# Ice bullets

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539 "2016-10-02T23:15:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539/21 "2016-10-03T12:12:10Z")

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> [@Isamu](#):
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> I don’t get it. So no one sees the big wound in his head? Or they see a big wound but no bullet so therefore it can’t be murder?

You’d have to read the book. It’s about getting away with murder in a world that has powerful telepaths.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539/22 "2016-10-03T13:27:43Z")

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> Quoth **usedtobe** :
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> I know I’m going to regret asking, but:
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> What blood?
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> A gelatin capsule (which will dissolve due to body heat and moisture) travels 2" from back of mouth to medulla, causing instant death.

…and leaving a 2" hole through the intervening tissue, all of which is vasculated. Seriously, when you put holes in people, they bleed. I thought this was common knowledge.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539/23 "2016-10-03T14:03:03Z")

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> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> You’d have to read the book. It’s about getting away with murder in a world that has powerful telepaths.

But Columbo figures it out anyway.

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539/24 "2016-10-03T14:53:44Z")

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> [@Peter\_Morris](#):
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> But Columbo figures it out anyway.

Tenser, said the Tensor…

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-bullets/767539/25 "2016-10-03T14:58:13Z")

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Could bullets that have to be hyper-cooled cause the gun to mis-fire?

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