Firing a Gun into the Air
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- benfal99
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Where does the bullets go? Can they hurt people when coming down?
- BonSeff0
goggle it
- ********0
they go up, and then they come down. yes they can hurt people.
what.
- jfletcher0
yes, they could technically kill someone I believe... it's a small piece of metal flying at a terminal velocity. Not sure.
- ********0
Seems like they do this alot in Middle East
Can't be that dangerous
- armsbottomer0
yes, its also possible to calculate approximately where it will land. (parabolic trajectory)
- benfal990
In Middle East everyone is firing their AK-47 like crazy to celebrate... They must have hurt some people one day or another.
- MikeColdFusion0
on new years eve the thing to do in my neighborhood (and a lot of places from what I hear) is to shoot in to the air. I was sitting on my back porch and I could hear the bullets whiz back down. They whistle. Last year my friend had one go through his window and end up on his bed.
- ********0
Humans don't give a shit
- monospaced0
Third world problem.
- not really. ever been to the hood on new years or the sticks on the 4th of july?shellie
- haha, it was just a joke shellie... nice weather out, huh?monospaced
- its so nice, its almost hot out. what you doin this weekend? Hollrrrrrrrrshellie
- mrghost0
mythbusters episode on this question
- ********0
- hahabenfal99
- who did thisusrper
- who did what? that is real.refunktion
- moldero0
new years eve in the US, a lot of people outside
new years eve in Mexico, only American tourists are outsidethis shit you hear down here on new years eve is insane, not only do you hear uzi's, M16's and unmistakable sound of the AK47, but you hear shit like this M60 going off:
pretty insane, a lot of stories of people getting hit down here just from firing in the sky
- ********0
the bullet can fall gracefully down back to the earth and poke you in the eye, causing severe squinting.
- formed0
CSI dedicated an entire episode to this...I think it was CSI, one of those solve'em shows
- yepdoesnotexist
- law and order i think. great episode.Chief
- Fax_Benson0
Once the bullet stops it's upward trajectory, and assuming it flew straight up, it's just the same as if you were letting it go from your fingers - it has no form of propulsion other than gravity. Therefore it all depends on how heavy the bullet is and how high up it got.
So, to answer whether it hurts or not - fuck knows.
- < correct answer.reinitialize
- 1 mile of pure acceleration downward? Yeah, that'd hurt just a tad.formed
- the bullet would hurt just as bad as if it was dropped from a 5 story building or 100 story.reinitialize
- it's like hailstones - the bigger, the heavier, the faster, the hurtier.Fax_Benson
- WRONG all objects fall at the same speed regardless of weight. terminal velocity is dependent on their shape.Nightshade
- nightshade is on the ball.jaylarson
- M_C_P0
this sounds like a job for mythbusters
