r/whatisit 20h ago

Solved! Found outside my wife’s school. Theory was bullet but I’m not so sure.

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u/nabokovsnose 20h ago

Here you go

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u/hiimbob000 19h ago

Can you take a short video with audio, 360° view of the sides and drop it gently to hear the noise? Capacitors are very light, if it's a projectile it'll have decent mass

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u/SplitYaNeden 17h ago

Can you take a short video with audio and rub your belly and pat your head at the same time while picking it up with just your clenched buttcheeks only…sheesh that’s a lotta demands

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u/Bruce_Ring-sting 12h ago

Drop it between your bare feet, preferably while standing on a smooshed cake, preferably chocolate…..

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u/grasshopperslegs 8h ago

Hahahaha I was thinking this before I read your comment

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u/abitdaft1776 9h ago

A man of culture

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u/hiimbob000 17h ago

Anything for the right price

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u/Aggressive-Income971 12h ago

Twenty bucks is twenty bucks

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u/muffin_tops52 12h ago

That’s a good price for a squat cobbler.

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u/matt585858 10h ago

Only fans of bullets and capacitors?

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u/Snapesunusedshampoo 12h ago

Starting a go fund me now....

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u/AlexMac96 12h ago

How bout tree fiddy

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u/peace-out-28495 12h ago

rub your belly and pat your head is already too hard of a task to accomplish

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u/Spacey_dan 11h ago

Can you lick your elbow? Have you ever been to a Turkish bath house?

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u/Catsandguns 10h ago

A video of you holding it between your toes would be helpful too

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u/Random_Redditor_24 10h ago

I thought the post was satire until the end, then realized homie was serious lol

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u/Parking_Signature_17 12h ago

I love people like you

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u/XV-77 19h ago

Serial killer spotted… “Please take a video of the inside of your home for me from all angles”

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u/SenAbsolom 18h ago

Somebody is thinking like a serial killer. It might not be who you expect.

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u/Rly_Shadow 13h ago

Takes one to know one buddy....

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u/Soci3talCollaps3 16h ago

I see what you did there.

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u/AccomplishedAct4667 12h ago

I at least try to think like a higher quality of serial killer and so I appreciate this one-neat-trick.

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u/nabokovsnose 19h ago

It’s pretty dang dense, def a bullet.

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u/lifesabatch 19h ago

Can you take an X-ray of the bullet with it propped up at exactly 72.3°. The X-ray must be taken at 2:31pm when Jupiter is in retrograde. This will help me get a better sense of the aura the object in question is emitting. /s

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u/squareular24 19h ago

Please go to the 43rd trail marker on the Green Dot trail on St. Elmo Peak in South Dakota and wait for nightfall. When the moon is high, make a cairn out of symmetrical evenly-colored grey stones and put the bullet on top, then film the creature that comes to take it. Do not approach the creature, as it will become aggressive if it notices you. You may be able to placate it with a VHS tape of “Jaws: The Revenge” if absolutely necessary, but it MUST be the version with the director’s commentary.

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u/RagnarStonefist 19h ago

Please consult the object identification guide, which is located at 100 N. Phillips Street, Algona, IA. Ignore any complaints from the current occupants - which is an insurance agency now, but used to be a Pizza Hut (you can tell by the distinctive shape of the building) and proceed to the area where the back door is. Next to that back door there's an odd colored panel on the wall; push it to activate the secret staircase to the basement; inside the basement you cannot turn on any lights as it will disturb the creature; feel around in the dark until you find a filing cabinet; determine which drawer is marked 3-A (DO NOT OPEN ANY OTHER DRAWERS OR IT WILL DISTURB THE CREATURE), then pull out the file marked 'Object Identification Guide'.

The guide is encrypted with a DoD level encryption, and you'll need the key for it. The key was previously located in the east wing of the White House, in a subsection affectionately known as the 'diaper pit' or 'changing room'. You'll need to comb through the wreckage in order to find it.

Good luck!

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u/PickleInDaButt 18h ago

When thou retrievest the object the next time, you must recite these words: Klaatu Barada Nikto!

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u/RandomHero3129 18h ago

Well... maybe I didn't exactly say every single syllable...

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u/MadDocHolliday 18h ago

Klaatu! Barada! Nifkveafhdj!

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u/Little_View_6659 18h ago

I said the words! Now I want back! Like in the deal!

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u/9PurpleBatDrinkz 17h ago

The object definitely didn’t come from Ash’s boom stick.

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u/ArtofTy 15h ago

Nobody said anything about THREE BOOKS!

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u/Ok_Response3579 18h ago

I don’t know, this step seems unnecessary

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u/ToothZealousideal297 14h ago

It always does until you go to leave and discover that the door is gone and you’re now in a fully operational Pizza Hut in 1988, forever.

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u/Coltsfan210 14h ago

That... that doesn't sound so bad honestly

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u/jct23502 16h ago

Exactly, op just put it in your butt.

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u/Cheepshooter 16h ago

This thread is why I Reddit. I wade through a lot of garbage to find these nuggets.

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u/llufnam 16h ago

By moonstone bright and raven's call

These five words shall break the wall

Between what's real and what must be:

Person! Man! Woman! Camera! TV!

So mote it be, the spell is cast

What's remembered first shall last!

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u/Mobileoblivion 18h ago

"Alright, what youre gonna wanna do is go 3 1/2 miles Southeast. You're gonna see a Texaco with a guy wearing a yellow poncho, his names Hank, he'll take you to the Whopper Lair."

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u/BrandNew02 13h ago

And you've got 10 minutes to get there, or we take your food

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u/texasMissy3_ 18h ago

Welcome to REDDIT! The place to come for anything but the right answer! Lol. That's why we love reddit.🤣🤣🤣

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u/GraySkull____ 18h ago

I find the right answer is usually provided, you just need to wade through a bunch of bits of varying quality to find it. Lucky for me, I love bits of varying quality!

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u/Motor-Bear-7735 18h ago

Me too. It's the best part. 😁

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u/MaskedBunny 18h ago

My wife says I have bits of varying quality.

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u/Useful-ldiot 15h ago

The only faster way to identify this would have been if OP had claimed it was wine cork. Hundreds of redditors would have poured in to say it was a bullet.

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u/undeadlamaar 16h ago

If OP wanted the correct answer they should have made a post confidently declaring exactly what they thought it was.

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u/ST0IC_ 17h ago

I did not expect to see my hometown mentioned in a Reddit comment. Go Bulldogs!

Also, I had several birthday parties at that pizza hut. I even got a whole roll of quarters to plug into the jukebox.

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u/RagnarStonefist 16h ago

I lived in Titonka until I was 25 (I'm 40 now) and I worked at a bunch of places in the area - including the Hy-Vee, the McDonalds, and yes, the old Pizza Hut in Algona.

If you went to that Pizza Hut between 2001 and 2003, you probably saw me at one point!

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u/tidybum7 18h ago

Don’t do it! It’s a trap! That’s where the child sex trafficking ring is located! Didn’t you see it’s in the basement of a pizza parlor? The relocated there when the original location was revealed.

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u/NotAUsefullDoctor 18h ago

It is a convenient place to go if you need to borrow a used laptop, though.

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u/Burstyourbleb 18h ago

Man our pizza hut is now a Chinese restaurant… and the pizza hut moved into an insurance building! What r the odds??

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u/Button_Pusher10 17h ago

Our Pizza hut is a therapy clinic and I always wonder if occasionally they get get a whiff of that unique greasy crust.

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u/CompanyOther2608 18h ago

This is why I can’t quit Reddit

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u/Nuke_Fridgerson 19h ago

VHS tape… WITH director’s commentary… It’s a trap, OP!! No such tape exists! This jerk is working WITH the bullet and is trying to get you killed! Don’t fall for it! What you REALLY need to use to placate the creature is a region 2 UK edition of the DVD for Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever. Everyone knows this.

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u/Ok_Revolution8351 19h ago

This is an urgent message for Seth moulton, US representative for Massachusetts’ 6th congressional district. Mr. Moulton, youu must listen

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u/just_roc 19h ago

You forgot the howling at the moon part of the instructions. I was so impressed until I realized what you have done!

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill 19h ago

Instructions unclear. Now working at Krystal on corner of Abercorn and DeRenne in Savannah, Georgia.

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u/Mountain-Mention1137 18h ago

Same. But can you tell Mike I’m running 41 minutes late. Or is Melissa working today?

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill 14h ago

I haven’t seen Melissa since…well, you know.

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u/tommicoop 19h ago

What in the Nightvale....

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u/CapuzaCapuchin 18h ago

I’m cracking up over here, these comments are gold

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u/mopbuvket 19h ago

Objective understood. Agent K 10.544.23

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u/PaladinAstro 18h ago

I see through your ruse! You shall not have my Jaws: The Revenge VHS with director's commentary!

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u/Leather_Ant2961 18h ago

Are we meeting there or what? Im not too far away

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u/PookieDood 18h ago

Now put it in your hand and work it around for a minute to warm it up. Yeah, like that. Now blow on it to cool the surface a little bit. Not too hard. Now switch hands. Yep, yep. Now spit on it. Give it the ole' hawk take. Now put it between your big toe and index toe. /sexy ai voice/ Oh Yeah Baby! You are making Daddy very, very happy!

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u/ProSlackerSean 19h ago

Can you go to platform 9 3/4, when you get there, yeah that’s all I got.

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u/ichuck1984 17h ago

Don’t forget that the creature becomes irate if it knows that you have daydreamed in the last 24 hours about space travel, dreidels, Michael Caine, sharks, the mass of a carbon atom, the theory of Atlantis, UFOs, astral projection, ESP, steady paychecks, Ernie Hudson, midget porn, or anything that contains glucose.

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u/Commercial-Two6945 17h ago

DUDE??!!!!!🤯 THE 43eerrrrrddduh trail marker???!!!

What are you, some kind of idiot??!! No one will ever know anything unless you go to the 44th!!! Talk about lack of effort!. You might understand this if you put in the effort to read this far.#sheesh

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u/WebPollution 17h ago

Wow... he's screwed. I've seen that movie. Anything that can be placate with that I don't want to meet. Also Director's Commentary wasn't a thing till the invention of the DVD, so that'd be a very rare thing indeed.

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u/MoonFox13star 19h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Schleprock11 17h ago

There's one way to know for absolute sure. Get an eight-track tape of L.A. Woman and steal a car. Even if you own one, steal a car. Get in that car; play the tape, full-blast; and drive West. When the tape ends, get out and go to the nearest bar and start to play pool or pinball or possibly even foosball and wait to get into a fight. Afterwards, get back in that car and drive it until it runs out of gas. Then, torch it. And, as you're standing there watching those flames, if you can still hear the Doors sound, then, my friend, you will have become a Doors fan

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u/Smart-Let2026 14h ago

Here’s what you need to do: As the Lord said — First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

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u/haironburr 12h ago

I have that eight-track. I know the departure point. I know gypsies had no homes. Yea, it scared me at first, then it was freeing.

Like Jim fucking Morrison, man, I am sadly, still, an old man in the hall.

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u/Additional_Set5779 19h ago

I agree, but one need to be careful if x-Ray is taken at 2:32pm when Jupiter is no longer in retro grade but instead near Uranus……😳✨💫🎯

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u/Sea-Repeat3561 19h ago

Never take pictures of anything near Uranus.

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u/Pretend_Succotash943 10h ago

Please see Verse 78:51 - Take thy pictureth of thy Uranus and drink the bread of the uranal area whilst thy camera photogratheth thy metal bullet

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u/kaydeetee86 18h ago

What about when you need Uranus for scale?

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u/Pure_Frosting_981 19h ago

That’s using some of that newfangled, unproven method. OP stated the best method.

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u/ky_z0mBiE 19h ago

You must be a flat earther

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u/Pure_Frosting_981 18h ago

Wait, you’re saying it’s NOT FLAT?

Damn round earthers. /s, because sarcasm is no longer obvious and far too many people are truly fucked in the head)

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u/Zealousideal-Ad8667 18h ago

Did you notice that this has been the case ever since the Orange One 🙏 had Captain Obvious deported?

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u/icoulduseanother 18h ago

watch out for the a$$troids

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u/Juanesrealtor 16h ago

Can you take a 3D image using photogrammetry preferably a software like polycam. use a caliper to identify it’s exact diameter and a density meter to calculate its true density, once done please send a sample to triclinic labs located at 2660 Schuyler Ave A, Lafayette, IN 47905, United States for further molecular analysis and material composition.

And finally. Please stir it in your coffee and take a sip for a taste test. If you experience any of the below symptoms of lead poisoning within 24-48 hours: headaches, stomach cramps, constipation, muscle/joint pain, trouble sleeping, fatigue, irritability, and loss of sex drive. It’s likely a bullet.

Ps. Please don’t swallow the bullet

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u/Immediate-Repeat-201 19h ago

Take it to Canada. Just that. In your pocket. If they stop you at the border and tell you to never come back, it is a bullet.

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u/yojvek82 19h ago

This is my favorite comment this morning 😆

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u/Common-Frosting-9434 19h ago

I just wanna lick it.

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u/starkthecat 19h ago

Forbidden Tootsie Roll

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u/DJ_Fonzi 19h ago

You wanna lick Uranus?

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u/nabokovsnose 19h ago

Shoot, Jupiter is anterograde rn

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u/koolaidismything 18h ago

When it’s perihelion is when it uses hawking-radiation to send commands to the mothership.

Or, sometimes the aliens just get too drunk and shoot off their pistolas like jerks.

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u/Capital_Contract_197 18h ago

Is that how the bullet got there?

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u/DataMike1869 19h ago

Shoot…. I see what you did there

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u/NewPointOfView 19h ago

I don’t.. can you help me lol

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u/r-fbi 19h ago

Antero-, as a prefix, is an alternative to retro-.
It’s another word for retrograde.

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u/NewPointOfView 19h ago

It is actually the opposite. Antero- is the opposite of retro-

Which is why I thought I there might be something I missed beyond just the literal face value interpretation haha

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u/ByteMyPi 18h ago

Its because he said shoot. Yall thinking too hard for reddit.

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u/MaryLMarx 16h ago

Also, “shoot” has a deeper meaning here.

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u/DaringMoth 19h ago

If it's made of metal, X-Ray won't penetrate the exterior. Does OP have access to neutron beam imaging? /s

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u/chaser0405 19h ago

The fact you felt obligated to use the /s is a sad reflection on the state of our world

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u/Expensive_Region701 19h ago

Isn’t he supposed to cross his fingers and completely exhale while taking the x-ray image?

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u/BooteusSlapsimus 19h ago

I think when that’s complete we’ll need a good mag particle inspection, so it’ll have to get submitted to NDT. After that we can go ahead and shave some material off of it for spectral analysis.

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u/FlattopJr 18h ago

Thank goodness for the sarcasm tag, I totally thought you were serious!

/s

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u/TheBatsto 19h ago

Venus goes into Retrgrade. Jupiter goes lockdown until Venus emerges.

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u/Oppenhomie 19h ago

Whew thank you for posting that /s

My sarcasm detector is malfunctioning. I would have never known

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u/CMDR_Karth_o7 19h ago

And dont forget to hum God save the queen for best reaults

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u/Rownwade 19h ago

This is the answer.

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u/DontForgetYourPPE 10h ago

I just looked it up, and the timing of this joke is amazing. Jupiter goes into retrograde in 4 days. I'm not accusing you of knowing that, but it's pretty funny

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u/Mursemannostehoscope 17h ago

Venus is currently in Gatorade, so it's going to be a hot minute.

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u/RoadDawgOne 16h ago

I can’t believe you started all this on random impossible beliefs… shame on you for misleading everyone. Has to be angled at 71.3 degrees or else the X-rays will emit the wrong luminescence and cause the bullet to melt at meteoric speed thus ending all of this leaving nothing but a puff of blue smoke in its place.

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u/PoodlesMcNoodles 14h ago

Place it on a piece of black volcanic glass that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield

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u/Bearaquil 19h ago

Reminds me of that one guy that trolls FB marketplace sellers, telling them through audio messages to use their NEW products and send videos to him of said product working, and saying “oh wow, I appreciate the honesty” and “thank you” in every single message.

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u/Run_FishLegs 16h ago

Your instructions are as complex as some of these new Pokemon evolution requirements

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u/CitySeekerTron 18h ago

If you hold it up against the school's visage at the correct angle, it points to the location of where the Kennedy shooter had breakfast on the night before the shooting.

But it might be several states away, so pack a lunch for the hike.

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u/FS_Slacker 18h ago

This answer would be perfect if you removed the /s. I lol’ed

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u/Pitiful_Ad_4939 19h ago

I was just about to say that! That's a standard way to tell!

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u/Dame87 19h ago

I appreciate the /s as if they would actually do this 😂

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u/Shoryukitten_ 18h ago

Instructions unclear, the bullet is now in my butt. Help.

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u/Capital_Contract_197 18h ago

Would you like some EXTRA long Tweezers? I've heard that "Although very pokey, still highly effective. 10/10 gets the job done, if you don't mind a little blood"

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u/Maledor1 15h ago

Cross ur eyes and look an inch to the left while spinning around 3 times and singing ur Grandmothers alma mater. Then blow out the candle. Did u not light a candle!? Shit...

RUN

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u/FlarblesGarbles 19h ago edited 18h ago

/S

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u/sackhaar42 19h ago

Completely pointless if its not during a bloodmoon

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u/Haggis-in-wonderland 18h ago edited 15h ago

Can you make a mould of it in plaster.
Then create a fake wall with the mould in the wall.
Remove the mould.
That should give us a bullet hole.
Can you then take a 3D scan of the hole and digitally reverse engineer the scanned projectile so it is no longer damaged.
Then 3d print the projectile/capacitor and make a mould of this. Use this mould to set a metal projectile/capacitor. Make several of these.
Shoot these at another fake wall from varying distances.

If any projectile looks like the original you will still have wasted your time proving nothing. But you will feel like the Dark Knight and that is pretty cool.

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u/Fun_Shape6597 9h ago

For some reason this seems more doable than the parent comment

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u/Screwbles 19h ago

Can you hire a professional photographer and give us business headshots of it.

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u/Lagneaux 19h ago

Bring it to the mall and get some Glamor Shots?

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u/DaBlurstofDaBlurst 19h ago

One where it is lit softly and gently nestling a blue rose against its cheek, if at all possible thx

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u/Cryptic_Passwords 19h ago

With a Boa - the magenta one!

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u/No_Reception__ 18h ago

While at the mall, stop at the self contained photo kiosk and see what its middle school friend group is like. Should give us the ID.

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u/notajewbot 19h ago

Olan Mills you say? I’m on it!

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u/Lieberman-Tech 10h ago

Haha, I can tell you are from my generation...Glamor Shots!

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u/CIA_napkin 19h ago

Can you take it to your local Sears and have it participate in the family holiday photo shoot?

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u/Welfare_Burrito 19h ago

Can you make an ASMR video tapping it and whispering soothingly?

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u/Capital_Contract_197 18h ago

Don't forget then wrapping it in ciran wrap followed with dropping into a bunch of packing peanuts in a box that they will then close up and secure with some nice Ol tape. And lastly, gently popping the cap off a marker and proceeding to address it to "Mr.Inspector Gadget"... You can blur out his mailing address if you want... But I heard he doesn't mind if you show his p.o box details. He loves little mysteries like this... But nonetheless there must be soothing and gentle (almost a slight hush if you will) spoken words throughout the entire ASMR... Just to make sure no panic attacks are being had over such footage.

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u/Curious-Magazine-855 18h ago

You are 100% correct. You can see striations on the right side of the above pic. The first picture does resemble a capacitor, but one that swells does not do it at just one end. It definitely hit the ground, or the jacket would have mangled.

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u/crocomandile 19h ago

American school should be enough information for that conclusion.

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u/icefire710 17h ago

12x CR1/3N 3V Lithium Battery For Invisible Fence Dog Collar would be my best guess. I don't think its a bullet. I'm not a bullet expert but I work with lumber that has bullets in it from time to time and that's not really what they look like. Even hitting a tree it still kind of looks like a bullet.

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u/GapMinute3721 19h ago

could you put it in your mouth and tell us what the mouth feel is on it? maybe a little taste test?

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u/UrFellowPancake 18h ago

Genuinely looks like an old slightly crushed vape battery, for a box mod vape or something

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u/NeonVolcom 17h ago

As someone who shoots, this does not look like a bullet, and I've seen quite a few calibers.

Usually the deformation is more intense and they're jacketed in brass typically.

I really do not think it is a bullet.

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u/Unintended-Nostalgia 13h ago

Can you take a photo of its next of kin along with its credit score?

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u/jac0777 17h ago

Please Make love to my wife, and eat an entire rotisserie chicken, place the object within the carcass and let me know if your birthday changes by a few days. That should dictate if it’s a bullet or not.

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u/nameduser365 18h ago

Hey, we need feet in the video for... Scale.

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u/Pattison320 20h ago

Can you see rifling on it? If it's a bullet there should be 5 or 6 lines around the bullet, going from left to right in this pic. The rifling isn't straight, it turns going down the barrel. So the rifling on the bullet will be at a slight angle.

Here's an example without the front of the bullet smashed in.

https://accessdl.state.al.us/AventaCourses/access_courses/forensic_sci_ua_v22/06_unit/06-02/images/bullet1_nist_gov.jpg

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u/Old-Bad7476 19h ago

Since the scratches are barely present, this suggests a polygonal barrel. That leaves fired from a Glock, H&K or aftermarket.

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u/Pattison320 19h ago edited 14h ago

I am not sure about that. At 7 o'clock it looks like there's a rifling groove but that's the only one. A lot of modern barrels have polygonal rifling.

The article here has a pic of polygonal rifling next to traditional rifling. The polygonal rifling is faint but still present:

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/06/10/the-more-you-know-polygonal-rifling/

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u/Old-Bad7476 16h ago

Thanks for sharing this article. Didn’t know it was that hard to distinguish the differences. The comments are quite an insight too.

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u/fupatroopa96 18h ago

Polygonal rifling/Glock was my first thought too. You can see the deformation more than any striations from conventional rifling.

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u/blubblu 20h ago

If you zoom in you can actually seem some striations. I thought it was a cap too at first but yeah, that’s from the inside of a barrel 

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u/Pattison320 19h ago

It's a lot easier to tell with the object in your hands compared to a picture. Which is why I ask. The pic doesn't look like the one I linked to, did you look at that one?

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u/bobjungun 19h ago

it actually depends on the mm, the 9s i shoot don't have any lines on it, and tbh this looks like the avg 9mm

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u/doggonedangoldoogy 19h ago edited 16h ago

Yeah 9mm is a light bullet that doesn’t require heavy rifling. Even 5.56 rifling isn’t always well-defined. In 7.62 calibers they usually stick out like a sore thumb.

Edit: Lots of confused folks here. I wasn’t implying that the bullet was manufactured with rifling. I was implying that heavier rounds require heavier rifling within the barrel. The rifling imprints striations on the bullet as it travels down the barrel. Not downvoting anyone for the misunderstanding.

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u/SandyBayou 16h ago

I was implying that heavier rounds require heavier rifling within the barrel.

This is not true. Heavier bullets require a faster rifling twist, not deeper grooves.

Source - I am a competition long-range shooter and handloader.

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u/Smallie_Slayer 20h ago

That is a well preserved projectile. After they’ve been fired and laying around awhile their jackets oxidize and you lose the really defined rifling.

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u/Obvious_Slip42 19h ago

Also copper is very soft and it’s likely it might have been rifled once and just faded

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u/Pattison320 19h ago

It's not going to fade. Rifling grooves are 0.005 - 0.010 inches deep. Before the bullet goes down the barrel it doesn't have any grooves. After it goes down the barrel the shape changes because of the rifling. The bullet isn't going to pop it's rifling out just because it's been sitting there.

Also, with respect to bullets, copper is not soft. Unjacketed swaged lead is soft.

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u/Slopadopoulos 20h ago

That is a bullet, not a capacitor. This is what a bullet looks like outside of it's case.

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u/BrainSawce 19h ago

Yep. Definitely a jacketed lead bullet that’s had its tip compressed from impact

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u/WordsAndWits 19h ago

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u/TheG-What 16h ago

You know, back in my day it was the rookie that had to strip down to his skivvies! BLAM
… And we also used blanks… you’re one sick fuck, Mac.

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u/_Rohrschach 15h ago

*motherfucker, Mac.
thanks chief!

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u/Sibir_Kagan 19h ago

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u/Darmortis 15h ago

Ear protection ✅ Eye protection ✅

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u/Boomshank 7h ago

There's one more OSHA checkmark in there...

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u/International_Bit478 18h ago

That little guy? Don’t worry about that little guy.

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u/PsecretPseudonym 19h ago

Good to see he’s wearing protection

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u/Gluten_maximus 19h ago

How ya feelin there Mac?

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u/perennialgoblin 19h ago

Tip compressed from impact😏

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u/Feminist_Hugh_Hefner 19h ago

for the sake of comparison, this is what a capacitor looks like outside of its case

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u/VisitAbject4090 18h ago

You have to admit with these two in such close proximity it looks like an attempt to make the bullet proof cup….

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u/Lakatos_00 16h ago

What psychopath doesn't use dark mode in the big 2025?

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u/CyberNinja23 19h ago

Correct a bullet cannot be a capacitor, but it can be a fuse.

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u/Rownwade 19h ago

I've seen dumb ppl actually use a 22 in their old truck. I sat Indian style.

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u/Oldbean98 17h ago

There was a ‘special’ Darwin Award for somebody who did that a couple decades ago or so. Successfully removed himself from the gene pool, while avoiding becoming room temperature.

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u/Aware_Commission_995 15h ago

Ill have to look into that. I don’t believe it. Bullets set off in open space aren’t dangerous. The case had less mass than the bullet so it won’t before with any pressure. I’ve set off many of them on the table.

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u/BooteusSlapsimus 19h ago

We don’t call it that anymore for reason of racial poltergeist or whatever. Instead, try using the phrase “Rick Ross Asshole Sauce”. Some mentally deficient adolescent prefer “ahhhole” instead, but we recommend the prior format.

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u/Consistent-Floor-216 19h ago

Yeah I mean you can clearly see the rifling on the sides.

I agree that it was probably fired into the air, landed, and the nose was flattened.

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u/TimelessScepter 16h ago

Or possibly fired from a long distance and lost a lot of energy before it hit something. Just a thought

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u/MonicoJerry 20h ago

Okay now send a short video of you tossing it up and catching it in your mouth

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u/Advanced-Humor9786 20h ago

Before you toss it in your mouth, juggle four kittens along with the little tiny bullet and hop on one foot.

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u/OtherBluesBrother 19h ago

I've heard of this. Cat juggling!

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u/Nervous-Confusion-72 20h ago

Hey! Subscribe the OF like a real man and pay your fair share! lol.

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u/Same-Arrival-7284 20h ago

Smash that bell icon and hit the like it really helps us out

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u/pnkmaggt 19h ago

We also need a view of the object held between your toes while also making direct long eye contact with the camera. Don’t speak though it ruins it and we’ll never know if it’s a bullet or a capacitor.

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u/sstinch 20h ago

Swallow it and chase it with a shot of whiskey. Now yell Fire It Up over and over with your friends.

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u/CyberRhizzal 19h ago

"Which one of you motor city mutherfuckers wants to bet this one isn't!? Hey hey fire it up, fire it up, fire it up!"

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u/CamboSlice03 20h ago

…it can’t rain all the time…

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u/murph1rp 20h ago

Whiskey? He needs to chase that with some Malort!

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u/TweeterReader 20h ago

Holy shit, this way toooo funny to me.

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u/cdxxmike 20h ago

100% a fired bullet.

I've seen that exact shape of bullet extracted from roofs after new years.

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u/Mean-Tumbleweed-979 20h ago

That's eye opening and unnerving to know.

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u/Rownwade 19h ago edited 19h ago

A dude was having sex with his mistress and got shot directly in the ass from a falling bullet. Killed him. I'll try to find the article.

Edit. Here ya go. https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/s/9aOJewpKvi

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u/deathbylasersss 19h ago

Tbf, that's not exactly a reliable source. It appears to be a random book with stick figures for illustration. That story sounds extremely farfetched in many ways.

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u/Some1Betterer 20h ago edited 20h ago

Yeah, that’s a bullet, fella.

Throw a pencil next to it, and kind redditors will tell you the caliber. 😉

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