around — that Charlie Kirk might have faked his death using Hollywood-style squibs and fake blood effects.
Transcript
Hello and welcome back to Trigger Smart.
So, I've covered a lot of crazy out
there topics, especially with the
Charlie Kirk stuff, different theories
and things that have happened um
theoretically, right? So, this is
another theory that I find very
interesting. So, I wanted to cover this
one. And this is the famous squib load
or faking his death.
For much of the 20th century, squibs
were the backbone of cinematic violence.
The small but mighty devices have been
crucial to some of the film industry's
most delightfully bloody movies.
Today, Squibs can be seen as a standin
in the heated debate over practical
versus digital effects.
Consider this your graphic content
warning. So, as you can see there, these
squibs provide the blood effects in
Hollywood, and they've been using them
for a long time. A lot of stuff now they
do through CGI, but back in the day and
even now still to this day, they put
these packs under the skin or in certain
areas under their clothes and they use
those to explode and then you have the
gore, right? So obviously these are fake
examples. This is not real blood and
it's important to realize that uh this
is something that's been done for a very
long time. So you can pretty much
imagine they've mastered it.
A squib refers to a small explosive
device
In movies, squibs are used to simulate
gunshots hitting either inanimate
surfaces or a person.
[Applause]
The squib used on a person in film is
often referred to as a blood squib or
bullet hit squib.
There are three primary components to a
blood squib. First, there's the squib
itself, which is a small disshaped
explosive.
The strength of the squib depends on
where on the body it's being placed and
what
so it's important to remember that the
squib is just a charge and that charge
itself could theoretically do damage and
in this case they're using that squib to
explode the fake blood.
The desired outcome is
then there's the packet of fake blood
and whatever else is needed to simulate
the gore.
And finally there is a protective layer
to minimize risk to the actor.
The squib is typically assembled by a
pyro technician or someone with a T2
pyrochnics license.
They will tape the packet of fake blood
to the squib, leaving an opening in the
front so that it can explode outward.
And then that device will be taped
against the protective layer to an
actor's body or costume. Okay, so listen
what they said there. They said that
they put it close to the actor's body.
And as you can see here, it does stick
up in this case anyway. In this specific
one, it does stick up some. But I just
want you to look at this because I'm
going to show you something later. This
is why the person thinks this may be
what's actually going on.
Costume designer will have multiples of
the outfit the squibs are in for
additional takes. They will also often
need to score the fabric so that the
explosive can more easily burst through
the clothing. Usually the detonation of
a squib will employ a two-step ignition.
Now just imagine how much trust you have
to have because there's actually an
explosive on your body
where both the actor and a crew member
will have to activate it. This avoids
accidental detonations.
For gunshots into walls or elements of
the set, squib process is largely the
same except protective plating isn't
needed. Of course, use of squibs on set
should prioritize safety and attention
to detail since they are live
explosives.
Okay, so now you know what a squib is.
You see that they can use it for various
different things. And they can use it in
movies to fake gunshots, heads
exploding, and that kind of thing. and
they've been using it for a long time
and Hollywood has kind of mastered it,
right? And they also use it in walls and
things like when you see the gunshots
and you see the little pieces of the
concrete behind them kind of flying out.
That's what they use them for. All
right, so now we're going to look at
some alternatives to a squib if it was
maybe something else.
[Music]
Some productions will use compressed
air, which is safer and cheaper.
They will work similarly to squibs.
Look how bulky that is. So, some people
were saying there's like a compressed
air underneath his shirt that maybe like
shot something up or whatever. But, I
mean, if he was wearing this, there
would be no doubt that something was
wrong. And I'll show you pictures that
show what he looks like in his shirt and
his skin and everything underneath. Not
a skin underneath, obviously, but you'll
see um there are some little bulges or
some kind of like questionable areas,
but maybe it was an audio pack. I don't
know. But check this out. is squibs
except instead of an explosion is a
burst of air which pushes out the blood.
But this option is also bulkier and not
as reliable.
By far the most popular alternative is
CGI.
A CG bullet wound is cheaper as well as
much safer. So now we're going to talk
about that too. Um, there is one gif
that will probably get this video
demonetized, but there's one gif that
shows that the spot that you see on the
video doesn't align in two different
frames. It's in a different spot. It
doesn't. In other words, it doesn't move
with his body. So, let's just keep
going. It's also easier to pull off on
set since no blood has to be cleaned up
and costumes don't need to be swapped
out. CG also allows for more freedom for
gunshot placement. Squibs on or near an
actor's face, for example, are extremely
difficult and can be dangerous.
So, just based on what they just said,
just think about a squib being right on
his neck. First of all, with how big
they were, at least the ones we're
seeing here, it'd be obvious that you
see it. And second of all, it's an
explosive right there on his neck.
That's extremely dangerous. So, for them
to like fake this all would basically
have to mean they could hide it first of
all and then an explosion is happening
on his neck. I mean, it just seems a
little far-fetched to me. All right, so
now let's look at the actual theory. So,
someone sent me this. They want to
remain anonymous. Hey, thanks for
everything you're doing. Amazing job.
God bless. You need to see these high
resolution photos. I have seen these
photos and I've actually shared these
photos. But here's what he's talking
about. This is like the details, his
breakdown. So, the neck has a weird
bulge.
All right. Interesting.
Now, to me, we'll look at more photos.
You only see it here. You don't see it
in other photos. So, this might just be
the angle of his neck, the way he's
moving his neck, but it does seem very
strange like that. That looks a little
suspect to me, but could just be how his
body is, you know?
Then we have the shoulder has a weird
shape. And if you look at this, I think
it's talking about here.
It does seem like there's something
there. It's not normal. Like if you look
at my shirt, like you're not seeing what
looks like a cable or something there
maybe. Right now again, you know,
theory. So this could be a cable or
something going to a squib. I don't
know. He might be wired up in some other
way, but his chain is clearly over here,
right? And I would think if they were
doing this for real, why would they have
him wear a white shirt?
Like a white shirt while trying to hide
all this squib stuff and his chain. I
mean, like you can see his chain clear
as day through the white shirt. So if he
had anything else, like if this is a
cable or something, which it does look
kind of strange. It looks like he has
like a wire or bump or something on his
shoulder. Um, at least right here. So
this person is saying the camera is
clear, looks normal. So, I mean, based
on my videography background, yeah,
looks pretty normal. You have a battery
here. It's on a Vmount clipped on. You
have another clip with a bracket. It's
going to the camera. And then this is
just feeding the camera battery power.
So, it seems like this is pretty normal,
but it looks like something's missing
here that you see in other photos like
cuz people were talking about line of
sight from that, but there's actually
something above it that was in line of
sight um at the proper angle based on
Jason Goodman's uh theory. So, it looks
like there's something missing. Maybe
it's higher up here or he hasn't added
it yet. But this looks, you know, pretty
normal. So, if you were some kind of spy
or something and you rigged this, most
likely you'd have it go through the
lens. So, everything else would kind of
look normal. So, in this case, it looks
like the camera passes. Then this person
goes on to say, "Shirt from the back.
What are these? They look like a squib
kit." Now, I don't know what defines
something as a squib kit. We looked at
some of the images before, but basically
it looks like a little charge that would
be under the shirt. So you see these
little strange angled markings here.
So typically like this looks like packs
on his back, right? Like those aren't
normal things you would see in someone's
shirt. Like see these natural wrinkles
and lines that are in here. And you can
see like the the natural creases and
stuff that it makes. These don't look
natural at all. Neither does that one.
Right. It wouldn't be a random bump
there. Look at that. So, yeah, that's a
little suspect, a little strange. Okay,
let's keep going. Shirt from the front
looks like a bag of some sort of object.
Is he talking about this?
Could be some air under there. You know,
Charlie Kirk's a pretty slender person,
so I don't think it's a gut, right?
So, there could be something there, but
it could also just be his shirt pushing
out and from him walking. I don't know.
It's hard to tell from this angle.
What do you think? Right. And then this
is where it gets really interesting.
This person is saying that
now this has been covered. Right. This
is just a black circle, but this exactly
covers the spot where he was shot. So,
this is saying in this theory that if
you watch it, it looks like, you know,
CGI, it doesn't it's not it's not moving
with his body, right? So, in other
words, he's reacting to the shot, but
this wound, this neck wound that
everyone's seeing, which if that's an
entry wound, that's the biggest entry
wound I've ever seen. But anyway, uh it
looks like that is not moving with his
flesh. And what they did is they have
two different frames that they pulled
from a video and this is what it looks
like. So it almost looks like a frame
was pulled out from between those if
something actually like a squib or
something went off, right? Kind of
strange, kind of interesting. Now,
whenever you get stuff like this just
manipulated, you know, you have to take
it with a grain of salt. But if this is
real, then that would be very strange
that that is that that wound is not
lining up with his body movement at all.
And remember, I said I'd show a couple
shots where his neck looked normal,
right? So, you don't see that big bulge
that was on the side of his neck. And I
don't know when that bulge showed. Was
it when he first got there? Was it in
the middle of the event? Was it right
before he got shot? I don't know. But
they didn't have time to add it. When he
was walking in and being filmed by
thousands of people. And then you can
see here again, if I zoom into this
shirt,
you know, it does look very strange
right here. If I zoom in more,
you know, that doesn't look normal. That
doesn't look natural. But if you've
ever, you know, had something where you,
you know, like if you take your fingers
and you stretch them into your shirt for
a little bit and then let go, your
finger marks kind of stay there. So,
could this be something like that? I
don't know. Okay. So, now that we've
seen what a squib is, let's look at what
doesn't support that theory. So, if
people say there's state actors that are
taking him out or that took him out,
that wouldn't fit. If Tyler Robinson or
someone was on the roof and also him
being in court, maybe it's the pathy,
that also doesn't fit. And then the way
that he seized up when he got shot, that
would take some amazing acting. And
would also have to not let Erica know
what he was doing to make this actually
work. Does she know if that's what he
did? Now, here's the things that might
support it. So maybe Israel took him
into witness protection if they knew
someone was after him. Now his shirt
blowing out, similar to the mic theory,
that would make a lot of sense if a
squib exploded. His team refusing
medical to help him because they would
possibly see that he was fine. I'm
talking about the EMTs.
Them taking him out quickly with his
head flopping around, not necessarily
stable yet. That makes sense if they
were just trying to rush and get him
away. and then the TPUSA staff acting
unnatural and nonchalant in some cases
like Mikey on his phone walking away.
That would make a lot more sense if they
knew that he was fine. So, let me know
your thoughts down below. Is this
something that seems feasible? We saw
some strange things on his shirt. We saw
the neck wound that looks like it's CGI
and added. We saw the bulge in his neck
earlier in a couple different areas. I
guess theoretically it could be
possible, but it's probably pretty
far-fetched. What do you guys think? I'm
sure it's probably happened before to
other people. What do you think the
chances are that this was a faked death
in this case? Let me know your thoughts
down in the comments. And don't forget
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They Laughed at the Pendant Theory — Then the Data Came Out (Charlie Kirk)
TriggerSmart
Oct 28, 2025 TriggerSmart Talks
They said it couldn’t happen… that the pendant couldn’t possibly pierce the neck. But once again, the evidence may tell a different story. In this new entry, Kalikukul returns with another precision breakdown — exploring how the pendant’s weight, chain torque, and wound geometry may prove that penetration was possible. Using physics-based modeling, real-world parallels, and math, we dive deep into:
**** Why the “impossible” theory might hold up under pressure
**** How energy transfer and chain tension could make impact lethal
**** Feedback on the Jason Goodman bullet image
This isn’t speculation — it’s analysis.
And once you see the data, you’ll understand why so many “experts” rushed to dismiss it.
Transcript
All right. So, you guys asked for it,
you put it in messages, you put it in
comments, and I did a poll, and you guys
said you wanted to see more from Cali
Cukul, and you also wanted to see his or
her rebuttal to how the pendant could
actually go into the neck based on the
forces and things required to make that
happen. So, let's get into it. I will
warn you up front, this gets pretty
scientific. So, again, here we have
Calakul neck wound severity. As we
discussed earlier, the bullet damaged
the cervical vein, not an artery, based
on the color of the blood. The way it
flowed out instead of squirting and
further supported by only a little bit
of blood left at the scene, specifically
most likely the internal jugular vein or
the JV. There are actually more jugular
veins than that. They're part of an
interconnected system working together
as a whole. So, Calikougal is saying
most likely it was this large internal
jugular vein. a quote, "All IGV injuries
should be repaired, but may be lated if
hemodymodynamically unstable, meaning it
should be attempted to repair a cut
internal jugular vein, but it's also
common to just liate or tie it up if the
repair is impossible, which tells us
about the high tolerance of the body in
regard to this venus network." So, he or
she is basically saying if one of these
veins in here gets hit, most likely they
will seal it off because there's plenty
of other networks to carry the blood
around. A quote from an article on neck
injuries in which there are two cases of
internal jugular vein damage. Both venus
injuries were liated at the follow-up 12
and 21 days. Both patients were doing
well with no complications. The main
risk is the immediate bleeding before
managing to stop it and the risk of the
vein sucking in air. While still
dangerous if it is far less dangerous
than a cut artery. So in other words, if
you were to have a artery get slashed in
your throat, it's much more dangerous
than if you got a vein slashed in your
throat. So, I will say based on those
videos, there does seem to be a lot of
blood that comes out initially that
initial spurt. Charlie's wound was
attended to within seconds by his
trained security staff, which is as
close to immediate hope as it gets.
Charlie's wound was definitely serious,
but it most likely wasn't him being dead
before he touched the ground as some
suggested, at least not because of the
bleeding. So, it could still be because
of, you know, if his vertebrae got hit
directly by the bullet or something
similar. Calakul saying that the
bleeding alone doesn't seem to be the
main cause of death. There was of course
the decorticate posturing which
indicates severe brain damage. It occurs
for a specific combination of some parts
of the brain and motor pathways damaged
and still others functional as I
proposed. That might have happened by
the bullet hitting the occipital bone
the back of the head causing the trauma
underneath it and then traveling along
the spine. that was severe but might not
have been immediately fatal either as
statistically there's a 37% survival
rate connecting to this posturing a
quote following a head injury only 37%
of patients displaying decorticate
posture and 10% of those displaying
disberate posture will survive saying
the overall point is that his condition
was severe but I think there potentially
could have been some chance of him
surviving many seem to say there wasn't
so here's basically saying that based on
their investigation So far it seems like
the injuries that he got even with the
decorticate posture and that kind of
stuff could have theoretically been
survivable about 35% survival rate or
something like that based on literature.
So some people are saying that Charlie's
still alive that this was all staged and
everything else but there is a very very
small chance and again this is just
theories that he could still possibly be
alive
but not well. All right. Now here
Calakuch talks about the potential
bullet that's cut on video. Now, this is
something that if you look on my
channel, there's an interview with Jason
Goodman, and he talks about the
compression and the different things
that can happen that makes it so that
the the way the bullets appear are out
of order based on certain compression
settings and the way that um video
compression and codecs handle
everything. And this is Cali Cuckle kind
of speaking to that a little bit. The
potential bullet on video, Kelly is
talking about these previous images that
Jason Goodman had put together. Mr.
Goodman presented his theory that the
bullet was caught on video. He merged
parts of the images from a 20 fps and a
30 fps versions of the same footage to
get three dots in an almost perfect line
right around the moment Charlie's been
shot. Although it happens to coincide
with one of the very possible
trajectories, I have to say I think it
might not be the bullet that hit
Charlie. One frame before the middle dot
appears. I only have the 20 fps version
with two of the dots. The middle dot
appears. Still no effect on Charlie. You
can see that here.
the dot moves to the upper right. You
see it up here. And this again was in
the last video that I showed. Another
viewer had sent in some video and it had
basically seen the same thing, right?
So, Charlie shirts going up. It appears
that maybe he's been hit here or that's
his mic. I I can't really tell from this
angle. Um, but there's something going
on here, but there's also what appears
to be a projectile or bullet up here.
Kelly and some other people theorize
that the bullet that Jason Goodman is
seeing is not the one that hit him. It's
just one that's flying by, which would
go back to the multiple shooters from
different positions theory. Calakulo
says the dot is quite slow for a bullet.
Let's say the distance from Charlie to
the edge of the tent is 12 ft. That the
right dot is near the edge of the tent
and the left dot is right at his head.
That means distance between every two of
the dots could be 6 ft. And I believe
that Jason Gibbons said about 5t if I
remember correctly. The 20 fps video
means it snapshot every 50 milliseconds.
That means the dot moves 120 ft per
second. Your typical rifle bullet speeds
are 2300 to 3500. Low velocity PCP air
guns seem to start around 300. The
bullet appears to move away from
Charlie, which is what a lot of people
are saying, and that's what Jason
Goodman was kind of um trying to correct
with his merged image and the
compression and codec issues is that it
was going towards Charlie, not away from
him. Mr. Goodman says that this can be
caused by technical reasons of video
mixing up the order of some portions of
the image when encoding suggesting the
dots actually went towards Charlie.
Although I must admit I haven't observed
such phenomenon in compressed videos
with some of their small flying objects
like for instance a bug jumping around
instead of flying in a straight line.
Let's assume it is possible but I would
say uncommon. It would also be good to
see at which point the video of the left
dot appeared rather than a merged still
image. The dots aren't in a straight
line. Mr. Goodman says it was difficult
to align the two versions of the video.
I'm not certain in which ways it would
be difficult to align two versions of
the very same video, even if one video
is cropped in differently. It seems like
a matter of stopping both videos at the
same anchoring moment and then shifting
one video on top of the other until the
scene overlaps perfectly. In no way do I
aim to somehow debunk Mr. Goodman's
theory. I'm glad he's doing his
investigation. However, it seems
uncertain whether the dots are the
bullet. One of the things we could use
is a clear 3D model of the scene and all
possible trajectories of the three dots
could form within it as it is a bit
ambiguous where the dots are actually
within the environment. So like you can
see here the necklace is is already off
and you can see this
object here.
So if the bullet came from the back or
the projectile came from the back, he
wouldn't already be reacting and his
chain wouldn't be flying off. So again,
does this mean that there were possibly
two shooters or more than two shooters
and one missed and you see that bullet
flying past and another one hit him at
the same time? I think it'd be pretty
rare. It'd have to be very synchronized
to be able to hit Charlie Kirk and in
the same frame catch a bullet flying
past. At the speed the bullets move,
that'd be pretty rare. So, this seems to
be a very extremely coordinated
operation if it was more than one person
or maybe a synchronized set of uh
mechanical guns, maybe like in a camera
or even just regular guns that are have
synchronized triggers. I don't know. I
don't I don't know much about that
technology, but as you can see here,
it's very strange that he's already been
hit here. Chain's already flying off,
and there's this little projectile right
here. There was no exit wound behind him
anyway. And if this was coming in from
the back, then that means there's more
than one shot coming from the back.
Again, this is very strange, and these
images seem to cause more questions than
answers. Calakulo says, "Still the
coincidence with the time of the
shooting is striking. I can imagine the
dots being relevant even if it's not the
bullet. perhaps some fragment of
something. The direction of the dot
seemed to match the direction of the
necklace whipped back right after the
dot flew that way. Interestingly enough
though, the middle dot, the first one in
my 20 fps video appears before any
effect was apparent on Charlie. Not even
the bulging shirt in the back. And then
I asked Caliukul, I said Valhalla VFT
and some other people have kind of
reviewed this pendant theory that I've
put out there from Calikuch. You know,
they were kind of saying like a lot of
it possibly made sense. some of the the
dynamics and the ballistics made sense,
but the one part they couldn't get
behind is the fact that the pendant
would actually go up into the neck. So,
basically saying that it wasn't
theoretically possible based on what
they'd seen. Now, these are people that
have seen wartime. These are people that
are very experienced in ballistics and
the dynamics of guns and those type of
things. So, um I can't argue with them
personally because I haven't been in
those situations. But Kakuch basically
is given his or her rendition of how
this could theoretically be possible.
They go on to say the calculation will
definitely involve estimating cavitation
size and duration. I've also seen some
YouTubers misunderstanding and thinking
that the expanding chest was supposed to
whip up the pendant, which is not the
case at all. I don't even think the
chest expanded from any cavitation, just
the neck. Interesting. All right. Now, I
think some of this is going to get into
some nerdy math regarding the pendant's
ability to gain sufficient speed and
penetrate the neck. Mathematically
describing a pendant accelerated by the
expanding circle turns out to be quite
difficult. I tried my best. The main
point is there are two accelerating
factors. One is the expanding circle. It
has increasingly greater effect as a
necklace gets more in contact with the
circle. And then there's the whipping
effect. Due to the law of conservation
of momentum just by the portion of the
free necklace out of contact with the
circle decreasing the speed of the
remaining out of contact portion
increases.
The two effects combine. The whipping
effect multiplies the speed received by
the pendant through the necklace from
the expanding circle. So if you combine
the whipping effect of the chain going
around the body from the initial impact
as well as the expansion from the
cavitation, both of those forces
increase the amount of power that could
project that pendant into the neck. And
that's kind of similar to if you see if
you have a car and it hits something at
60 mph, you have a certain amount of
damage. But if you have two cars coming
towards each other 60 mph, that's 120
mph collision. And then they quote this
resource, the minimum velocity required
to penetrate the skin is about 40 to 50
m/s. All right, so let's check out this
link. So it goes to bhu.ac.in,
which is banaris Hindu University. And
if we look at that link
terminal ballistics
as we go through here talking about
concepts of wound ballistics target site
it's saying the minimum velocity
required to penetrate the skin is about
40 to 50 m/s. This is known as threshold
velocity. Its value for bone penetration
is about 60 m/s.
Wounding effect of a projectile will
depend upon several things. The target
site whether it's the front or the back
of the body. uh the neck. So, one thing
to think about here and consider is that
as the neck is expanding from
cavitation, the walls of the neck are
getting much thinner. So, I would think
this 40 to 50 m/s probably goes down
quite a bit with that kind of pressure,
especially with it going towards it.
Also, the velocity of the projectile,
the constructional features, and then
the range of firing. So, how close or
far that person was. This also depends
on the shape of the object. The cross
was pretty pointy and hung by his top
arm. So, it is bound to travel with the
top point first. So, as you can see
here, we have the chain and then this
would be the cross or the pendant.
They're basically saying here that it's
most likely that this top portion is
what went into the neck in this theory.
And then they show the necklace again.
Yeah, this this top edge here. Now, a
lot of people are pointing out this. It
looks like this is damaged on this side.
It looks like a piece of that cross
maybe broke off and was put back on or
maybe if there's I can't tell if there's
like little diamonds or something here,
but it looks like they're missing from
this other side. So, could it have
possibly been that piece that
penetrated? I don't know. To better see
the acceleration sources, notice how the
necklace wraps increasingly tighter
around the circle with the length of the
free part decreasing.
So, this would be Charlie's neck and
this would be the pendant and necklace
hanging down.
So, as cavitation happens of the neck,
the forces on the outside of the chain
would increase, pulling this closer and
faster into the tissue. Here's the
calculation for concrete numbers for a
smaller and faster cavitation and neck
and necklace links close to Charlie's.
They're saying if anyone sees errors or
is able to improve the formulas better,
then let them know. There are vastly
better mathematicians out there than I
am, that's for sure. And then they kind
of walk us through it. The neck expands.
Dependent P moves up. So here's the
neck. Neck is expanding. The pendant P
starts moving towards the body. The
parts of the necklace close to the neck
wrap around the neck. So these parts
here, that' be L2s, are going to get
closer and closer to the neck as the
neck expands out. So I won't get super
deep into the math here, but you can see
it. You can screenshot it and test it
out if you need to, but basically
they're estimating that it was about two
2 1/2 milliseconds duration for the
expansion phase. That's for the
cavitation of the neck. They estimate 57
cm necklace length and then 40 cm neck
circumference. So that would leave 12.7
cm neck diameter. So distance traveled
along about 8 cm velocity 32 m/s
strengthened by the whipping effect
given by the ratio of the L2 before and
after cavitation. In other words, how
much is it shortened within that period
about 59 m/s. Now he was saying earlier
he or she was saying earlier that it
would take 40 to 50 m/s to pierce human
flesh or to pierce the neck based on the
estimation of the distance traveled and
the cavitation it happening within 2 and
12 milliseconds and then the whipping
effect that adds to that from the chain
would make it 59 m/s would make it 59
m/s in their estimation. Then there was
a comment from you guys. Why doesn't it
happen all the time to people who were
shot in the neck while wearing a
necklace with a pendant? And Kakuko
says, I think it might be because rarely
the bullet travels vertically, making
the neck cavitation in the horizontal
plane to the side so efficient and
prominent. So in other words, in a lot
of cases, the bullet's going straight in
and cavitation goes perpendicular. So if
the bullet goes in here, the expansion
is going to be up and down, right? So
it's going to go up into the brain and
down into the body. In this case, in
this theory from Calakul and also Jason
Goodman, if there was a shot from the
back is that the bullet hit the
occipital lobe and went down the spine
and that vertical downward motion would
cause horizontal expansion of the neck.
So basically what they're saying is it's
rare for a bullet to go down the body as
opposed to into the body. All right,
then we have some more. Kylukul says the
whipping effect because people are going
to say, "Well, why would the chain be
whipping around?" A whip is thick at the
handle and gets thinner throughout its
length. You swing the grip, slow
movement of a heavy mass, and as that
energy gets passed over to lighter and
lighter parts of the whip, it has to
move faster and faster for the momentum
to stay the same. Momentum equals weight
times velocity. So, thanks to that, the
speed at the end of a whip can reach up
to twice the speed of sound. And then
Cali Cougall comes back. I apologize. I
found some numerical errors in my
original calculation. And then Cali
Cougle comes back. Same information
expanding circle whipping effect, but
they're saying using the calculations
below for I believe realistic parameters
neck size cavitation and duration
necklace length. I've come to the
possible final velocity of the pendant
of 45 m/s which equals 148 ft per
second. Remember it takes 40 to 50 m/s
to break the skin. So, I would say it's
in the ballpark of being possible, and
it might not be correct to discard it as
absolutely impossible. The above range
is certainly approximate, and I wouldn't
say anything just under 40 m/s cannot
pierce the skin anymore. The
calculations and chosen parameters might
of course be a little bit different than
reality, affecting the results in both
directions, lowering or increasing the
velocity. For instance, if the necklace
was slightly longer, it would decrease
the velocity. If it was slightly
shorter, it would increase it.
Shortening the necklace would increase
the speed quite rapidly. So, here's the
new math. Go ahead and screenshot this
and test it out.
Same here. Screenshot that. Test it out.
And the final test that out. So, they
landed on distance traveled of about
6.85 cm and a velocity of about 27.4
m/s. That is from the cavitation.
And then that's strengthened by the
whipping effect given by the ratio after
cavitation. How much the chain shortened
during that period. And that came to
about 45 meters per second, which is
within the 40 to 50 that is said that is
needed to pierce flesh. All right, so
there you go. For everyone that wanted
to see Kakugo's response to if it could
actually pierce the skin or not, um,
another possibility is maybe it didn't
actually fully penetrate. It just had to
nick it, right? All it has to do is is
cut open the surface of that vein and
it's going to burst open with all the
pressure. So, let me know your thoughts.
Is this still plausible? I know some of
you were saying that everything else
about the theory kind of combined with
the Jason Goodman shot from the back
made sense to you. Does this make even
more sense based on some of this math
and other things that 40 to 50 meters
per second is what it takes to kind of
break open the skin or to pierce the
skin? And Calukul estimates it around 45
or so meters/s. And as always, don't
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