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MisterKrababbel — The Skull
Published: 2011-10-18 15:50:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 634; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 19
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One of the saddening exhibits at the Military History Museum.The skull of a soldier in World War II who committed suicide by filling his mouth with water and shooting himself into it with a 7.9 mm shell. This caused the water to explode and destroyed his skull.
Such is war - such is death - and such is life.
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All I can really say about this is what, and I mean, what in the world, man O_o the entire upper part of skull`s face is missing ... can water be really so strong when it is applied that way?
I wouldn`t like to see the face of this poor soldier
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I couldn't agree more. It was one of the most touching exhibits at that museum.
And as for the physics, water is not compressible. The shot causes a very high pressure and the skull can do nothing but burst.
Horrible idea. But that's what some people do who want to play safe.
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Probably one of the creepiest as well. We have nothing like this in our WW museums O_o only ripped uniforms, grenade shrapnels and pictures of bodies all over the ground. What terrible times ˇ-ˇ
I see. At least we can hope their souls are now at rest.
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For understandable reasons, we don't have many military museums here in Germany. That one in my home town belongs to the few exceptions.
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Then this museum is really lucky, since ... yeah, I understand.
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Sad indeed. And I was surprised about the presentation.
I found that skull and some more very realistic and scary exhibits in a black room and in black showcases. In order to see them you have to pull down a kind of sliding flap. And you need both hands and much power for doing that.
They want to prevent little kids from seeing those things, I guess.
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Wild. I think it was intentional to have the viewer have physical interaction with the actual viewing of them. I went to this extraordinary DaDa exhibit in downtown L.A. back in 1997 during college. It was a 5 story(or more I think) old business building. Each floor and room was converted into gallery spaces for hundreds of artists. One artists work was in a locker room with many tall vertical storage spaces. The room was called "A Hundred Different Ways to Die" I had to open each locker door and inside each was a humorously cartoon-ish illustration of a horrible way to die that utilized the whole space. That person painted the insides and also made 3D object to do it. Car going off a cliff, eaten by wild animals, burned in some fire... so on. I loved it! Dark humor... nothing like what you've seen of course.
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Sounds funny indeed. I like black humor quite much.
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