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May 4, 2011 01:14 pm PDT
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Fighting words
A full bottle will strike a target with almost 70% more energy than an empty bottle. In other words, it takes less muscle work to achieve a greater striking energy when fighting with a full bottle, even though lifting the bottle requires slightly more energy. — quote from text of Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?, a peer-reviewed research paper in the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 2009....Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/sqzAT49BohY/fighting-words.html
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