Does a watermelon really represent a human head?
The idea is a tough covering over a very delicate, wet interior. True, a melon's outer skin isn't as tough as a human skull is, but for movies and TV, the sound made when a melon is struck by a bullet or hit with a hard object is, unfortunately, very similar to the sound of a human skull being hit in the same way. In fact, in his new autobiography, "Mrs. Kennedy and Me", Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who was responsible for Mrs. Kennedy's safety during her White House years, was only about three steps behind the presidential limousine when the fatal bullet slammed into President Kennedy's skull on November 22, 1963. Agent Hill describes the sound as having been "just like a melon being dropped on concrete" and he has never and will never forget it. It's hard to talk about, but apparently the sound of a melon being split open is pretty accurate to that of a human skull being destroyed in the same manner.
Is a melon really as tough as a human head or even close?
Well that should tell you something huh?.....No melons are not nearly as tough as a human skull. In fact, TV hypes the use of melons as good stand-ins for human skulls, "they are not" any forensic scientist will tell you that the human skull is one of the most durable organic protection devices ever created with exception to the whale skull and the ram and buffalo skull. Myself?...I've been shot in the head twice and the bullets on both occasions bounced off of my head and they were both at only about 14 feet away.....I have even fallen and split my head open with only a scalp wound, it bled alot but I did not fracture the bone of my skull, it knocked me out though. The human skull, especially in infants is super pliable but it can and will protect the brain from some of the worst falls and accidents imaginable.
Is a watermelon a remotely close simulation of a human head in weapons demonstrations?
Not really. Both a watermelon and a human head are largely composed of water, but a watermelon doesn't have a skull.Watch any watermelon get hit with a handgun and it'll be pretty much demolished. If you find a video of a guy getting shot in the head on liveleak or something similar with a handgun, it doesn't react the same. I don't recommend finding those sorts of videos, they are extremely hard to watch. I would actually recommend avoiding those sorts of videos, but they are out there if you are so inclined.
Can a Bullet really decapitate a human?
I remember watching a civil war documentary and it was showing how men had half there heads blown off by a single rifle bullet. Is there any hand gun or ammo that is know to rip a head off with no problem? Just curious lol.
How strong is the human skull compared to metals known to humanity?
Not very.
Is an 80 pound pistol crossbow powerful enough to kill a human?
This is rated by Quora as a “Top Question for” me. I must have irritated Quora somewhere along the line.OK, taking it from the top, if you take an 80-pound pistol crossbow and repeatedly strike a human with it on various sensitive parts of the body with sufficient energy imparted to it, yes, you can kill the human.If you load a quarrel with a hunting or target point into the 80-lb crossbow pistol and raise it to aim at your intended victim, however, you are exerting far too much effort to do the job properly, and will probably have difficulty aiming it, let alone holding it steady enough to actually hit your intended victim. Most crossbow pistols do not weigh 80 pounds, for the simple reason that it would be just stinking hard to lift and aim. You’d be far better off beating your victim with it.Now the really troubling part of the question: if you had a pistol with an 80-pound pull rating, you would have to load it with a pretty blunt quarrel and fire from a pretty long distance _not_ to be able to kill your target… but then, if you had a crossbow bolt with a properly sharpened head, intended for any crossbow (even one that was as heavy as 80 pounds) and took it in your fist and thrust it into your victim, with some care for where you thrust it, or little aim if you did it often enough, you surely could cause your victim to decease.What you don’t take into account is that most people you might think it was really cool to kill with a crossbow (either by beating them with one that weighs 80 lbs or one that you could actually pick up) aren’t going to be terribly easy to surprise, and it is likely that they will be carrying something considerably more powerful. Only a fool carries an 80-lb crossbow pistol into a gun fight, as the saying goes.
Why are the zombie heads so soft in The Walking Dead? Where did their skull go?
I'm usually happy to suspend disbelief for a good serial TV show or movie, but TWD is starting to push my suspension too hard. Over tens of thousands of years in brutal, violent environments, the human skull evolved to protect its cargo from damage by accidents and willful malice. The skull is thickest in the top and front, where clubs held by other men were most often aimed. If a human of average strength were to try to stick a knife in there, chances are a glancing blow might chip some bone. If the knife were heavy enough and the strike hard enough, the knife blade would tend to get stuck fast in the bone and require some strong pulling to extract. The best weapon for skull shots is a fairly heavy hammer, aimed at the side of the skull where the bone is thinner. The worst weapon is a license plate, laughingly used by Erin, who should have sustained good lacerations to his ungloved hands when his Alaska plate would have more realistically gouged the skin of the zombie's head but otherwise do nothing to penetrate the skull. Immediately following the license plate insult, Daryl Dixon crushes or takes off three zombie heads by swinging a heavy chain at them. Sorry, but no. I had no problem with Abraham swinging a makeshift flail and crushing some heads but I wasn't believing a triple-decapitation with a chain swung like it was. A man can't realistically manage the speed needed to do that. To more directly answer the question, the prop skull has been made no more substantial than a piñata and turned into a prop to be nauseatingly pierced, crushed and severed by fairly slight people in the interest of helping the story to progress.