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"One casing was found with the complete works of William Shakespeare engraved on it"
"Breaking News! Bullet with Quran engraved on it, found at crime scene"
“Bullet casing found with the entire script of The Bee Movie hand written in calligraphy on it.”
Now I wonder if it would be possible to engrave the complete works of William Shakespeare on an Iowa-class battleship's 16 inch shell. Big bullet but that's a lot of text.
You could write that in the head of a pin with room to spare.
To be fair, writing at that scale (couple of atoms' height if I remember correctly) would probably not stand up to the simple friction or wear & tear of the physical loading and firing mechanisms. Meaning if you engraved the complete works of Shakespeare on a casing, no-one could probably tell once you fired the shot.
Large bore naval rifles are not generally cased. Iowas for instance do not use cases, you write stuff directly on the shell like a bomb. They just use a shell and bags of powder.
Bullet was forklifted to the press conference for media to view
I wonder how much of the bee movie script you could fit on a casing if you used shorthand and a good laser engraver