WIll a bullet fired into the air kill someone when it comes down.
If it's fired at an angle, yes, it can. They explicitly stated that and cited some documentation for that fact.
They did the preliminary experiment in an attempt to determine the terminal velocity of a falling bullet.
The discrepancy between their results and reality led to the 'bullet fired straight up' experiment.
Which demonstrated that a bullet falling straight down, even from a height of over ten thousand feet (if I recall correctly) has a decidedly non-lethal terminal velocity.
Again, the physics of a straight up vertically fired bullet are radically different than that of a bullet fired at an angle. As they demonstrated.
If you had paid attention to what they demonstrated, you would have seen that a bullet fired straight up and then falling straight down, is subjected to gravity and the resistance of the air as it passes though it.
The surface area of the bullet acts as a parachute, slowing the bullet to its maximum dropping speed. It also forces the bullet into a horizontal position.
You'd get a nasty thump on the head from a.308 round, and would barely notice a.22 round hitting your head.
The recorded cases of death are from bullets describing an arc from muzzle to impact. The energy of the bullet is maintained by the spinning of the round and that it's not expending it's kinetic energy by fighting against the pull of gravity and the friction of the air for the entire muzzle to impact time frame, as it would when fired straight up.
The physics are simple enough. Unfortunately, the physics are not simple enough for the average American viewer.
Drop a.308 bullet off a 20 floor, 50 floor or 100 floor building. It will hit the ground with the same force, as the terminal velocity will be the same.
That the same Billy Meier who got caught faking UFO sightings on film, via homemade models on a string? Who claims to have been in contact with aliens?
Where one's comment can go from "Interesting" and "Insightful" to "Troll" in less than a day.
Even more interesting when all one writes is the truth.
Man, and I thought Randroids with mod points were dicks. Smelly Linux Hippies are just as bad. (insert smiley emoticon here indicating snark. if I used emoticons. which I don't.)
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So, what part of the fact that the Phone Companies refuse to push the latest Android update because they're too sodding cheap to pay the modest fee per user is "Trolling"?
More "Flamebait" actually. That's how I would mod it, and I WROTE it.
Of course, the teabaggers who point and laugh about teleprompters ignore the reality of Chimpy's innumerable verbal gaffes, as well as his intellectual failings.
They also ignore President Obama's verbal and intellectual pwning of the GOP in 2009 during a live, televised Q &A event. The pwnage was so epic that the GOP NEVER again permitted a similar event.
You know, just admit it. You and your ilk hate President Obama because, to quote the teabaggers, he's a "god damned fucking nigger!"
If President Obama was white and a Republican, you and your ilk would be kissing his ass, rationalizing his every action and statement, and otherwise doing exactly what you did for the eight years Chimpy McCokespoon was disgracing the White House and America.
Keep in mind, we have 8 years of Chimpy McCokespoon's incoherence at our fingertips, thanks toYouTube.
Of course, if one speaks of GOP verbal gaffes, then the name of Dan Quayle must lead the list!
Finally, DO keep quiet concerning teleprompters, lest Google Images must be consulted for thousands of images of Reagan, Bush Senior, Bush Junior, Huckabee, Romney, McCain, and Failin' Bailin' Palin all using teleprompters, and in case of the Wasilla Chillbilly, her left hand as a post it note.
Within arm's reach is my Z80 CP/M cartridge for the C=64. Archived are quite a few 5.25" floppies with my CP/M software and files.
With an inexpensive EPYX FastLoad cartridge, followed on by many utility cartridges, 1541, 1571 and 1581 disk drive performance improved dramatically. When the JiffyDOS chip replacement package came along, most utility cartridges were kept more for their other uses than disk I/O speedup.
Keeping the original 1541 and 1571 drives in alignment was made easy via DIY kits and even some 'headknocking' software.
I used my C=64 for: Text editing Spreadsheet Music composing Graphics Intercepting and displaying shortwave radioteletype text and images Both BASIC and ML programming
The diverse input devices I used were: Keyboard Joystick Mouse Graphics Tablet Music keyboard Microphone Handheld Digital scanner
Yes, one could play games on the C=64...
When one needed a break from doing serious work with it.
So, yes, you ARE a troll. And not a very good one, either.
"I'm interested in what Mars is like, not in how impressive pictures of Mars can appear after a session through lightroom-on-steroids."
To reiterate:
"To equate either with Photoshopped imagery is to betray a level of ignorance that one should well be embarrassed to display in public."
You just cannot seem to get away from the nose in the air attitude towards the use of color to convey information, can you?
If you go to the University of Arizona site, you can see all these images in their original 256 greyscale "goodness". Oh, wait. These images have been enhanced as well. Messing with the contrast and brightness and what not. Horrors!
Sucks to be you, doesn't it.
How the very Moon itself must vex you, what with that garishly bright silvery white glare when it's full. Pray, do you stand out in the garden at night and shake your fist in impotent rage at the Moon, knowing that the Lunar surface is actually the color of old, Sun bleached asphalt? "It should be GRAY, GRAY dammit, not that false white colour! I shall write a letter to the paper about this damned outrage!"
"Amazingly photoshopped, with more kohl and false colours than a Soho gal. I don't know about others, but I am more impressed when pictures haven't been exaggerated"
The use of color to indicate variances in terrain elevation is common.
The use of false color to indicate areas of differing surface chemistry and elements is common in remote imaging.
To equate either with Photoshopped imagery is to betray a level of ignorance that one should well be embarrassed to display in public.
"...Tell them to approve a short-term version that removes the FDA's War on Food..."
I stopped reading that site the instant I saw that. If wanted to read infantile Libertarian fantasy, I've got an old L. Neil Smith paperback around here someplace. Probably doing something useful, like being stuck under the short leg of a wobbly table.
Apparently, the FDA seeking to enforce its mandate to ensure the cleanliness of food and food processing facilities is, according to the Randroids, a "War on Food".
"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying ANY Income Tax!"
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WIll a bullet fired into the air kill someone when it comes down.
If it's fired at an angle, yes, it can. They explicitly stated that and cited some documentation for that fact.
They did the preliminary experiment in an attempt to determine the terminal velocity of a falling bullet.
The discrepancy between their results and reality led to the 'bullet fired straight up' experiment.
Which demonstrated that a bullet falling straight down, even from a height of over ten thousand feet (if I recall correctly) has a decidedly non-lethal terminal velocity.
Again, the physics of a straight up vertically fired bullet are radically different than that of a bullet fired at an angle. As they demonstrated.
The physics are simple. As they demonstrated.
If you had paid attention to what they demonstrated, you would have seen that a bullet fired straight up and then falling straight down, is subjected to gravity and the resistance of the air as it passes though it.
The surface area of the bullet acts as a parachute, slowing the bullet to its maximum dropping speed. It also forces the bullet into a horizontal position.
You'd get a nasty thump on the head from a .308 round, and would barely notice a .22 round hitting your head.
The recorded cases of death are from bullets describing an arc from muzzle to impact. The energy of the bullet is maintained by the spinning of the round and that it's not expending it's kinetic energy by fighting against the pull of gravity and the friction of the air for the entire muzzle to impact time frame, as it would when fired straight up.
The physics are simple enough. Unfortunately, the physics are not simple enough for the average American viewer.
Drop a .308 bullet off a 20 floor, 50 floor or 100 floor building. It will hit the ground with the same force, as the terminal velocity will be the same.
That the same Billy Meier who got caught faking UFO sightings on film, via homemade models on a string? Who claims to have been in contact with aliens?
THAT Billy Meier?
You own a LOT of SCO stock, don't you?
Via Verizon pushing the upgrade? Or some other method?
Whoosh!
The sound of the whole point of the comment flying SO FAR over your head that the International Space Station is in danger of being impacted.
sudo GET THE POINT!
It's about the Phone Companies refusing to pay the modest fee per user for the upgrade.
Where one's comment can go from "Interesting" and "Insightful" to "Troll" in less than a day.
Even more interesting when all one writes is the truth.
Man, and I thought Randroids with mod points were dicks. Smelly Linux Hippies are just as bad. (insert smiley emoticon here indicating snark. if I used emoticons. which I don't.)
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So, what part of the fact that the Phone Companies refuse to push the latest Android update because they're too sodding cheap to pay the modest fee per user is "Trolling"?
More "Flamebait" actually. That's how I would mod it, and I WROTE it.
...App Store starting to look a little better?
Of course, when the latest Android 2.2 phone OS gets pushed to the phones, everything will be better.
Oh, right. The PhoneCos are refusing to push that upgrade .
Shall we compare her to a Summer's Eve ?
Fixed that for you.
Q: So when David Tennant goes to get his paycheck, Who gets the money?
A: Every dollar of it. After all, the man earns it.
That would be,
"Every Pound of it. After all, the man earns it."
"Funny, most of those aren't racist"
And funny how you choose to ignore the fact that a lot of them ARE racist.
And if you're going to mention "race-baiting". let's not forget good old Jesse Helms " Hands " political commercial, or the GOP " Southern Strategy ".
Oh, so you admit that the teabaggers are racists!
McCain teleprompter
Palin teleprompter
Reagan teleprompter
Chimpy McCokespoon teleprompter
Citing The Onion does not equal reality.
Of course, the teabaggers who point and laugh about teleprompters ignore the reality of Chimpy's innumerable verbal gaffes, as well as his intellectual failings.
They also ignore President Obama's verbal and intellectual pwning of the GOP in 2009 during a live, televised Q &A event. The pwnage was so epic that the GOP NEVER again permitted a similar event.
You know, just admit it. You and your ilk hate President Obama because, to quote the teabaggers, he's a "god damned fucking nigger!"
If President Obama was white and a Republican, you and your ilk would be kissing his ass, rationalizing his every action and statement, and otherwise doing exactly what you did for the eight years Chimpy McCokespoon was disgracing the White House and America.
"Peeance, Freeance"
"Can't get fooled again."
"Too Many OBGYN's can't practice their love with women all across this country"
You were saying?
Keep in mind, we have 8 years of Chimpy McCokespoon's incoherence at our fingertips, thanks toYouTube.
Of course, if one speaks of GOP verbal gaffes, then the name of Dan Quayle must lead the list!
Finally, DO keep quiet concerning teleprompters, lest Google Images must be consulted for thousands of images of Reagan, Bush Senior, Bush Junior, Huckabee, Romney, McCain, and Failin' Bailin' Palin all using teleprompters, and in case of the Wasilla Chillbilly, her left hand as a post it note.
Within arm's reach is my Z80 CP/M cartridge for the C=64. Archived are quite a few 5.25" floppies with my CP/M software and files.
With an inexpensive EPYX FastLoad cartridge, followed on by many utility cartridges, 1541, 1571 and 1581 disk drive performance improved dramatically. When the JiffyDOS chip replacement package came along, most utility cartridges were kept more for their other uses than disk I/O speedup.
Keeping the original 1541 and 1571 drives in alignment was made easy via DIY kits and even some 'headknocking' software.
I used my C=64 for:
Text editing
Spreadsheet
Music composing
Graphics
Intercepting and displaying shortwave radioteletype text and images
Both BASIC and ML programming
The diverse input devices I used were:
Keyboard
Joystick
Mouse
Graphics Tablet
Music keyboard
Microphone
Handheld Digital scanner
Yes, one could play games on the C=64...
When one needed a break from doing serious work with it.
So, yes, you ARE a troll. And not a very good one, either.
"I'm interested in what Mars is like, not in how impressive pictures of Mars can appear after a session through lightroom-on-steroids."
To reiterate:
"To equate either with Photoshopped imagery is to betray a level of ignorance that one should well be embarrassed to display in public."
You just cannot seem to get away from the nose in the air attitude towards the use of color to convey information, can you?
If you go to the University of Arizona site, you can see all these images in their original 256 greyscale "goodness". Oh, wait. These images have been enhanced as well. Messing with the contrast and brightness and what not. Horrors!
Sucks to be you, doesn't it.
How the very Moon itself must vex you, what with that garishly bright silvery white glare when it's full. Pray, do you stand out in the garden at night and shake your fist in impotent rage at the Moon, knowing that the Lunar surface is actually the color of old, Sun bleached asphalt? "It should be GRAY, GRAY dammit, not that false white colour! I shall write a letter to the paper about this damned outrage!"
Botnets! Worldwide botnets!
What kind of boxes are on on botnets?
Compaq, HP, Dell and Sony, true!
Gateway, Packard Bell, maybe even Asus, too.
Are boxes! Found on botnets!
All running Windows. FOO!
Why, yes! Yes I Am a smug, OS X using bastard!
How kind of you to notice!
"Amazingly photoshopped, with more kohl and false colours than a Soho gal. I don't know about others, but I am more impressed when pictures haven't been exaggerated"
The use of color to indicate variances in terrain elevation is common.
The use of false color to indicate areas of differing surface chemistry and elements is common in remote imaging.
To equate either with Photoshopped imagery is to betray a level of ignorance that one should well be embarrassed to display in public.
My HP-45 calculator has a 10 digit LED display, you insensitive clod!
Racist fuckwad troll is racist.
Racist Fuckwad Troll Is Racist.
Racist Fuckwad Troll is Racist.
"That would require you to think about backups, and pro-actively set up time machine."
"...pro-actively set up time machine"???
You plug in an external drive. It asks if you want to use it as the Time Machine drive. You click 'YES'.
"...pro-actively set up time machine" Jeebus!
RE: Campaign for Liberty
"...Tell them to approve a short-term version that removes the FDA's War on Food..."
I stopped reading that site the instant I saw that. If wanted to read infantile Libertarian fantasy, I've got an old L. Neil Smith paperback around here someplace. Probably doing something useful, like being stuck under the short leg of a wobbly table.
Apparently, the FDA seeking to enforce its mandate to ensure the cleanliness of food and food processing facilities is, according to the Randroids, a "War on Food".
"I'm trapped on Gilligan's Island, but I'm not paying ANY Income Tax!"
MaryAyn Rand
As seen at MIT:
A Shopping Cart Full Of Roombas.
YOU WIN!!