A while back I wrote a brief post entitled Why Splinters? In it I examined why injuries from wood splinters figure prominently in literature and history of combat during the Age of Sail and pointed out that there are some doubters.
Anytime you challenge the Myth Busters you do so with trepidation but in this specific instance I felt the frequency splinters were mentioned in contemporaneous literature was dispositive and that the experiment set up by the Myth Busters was flawed on various levels.
Now, thanks to poster Karel I’m adding this video to the collection. I think we can now close the book on this discussion.
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wow! That closes the case for certain.