Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "This Is A MESS! The Most Powerful Weapon Of Every Century" video.

  1. I do believe that some viking axes were shaped to be somewhere in betweenna woodcutting axe and a war axe though. Of course it always depended on the maker and customer, but from examples I've see, war axes from the middle ages and some from ancient times look much thinner than examples of viking axes. I think it also make sense due to the fact that space aboard a viking longboat was limited, and vikings needed tree logs to move their longboats over land, so having their axes double as weapons and felling axes would make a lot of sense, as opposed of bringing different axes for different tasks.
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  2. Fun fact about early nukes: out of the total mass of the fissile material in the nuke, only a few grams of it actually reached critical mass and cause the nuclear explosion. It really is quite fascinating how much energy is contained in just a few grains of sand of weapons grade plutonium. For a comparison, it's like throwing a single grain of sand and have it explode like a hand grenade.
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  3. I wonder if an arrow hitting a breastplate and then glancing off could still retain enough force to slide in through the mail in the armoured targets armpit or shoulder.
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