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re: Democrat Atlanta mayor believes bullets fired in the air fall as fast as they first ascend
Posted on 5/1/23 at 2:24 pm to IceTiger
Posted on 5/1/23 at 2:24 pm to IceTiger
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I'm quoting Dr Chen, who speaks 7 languages at the same fricking time so I might have jumbled it a bit.
You either jumbled it alot, or he is an idiot, hah.
Touching with a feather at the top won't do anything significant. It starts it's descent at 0 velocity regardless.
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Posted on 5/1/23 at 2:38 pm to VolcanicTiger
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That's over 200 MPH still. Probably not enough to cause expansion but enough to kill someone at the right angle
Highly unlikely to kill someone. Takes about 250fps just to break the skin.
Posted on 5/1/23 at 3:14 pm to CleverUserName
quote:No, people get hit by falling bullets all the time when the intent is to fire into the air for celebration, not firing specifically at anyone. Anything that preserves the ballistic trajectory, which includes some very high angles, can be dangerous.
Low angle fire that was actually intended for a target and they missed.
Mythbusters even did a whole thing on it. You can likely find it or something like it on youtube.
Posted on 5/1/23 at 3:27 pm to highcotton2
quote:Maybe, I've never seen data on that, but it may depend on the round. FMJ 10mm vs .223 probably makes a huge difference.
Highly unlikely to kill someone. Takes about 250fps just to break the skin.
This post was edited on 5/2/23 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 5/1/23 at 4:17 pm to Leto II
See that equal sign? Have you a clue of its meaning? It’s an equation not a sentence. But I could be worse, I could be you!
Posted on 5/1/23 at 4:34 pm to Landmass
Favorite story about bullets coming down is from some guy who used to work maintenance at the Superdome. Said they'd find slugs on the floor all the time right around where they'd find new roof leaks. Said lot of idiots from the former Melpomene and Calliope Housing Projects would go nuts during holidays and cause a lot of leaks. Also used to shoot at the roof of the dome as they'd drive along the Pontchartrain Expressway. Said that is why they used different colored green panels on the side of the Smoothie King Center when that was built. Said that if they got shot enough times they'd replace them and didn't want the color to be noticeably different from the one right beside it.
Posted on 5/1/23 at 6:12 pm to CleverUserName
A simple google search..
quote:
An individual's chance of being hit by a falling bullet is small, but if hit, the likelihood of being killed is up to five times greater, at 32 per cent, than it is from a direct gunshot. This is because injury typically occurs to the head and shoulders rather than to less critical body parts.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:21 pm to IceTiger
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ETA: I'm quoting Dr Chen, who speaks 7 languages at the same fricking time so I might have jumbled it a bit.
What he was probably saying was that if you drop a feather and bullet from very high up in a vacuum they would hit the ground at the same time.
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:24 pm to CleverUserName
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A falling bullet from the sky is not lethal. At all.
You folks don’t know this?
We know you're a fricking idiot.
Here's another.
This post was edited on 5/2/23 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:31 pm to CleverUserName
Here's an article on the physics.
And yeah, there have been several people killed by falling bullets.
LINK
And yeah, there have been several people killed by falling bullets.
LINK
Posted on 5/2/23 at 1:44 pm to Nosevens
Go read your sentence aloud to yourself
Posted on 5/2/23 at 2:06 pm to BamaGradinTn
Can no doubt kill you but would be extremely rare.
“A 150 mile-per-hour bullet won’t be lethal in most instances, but there are two factors that can change the equation dramatically.
Bullets that are fired at an angle, rather than straight up, may never stop and begin tumbling; instead, they can maintain much greater speeds: many hundreds of miles-per-hour.
If a bullet has enough speed to break the skin, it can potentially be lethal; this occurs at different speeds for different bullets and different individual people.”
“A 150 mile-per-hour bullet won’t be lethal in most instances, but there are two factors that can change the equation dramatically.
Bullets that are fired at an angle, rather than straight up, may never stop and begin tumbling; instead, they can maintain much greater speeds: many hundreds of miles-per-hour.
If a bullet has enough speed to break the skin, it can potentially be lethal; this occurs at different speeds for different bullets and different individual people.”
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