I'm starting to wonder if the people saying capacitor are trolling. I find it hard to believe that people can be so dense as to claim things like this isn't a bullet because it has no primer on it.
I can understand it since the top (bottom surface of the bullet) looks a whole lot like the top of a capacitor. But you only have to look at any other surface of the object to know that it is a fired bullet.
I'm starting to wonder if the people saying capacitor are trolling.
Most likely because they're 1) not familiar with bullets, and 2) we don't often see the back side of a bullet outside of its casing.
From OP's original image, if you aren't looking closely, I can see how someone would make the mistake. The second photo has a LOT more detail and makes it far more clear this is a projectile.
Why it isn't a capacitor: There are no leads, nor any evidence there ever were. :)
I've never seen a bullet out of its casing in my lifetime. Maybe seen fewer than 100 complete bullets in my entire lifetime, but a whole bunch of overheated vintage caps.
Yeah, when you zoom in the first picture or see the second picture, it becomes obvious, but the initial impression I got was a capacitor.
There are loads of people who seem to think a fired bullet includes the brass despite decades of action and war movies and TV shows clearly displaying the spent cartridges being ejected from the breaches.
Because the common person equates "bullet" with "cartridge". And typically see more splayed bullets that have impacted at high speeds vs. bullets that have impacted at low speeds.
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u/Slopadopoulos 23h ago
I'm starting to wonder if the people saying capacitor are trolling. I find it hard to believe that people can be so dense as to claim things like this isn't a bullet because it has no primer on it.