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I've wondered if it's theoretically possible for a sniper to fire down another sniper's scope, as was shown in "Saving Private Ryan." In fact, such a thing has happened: Carlos Hathcock, Marine Corps sharpshooter, managed just such a feat during the Vietnam War.
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Author Raj Patel, who recently appeared on The Colbert Report, is having a tough time convincing members of a cult that he's not, in fact, their messiah.
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There were two attacks on the US during WWI: the Bombardment of Orleans, in Massachusetts, and the Black Tom explosion, in New Jersey. The latter damaged the Statue of Liberty badly enough that the torch has been off limits to tourists ever since.
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This is a pretty funny parody.
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Mythbusters did the the same thing with the sniper scope and they had decent results. And I think there was a movie about a Russian v. German sniper that shot out the scope. Great wikipedia entry….
Great link about the Maitreya! What a gas. Thanks for sharing. :)
There’s a History Channel show that comes on every once in a while. It delves into snipers and talks about Hathcock and goes through the whole sniper shot through another sniper’s barrel. I believe he also killed someone from one and a half miles away.
I don’t know that God can give clearer signs that he has a plan for you than having group of people you don’t know identify you as the messiah.
I didn’t know that some guy was identified as a reincarnation of a Hindu goddess and now lives in a temple in Gujarat. Some unemployed guy from the UK now a Hindu goddess. God works in mysterious ways. =)
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/267526/march-15-2010/i-can-t-believe-it-s-not-buddha—raj-patel
HES,
You are thinking of ‘Enemy at the Gates.’ It was loosely based on a real story, although I don’t think that Vasily Zaytsev ever shot through Herr Koning’s scope during the actual 3 day duel.
Mythbusters recreated something approximating the bullet through the scope thing using Vietnam-era optics, but they also found that it’s impossible to accomplish the same thing with today’s optics: there are more lenses in a modern scope than in a historical piece, meaning there are too many convex surfaces that the bullet has to pass through without being deflected into the body of the scope itself.
I don’t know if anyone ever managed it before Hathcock and simply never had it confirmed, but I’m reasonable certain it will never happen again.