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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.


34 posted on 02/25/2012 4:18:51 PM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: RedStateRocker
Now the physics of a gunfight on a small, low gravity planet or planetoid would be very interesting.

Even mnore interesting would be the physics involved if said small, low gravity planetoid were toroidal...

the infowarrior

113 posted on 02/26/2012 1:15:23 AM PST by infowarrior
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