*livemusic too? I saw O in Las Vegas. Cool show, but I liked BMG more.

BMG FTW.

Sony BMG is evil too. They used to install rootkits ont heir software that f%^ked up you computer.

Fake this, trash that, ballistic calculations blah blah blah...you people are LAZY. This isn't Youtube, folks, do the math if you're gonna complain so much.

First of all, a quick Googling reveals this gem:
"6-27-07: BOOM HEADSHOT! This is amazing. Willie, the father of Tina, who made the sandbag rests fires a .50BMG, an Armalite AR-50 and it ricochets off of a steel plate that it should have easily penetrated. The bullet comes straight back and hits him in the head. You can see it hit the dirt about 15 feet in front on him before it clobbers him. Luckily he was uninjured. He's a bit sore today, but otherwise fine. Lucky lucky bastard. He has been advised to buy lottery tickets while he still has so much luck. I don't know about the timing, but you can hear the hit on the steel plate. Time that till the impact on Willie's head... how fast is that 750 grain slug traveling? The range is 100 yards. Amazing."

The time from the sound of the shot to the sound of the impact of the bullet on the target is used to calculate for the initial velocity (sound delay over distance accounted for). The speed of the projectile (I'm not ruling out the possibility of a piece of the target being the ricochet, not the bullet) on ricochet to the ground is taken from the time from the sound of the impact of the bullet on the target to the sound of the impact on the ground. The speed of the projectile on ricochet to the earmuff is taken from the time from the impact on the ground to the impact on the earmuff. (This last impact makes a rather significant change in energy loss.)

For the sake of better accuracy, I assumed that the range was NOT 100 yards and calculated distance instead assuming that the gun was an Armalite AR-50 (.50 BMG), 750 grain slug, and that certain ballistic statistics on the gun were reasonably accurate, and that the ricochet did not return straight back, then compared the expected and actual times between the round being fired, the impact on target, impact on dirt, and then impact on person.

Keep in mind that I am no expert on large-caliber rifles and these calculations are the result of about 5 minutes of thinking, but unless you're willing to properly time the sounds on a video editor, incorporate angling for the energy transfer calculations and cross-reference ballistics info on the AR-50, I'm the best you're gonna get, so piss off.

Bullet weight: 750 gr
Average muzzle velocity: 2620 ft/s
Average energy: 11420 ft*lbf

Distance to target: 362 ft
Muzzle velocity of shot: 2603 ft/s
Velocity of the projectile on impact to the ground: 271 ft/s
Velocity of the projectile on impact to the earmuff: 210 ft/s

Conclusion: Very possible, especially assuming the target was steel, as I quoted above, but contrary to what the guy in the video said.

For reference sake, this is less than the speed an average paintball will hit you at (I think 250-300 ft/s). In all likelihood, though, the projectile had enough speed and energy and pointy bits to seriously mess this guy up if he'd been hit straight on. Maybe there'd be enough pressure to penetrate, maybe not, but I'd bet he'd have a broken bone or two at the very least.

On a final note, ricochets do happen with metal targets, and not completely rarely either, thus the rules of gun safety. This guy should NOT have been shooting at a steel/iron target with a .50 caliber rifle at such a close distance (I've heard that .50 cals can hit targets a mile and a half out), although it seems like he was smart enough to be wearing eye protection. He made the assumption that the round would penetrate the target, and we've all heard what happens when you assume. Hell, I can't even think of a reason to OWN a .50 caliber, past a psychoanalysis to make Freud weep or dreams of zombie pandemics.

Anyways, lucky guy, one-in-a-million-chance, remember gun safety, and you're welcome.

BMG rules.

Tags changed from "the bmg, animation,dreams,peach" to "the bfg, animation, dreams, peach" by gold star member michie.

Don't forget BMG version: http://www.videosift.com/video/Blue-Man-Group-Baba-ORiley-from-Americas-Got-Talent-Season-1-Finale

I'm seeing BMG at my college on March (norfolk, VA)! I can't wait I've always wanted to see them in Vegas but never got the chance to.

I like their products, but it seems like the company is run by lunatics...
The root-kit software on Sony BMG CDs, the poor, poor launch of the PlayStation 3, and now this.

I like Moby and love BMG, but this song gets a little redundant.

Still, I like to see anything with BMG.

Who else is going to MegaStar 2.0? I am going to the Anaheim Pond on Nov. 5th! Also, I saw the Luxor one in Vegas back in 2001. Two photos http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/PFC-BMG.html ...

How to be a Megastar 2.0 kicks off pretty soon (their new tour)!

*big BMG fan*

This is my favorite BMG video here... http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=12371&where=queue

Let's assume that downloading music, or watching videos outside of their ad revenue supported channels, is in fact theft. Though it really is copyright infringement, which isn't piracy, or theft.. Or actually a crime. I mean heck, the majority of Disney crap is literally stolen from others. Stolen stories, wording, imagery.

Ok, so assuming somehow pressing record on a VCR during your favorite MTV music video is illegal...

The fact is - they are like the mob. They think you are getting your garbage taken away by another company. They don't actually own a garbage company, or actually do any garbage removal.. but they do get kick backs and control the rights who can pick up garbage and charge for this service. So BMG, RIAA, etc. are just pissed that if they are cut out of the loop, they aren't going to be able to skim off the top of artists' work.

I'm surprise a band hasn't figured out, they could record an album, make a video and sell it or give it away for exclusive YouTube distribution. Then they will get album sales from the free play on the internet. Heck people may only download mp3s and you wouldn't even need a distribution network. The artist could also make the appeal to people to pay the $1 and don't copy the songs, because in this case you would be stealing from artist, or at least not supporting them. If the music was good people would support the band.

And then the band could sue the radio stations and MTV for copyright infringement.. wouldn't that be something.