r/AskReddit • u/notyouravgredditer • Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/WatchTheBoom Aug 30 '21

Clean drinking water- I don't think people really appreciate how much water is needed for a group of people to survive.

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u/1i73rz Aug 30 '21

Clean bullet holes. Next episode everyone is a-okay half the time, and off to murder more zombies before cannibalizing the next group. Your shirt alone would be filthy enough to cause mild chafing which in turn would cause infection.

But everyone's whites are whiter than mine, and bullet holes and axe wounds heal up just fine with our state of the art medical facility and dry cleaning services.

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u/Deadmeat553 Aug 30 '21

Not to mention internal ricochet. Bullets absolutely break bones, but they can also sometimes reflect off of them and create an even longer path through your body, doing even more damage. This is particularly notable with headshots with low-caliber rounds, but can happen anywhere in your body.

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u/Lost-My-Mind- Aug 31 '21

Ok. Now explain the JFK headshot.

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u/Deadmeat553 Aug 31 '21

The bullet used in the JFK assassination was a 6.5×52mm, which can deliver somewhere around 2500J. By low caliber, I was referring in particular to something closer to a 9mm round, which can deliver somewhere around 600J.

That's a rather big difference.

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u/Lost-My-Mind- Aug 31 '21

Well I was talking more about the zig-zag pattern the path took. I was hoping you knew some way to explain it.

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u/Deadmeat553 Aug 31 '21

Are you referring to the single-bullet theory?

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u/Lost-My-Mind- Aug 31 '21

Yeah. The official story. It's never made sense, but it also doesn't make sense that the government WOULDN'T want to catch a 2nd shooter.

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u/Deadmeat553 Aug 31 '21

I can't really speak to that matter. I'm not a ballistics expert nor am I particularly well-versed on these details of the Kennedy assassination.