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What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space?
Life Little Mysteries ^
| 2/17/2010
| Natalie Wolchover
Posted on 02/25/2012 3:43:56 PM PST by U-238
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To: U-238
Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space,...Yeah, duh, the sun is a reflection.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:04:51 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: U-238
“Imagine you’re floating freely in the vacuum between galaxies — just you, your gun and a single bullet.”
I’m guessing I would also have a suit with some oxygen? Then I’d enjoy the view until my tank got low and point the gun in the opposite direction of the cosmos.
If I didn’t have a suit and tank... well, this is just silly then!
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:05:36 PM PST
by
21twelve
To: U-238
As sound does not propogate in space the ATF would promptly arrest you for having a suppressor.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:05:52 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: U-238
If you are in space, but in some type of orbit and fire the gun in a tangential direction to your orbit, you will go to a higher orbit.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:06:02 PM PST
by
Balata
(It's 'WE THE PEOPLE' Obama, not 'WE THE SHEEPLE'!)
To: U-238
Why would you shoot a gun?
Shoot a space alien instead.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:06:42 PM PST
by
DannyTN
To: beelzepug
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:08:55 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: EGPWS
Yeah, duh, the sun is a reflection.
The sun is a nuclear reaction.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:09:27 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Lazlo in PA
What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space?
"It would be bad… Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:09:33 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Mitt Romney is SEVERELY conservative - and I'm SEVERELY against giving him my vote!)
To: U-238
Can’t get a gun aboard a rocket or a shuttle. Those creepy people at the body scanners and screeners would find it for sure.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:12:15 PM PST
by
KingLudd
To: beelzepug
Are you allowed to carry concealed in space?I'd rather carry open, unzipping your jacket to get to your piece might be problematic.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I miss Firefly.
I read something the other day that said the SYFY channel was working on a series somehow related to Firefly.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:14:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: cripplecreek
The sun is a nuclear reaction.Meet the M65 nuclear rifle! :-D
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:15:57 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: U-238
The Thompson was the favorite gun of the Star Treks.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:16:30 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
To: U-238
But the physics involved does point to one of my major pet peeves in movies- someone getting hit by a bullet or shotgun blast and flying 10 feet backwards. it is flat out impossible for the projectile to strike the target with more kinetic energy than it delivers to the shooter; thus if it would filing ME backwards 10 feet it won’t do so to a similar sized person I hit.
Now the physics of a gunfight on a small, low gravity planet or planetoid would be very interesting.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:18:51 PM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
To: EGPWS
I kinda like that revolver that Hellboy carries.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:20:12 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: EGPWS
Here's a picture of an A-10 without its clothing. (VW is for size comparison only)
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:22:19 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: U-238
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:24:54 PM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: cripplecreek
Cool!
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:25:42 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Lazamataz
...Bugs Bunny would peek out the barrel with a little BANG flag, kiss you on the nose, then dive back into the barrel.Well, if your gun/rifle is on your shoulder when you pull the trigger then you probably wouldn't have time to see Bugs Bunny cause it would put you into a spin without end.
Of course that wouldn't be true if you are in a 'No Spin Zone'.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:25:42 PM PST
by
Balata
(It's 'WE THE PEOPLE' Obama, not 'WE THE SHEEPLE'!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I think the soviets already fired a machine gun in space on one
of their early space stations causing lots of damage
to the station with the recoil.
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posted on
02/25/2012 4:35:06 PM PST
by
sarge83
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