RE: [OT] I need a reality check

--- Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> wrote:
> Jared Hilal wrote:
> 
> >Israeli doctors claim to be able to tell how large a blast was and
> >how close to it a given patient was by looking at damage to lungs
> >and other organs caused by the pressure.
> 
> Both the size *and* the distance?

Different sources, so I don't know if it's one or the other, or both
simultaineously.

> Hm. That's impressive - lung damage
> depends fairly predictably on the strength (ie., energy density) of
> the shock wave, but that in turn diminishes with the distance

similar to spherical wave propogation, right?

> so I would've guessed one *or* the other... but then again, they've 
> got a lot of experience with blast damage :-(
> 

J