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Turn on a light above the target's head. Shoot on target. Demote general for wasting everyone time.
by grogenaut 13y ago
Turn on a light above the target's head. Shoot on target. Demote general for wasting everyone time.
- oh_sigh 13y agoThen the person who is the closest to the light will know that he is the one who killed the individual.
- jordan0day 13y agoArrange the soldiers in an arc (< 180 degrees, hopefully) around the target, rather than a line. Now each soldier is exactly the same distance from the target, and will see the light turn on at exactly the same time.
- CamperBob2 13y agoNo, the way firing squads work is that a randomly-chosen member fires a blank. No one can know for certain if they delivered a lethal round.
- biot 13y agoWhile you may not know if your rifle has a blank, you'll definitely know if your rifle fired a blank due to the different force in recoil because you're accelerating the mass of gunpowder+lead vs gunpowder alone.
- CamperBob2 13y agoNot sure how true that is. How much recoil force is contributed by the bullet versus the gas that propels it?
- e12e 13y ago> Then the person who is the closest to the light will know that he is the one who killed the individual. Apart from the possibility of arranging those firing in an arch (and providing a random selection with blanks[1) -- how on earth would a "soldier" know that? Anyone close enough to see the light above the curvature of the earth/within rifle range would effectively see the light at the same time (just based on the latency of the nervous system)... [1] It seems to me that it would be much easier to tell if you'd fired a blank -- as the recoil would feel different?
- grogenaut 13y agoAlso you're assuming perfect response times which is BS.