Conquer Club

betiko wrote:On a more serious note, check mythbusters. There is one episode dedicated to it.

crispybits wrote:

betiko wrote:On a more serious note, check mythbusters. There is one episode dedicated to it.

http://mythbustersresults.com/episode50

Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.

Metsfanmax wrote:Wiki:

Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.

chang50 wrote:

Metsfanmax wrote:Wiki:

Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.

'It happens',no big deal.

betiko wrote:

chang50 wrote:

Metsfanmax wrote:Wiki:

Between the years 1985 and 1992, doctors at the King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, treated some 118 people for random falling-bullet injuries. Thirty-eight of them died.

'It happens',no big deal.

How many due to the 4th of july and hillbillies firing their guns to celebrate? 5 de mayo works too!

crispybits wrote:depends - if you're really good at aiming straight it falls back into the barrel of the gun eventually (assuming you hold the gun still and there's no wind)

otherwise it comes down somewhere - bullets don't have escape velocity

Anarkistsdream wrote:

crispybits wrote:depends - if you're really good at aiming straight it falls back into the barrel of the gun eventually (assuming you hold the gun still and there's no wind)

otherwise it comes down somewhere - bullets don't have escape velocity

I will assume this was meant to be a joke, as it is obviously erroneous... Considering the earth turns while the bullet is in the air, it would NOT fall "straight back into the barrel." That is just laughable...

Good to know that just because you are good at Risk doesn't mean you are smart...

notyou2 wrote:

Anarkistsdream wrote:

crispybits wrote:depends - if you're really good at aiming straight it falls back into the barrel of the gun eventually (assuming you hold the gun still and there's no wind)

otherwise it comes down somewhere - bullets don't have escape velocity

I will assume this was meant to be a joke, as it is obviously erroneous... Considering the earth turns while the bullet is in the air, it would NOT fall "straight back into the barrel." That is just laughable...

Good to know that just because you are good at Risk doesn't mean you are smart...

But wait..............doesn't the bullet turn with the earth too???????

Anarkistsdream wrote:

notyou2 wrote:

Anarkistsdream wrote:

crispybits wrote:depends - if you're really good at aiming straight it falls back into the barrel of the gun eventually (assuming you hold the gun still and there's no wind)

otherwise it comes down somewhere - bullets don't have escape velocity

I will assume this was meant to be a joke, as it is obviously erroneous... Considering the earth turns while the bullet is in the air, it would NOT fall "straight back into the barrel." That is just laughable...

Good to know that just because you are good at Risk doesn't mean you are smart...

But wait..............doesn't the bullet turn with the earth too???????

Not at the same speed...

If you are driving down the highway and throw a ball up in the air, the car continues to move faster than the ball going up...

Spin a globe and throw a penny at it... The penny hits the globe at a different place then where the globe was when the penny left your fingers...

This is also a reason planes do not fly straight from point A to point B, but instead have a curvature that allows the earth to rotate underneath it...

Basic physics...

Anarkistsdream wrote:I did realize the horrible penny/globe analogy... But I refuse to edit posts...

As I said, it is only changed by millimeters, but it is, in fact, changed. We talked about this in physics class years ago... Of course, I can't say my physics professor was awesome and always right, but we did several small tests which proved his hypothesis correct...

One of the tests was dropping a penny off the Empire State Building on a nearly windless" day, with the slight breeze moving west to east. The penny still fell far to the west of the building due to the Earth's rotation... (This was not a test WE did. I am from Oklahoma. But we watched the video of it from some professor at NYU or somewhere up there.)

betiko wrote:

Anarkistsdream wrote:I did realize the horrible penny/globe analogy... But I refuse to edit posts...

As I said, it is only changed by millimeters, but it is, in fact, changed. We talked about this in physics class years ago... Of course, I can't say my physics professor was awesome and always right, but we did several small tests which proved his hypothesis correct...

One of the tests was dropping a penny off the Empire State Building on a nearly windless" day, with the slight breeze moving west to east. The penny still fell far to the west of the building due to the Earth's rotation... (This was not a test WE did. I am from Oklahoma. But we watched the video of it from some professor at NYU or somewhere up there.)

I was the one who moved the penny, I was in NYC visiting that day and it fell on my head. It should ve landed East.