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OT: NYE PSA

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  • blind99
    blind99 Posts: 4,974
    JohnInCarolina said:
    SemolinaPilchard said:
    Mythbusters did a segment that "proved" that bullets fired in the air can not kill you. The problem is, they dropped the bullet from a balloon, and showed that a bullet coming down at terminally velocity is going too slow to harm you. If someone fires a bullet straight up, they're correct. But we all know that is seldom the case. I wonder how many people saw that and now figure it is safe to fire into the air?
    I'm guessing the intersection between the set of people who watch "Mythbusters" and those who would think to shoot a gun off into the air in the first place is pretty friggin close to zero.  In fact, it might just be you.

    Happy New Year!
    The intersection of people who think in Venn diagrams and eggheads = JIC 

    happy new year!
    Chicago, IL - Large and Small BGE - Weber Gasser and Kettle
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  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
    blind99 said:
    JohnInCarolina said:
    SemolinaPilchard said:
    Mythbusters did a segment that "proved" that bullets fired in the air can not kill you. The problem is, they dropped the bullet from a balloon, and showed that a bullet coming down at terminally velocity is going too slow to harm you. If someone fires a bullet straight up, they're correct. But we all know that is seldom the case. I wonder how many people saw that and now figure it is safe to fire into the air?
    I'm guessing the intersection between the set of people who watch "Mythbusters" and those who would think to shoot a gun off into the air in the first place is pretty friggin close to zero.  In fact, it might just be you.

    Happy New Year!
    The intersection of people who think in Venn diagrams and eggheads = JIC 

    happy new year!
    You meant Rorschach pictures right? =)
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
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  • JustineCaseyFeldown
    JustineCaseyFeldown Posts: 867
    edited January 2017
    nolaegghead said:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire

    30 cal terminal velocity of a bullet fired straight up is 300 feet per second.  About what a cheap pellet gun fires, except the kinetic energy is much higher because of the higher mass.  Shot between 0 and 45 degrees, it can be much higher.

    Don't be an **** and fire into the air.
    Shot between 0 and 45 it doesn't ever reqch 'terminal velocity". It remains in a ballistic trajectory, travelling at the speed it left the barrel minus the wind resistance

    Which basically means, someone shot you from a distance. As opposed to "a bullet fell on you"

    anyone confused should google "ballistic trajectory"

    This is why a football is thrown with a spiral, and barrels are rifled




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  • The Cen-Tex Smoker
    The Cen-Tex Smoker Posts: 23,179
    JustineCaseyFeldown said:
    Sorry i am so late on sending out my secret santa present. @littlesteven, i hope someone will be home to sign for it. 


    Im on my phone and it looked like "you" made that out of some type of ground beef. Once
    i zoomed in (don't judge) I realized it was simply off the shelf kitsch. Sad!  
    Keepin' It Weird in The ATX FBTX
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,376
    >BUMP!<  
     
    Nothing like a real-world datum:
     
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/us/texas-representative-bullet-hits-head/index.html

    "Dumplings are just noodles that have already eaten"   - Jon Kung

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,739
    Botch said:
    >BUMP!<  
     
    Nothing like a real-world datum:
     
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/us/texas-representative-bullet-hits-head/index.html
    Yep, saw that yesterday.  I guess somebody watched Mythbusters and just didn't pay close attention.  

    Or they're an idiot.  One of those. 
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • JethroVA
    JethroVA Posts: 1,251
    Couple years ago a kid got killed here in Richmond by a July 4th gun shot into the air. 
    Richmond and Mathews County, VA. Large BGE, Weber gas, little Weber charcoal. Vintage ManGrates. Little reddish portable kamado that shall remain nameless here.  Very Extremely Stable Genius. 
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  • Focker
    Focker Posts: 8,364
    Botch said:
    >BUMP!<  
     
    Nothing like a real-world datum:
     
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/02/us/texas-representative-bullet-hits-head/index.html
    He's lucky it wasn't a 308.
    Brandon
    Quad Cities
    "If yer gonna denigrate, familiarity with the subject is helpful."

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