shooting a gun in a pressurized cabin would have the same effect as
a bomb, so claiming if Americans could carry guns on plains
<snip>
- Explosive decompression can occur when a bullet is fired through the
fuselage of a pressurized airplane, causing the hole to grow dramatically
and possibly cause the plane to break up as seen in movies.
- busted
- The pressure is not high enough and the hole is too small. Explosive decompression only occurred when a hole the size of a window was made with explosives. Even then, the rush of air could not suck Buster completely out of the hole. Lastly, there are proven instances of explosive decompression where the plane was still able to maintain control and land.
- (This myth was revisited in episode 38 and it was re-busted.)
- http://mythbustersresults.com/episode10
- busted
One must first shed the statist indoctrination ...
Regard$,
--MJ
The main issue in present-day political struggles
is whether society should be organized on the basis
of private ownership of the means of production
(capitalism, the market system) or on the basis
of public control of the means of production
(socialism, communism, planned economy). Capitalism
means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers
in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters
in political matters. Socialism means full government
control of every sphere of the individual's life and
the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its
capacity as central board of production management.
There is no compromise possible between these two
systems. Contrary to popular fallacy there is no
middle way, no third system possible as a pattern
of a permanent social order. The citizens must
choose between capitalism and socialism or, as
many Americans say, between the American and the
Russian way of life. -- Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy [1944]
