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To: Dr.Zoidberg

Just what would firing a rifle in space be like?
Muzzle velocity, trajectory, recoil... ?


21 posted on 02/23/2007 1:49:29 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (islam is a mutant meme)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Just what would firing a rifle in space be like?
Muzzle velocity, trajectory, recoil... ?


I guess you would spin in circles until you vomited.

As for the rest, I have no idea. I'm not a ballistics computer.
26 posted on 02/23/2007 1:56:06 PM PST by Dr.Zoidberg (Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
"Muzzle velocity, trajectory, recoil... ?"

Muzzle velocity would be generally unaffected, but after it left the muzzle it would not suffer from aerodynamic drag. The recoil impulse would be unafeccted (every action has an equal and opposite reaction...) but felt recoil would be increased substantially as the weight of the weapon is one of the primary means of taming recoil. he trajectory would remain a generally straight line until and unless the gravity of another body acted upon it.

27 posted on 02/23/2007 1:59:02 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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