I can see allot of there test was wrongly tested...So far the grab hook.. Bruce invented his own.That has the same power of the gun they used..But smaller.
The test for the ring impression was not complete, it did not take into account the underlying blood vessels, it may not be a brand but a mark would remain. I know this from experience as a child when while playing I was kicked by someone else in the face and I was left with a clear imprint of the sole of the shoe on my face.
I think they should try testing with a actual normal ring instead of the ring they used which consisted of a flat surface which spreads out the energy on impact.
Bruising is only visible on living tissue. (I would have thought that someone on the mythbusters team would have read Stiff) A dead pig will not tell you anything. (Not to mention that the first punch looked as if the ring was above the point of impact.)
Unfortunately Grant, Tory, and Kerry didn't take into account soft tissue under the skin of a person's face in the human analog. Plus the ring they used was in essence a printing plate, and not something that would leave an imprint.
If they ever revisit this myth, I'd suggest a couple human skulls (fake skulls if need be) suspended in a few of the different ballistics materials the Mythbusters have available.
...oh..and I want to see the result of Grant-man's nitrogen cannon on one of those skulls.. XD
I have been in law enforcement for 21 years now. I have seen jewelry make an impression on someones face after a real fight. The rings I have seen do this are not reverse impressions like the one demonsrated in the show however.
I'm not new to Mythbusters, but am new to here. I'm curious about the superhero ring test. I'm no expert, but there is a thin layer of flesh and liquid(blood) between the human skull and skin. In their test they stretched skin tight across a skull... this could not leave an impression. It's like a drum... if it is tight it will not indent, but if loose it will indent and stay that way.
Human skin is not stretched across the skull, but more like a sack of fluid.
ok, i have mad quite a fiew lost wax cast rings in my time (the way they made the ring used in the test) and in my opinion a posible way of geting the desired result would be changeing the actual process of creating the ring it's self not the punch if you were to insted of useing a dremal tool as shown on the wax and accually carved and sharpend the wax with a heated instrimint then filled and sanded down the edges to a sharp design you could easily break the skin with not verry much force... i have cut my self on rings many times whale smothing them but if you wanted the result of leaveing an imprent make the edges sharp and the relife deep then when preshure was a plied it would cut into the skin
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It isnt bruising that causes the skull to appear on the skin from the ring, its a dye he coats it in to make a permanent mark on the bad guys. He has one that he uses on people he's protecting as well, and I'm fairly certain he wouldn't bruise someone he's trying to help. I never saw the movie, so they may have done it differently there, but in the comic its a dye made from compounds in the jungle.
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