If you fired a bullet in a desert...

[SWP's back]

If u fired the bullet and dropped one at the same time from the same height theyd hit the ground at the same time

That's not true.
It's the same as someone saying if you put 2 glasses of water in a -20 degree freezer, one glass containing 10 degree water, the other glass just below boiling point, the hot one would freeze first. It wouldn't. It'd cool down at a faster rate but let's say after 5 minutes, it reaches 10 degrees. In those 5 minutes, what do you think the 10 degree glass has been doing?.....tying it's fucking laces waiting for the other glass to catch up?

Also, if you fired a missile horizontally from the top of Mount Everest, it would carry on going rather than drop to the ground even if it ran out of fuel because it would follow the curvature of the Earth and therefore become a satellite. So whoever tries doing that had better watch out because it could come back round and hit them up the jacksie.

This post is so badly wrong it's scary.

Very much so. Especially the water freezing one. He should try it. I have and was amazed a few years back when I heard about it.

 

[East Level 2]

Also, if you fired a missile horizontally from the top of Mount Everest, it would carry on going rather than drop to the ground even if it ran out of fuel because it would follow the curvature of the Earth and therefore become a satellite. So whoever tries doing that had better watch out because it could come back round and hit them up the jacksie.

In other news the Physics syllabus has been dumbed down as much as the Maths syllabus.
Unless gravity disappears at the top of Everest and the lack of floating climbers suggests it doesn't. Rio level thickness I'm afraid.

 

[2sheikhs]

:)

 

[666mcfcchris]

If u fired the bullet and dropped one at the same time from the same height theyd hit the ground at the same time

I'd heard this many moons ago and merely thought it was bollocks,but now that i have seen it repeated on here, I am now convinced its a pile of doggy doo.

to check results, I dropped a £1 a 50 pee and a two bob out of the bedroom window.
I can now confirm I have lost £1-70 and might have shot a neighbour.

Chris<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:20 am --<br /><br />We never did desert experiments before the Sheik came,did we? Yet another area where we are improving.

Keep on like this and in a few years, we'll be talking sense.....or is that just a dream??

Chris

 

[Gelsons Dad]

and a bullet dropped at the same time as a bullet fired from a gun horizontally will hit the ground at the same time

Nonsensical nonsense

Stop wumming.

Mythbusters tested it and it is 100% true.

This is not correct. What they showed was that to the human eye using low velocity rounds it appears to be true. In fact the dropped bullet landed first as physics would predict.

Unless you subscribe to flat earth theory.

 

[666mcfcchris]

Unless you subscribe to flat earth theory.[/quote]

Is it a weekly or monthly?

 

[pominoz]

Nonsensical nonsense

Stop wumming.

Mythbusters tested it and it is 100% true.

This is not correct. What they showed was that to the human eye using low velocity rounds it appears to be true. In fact the dropped bullet landed first as physics would predict.

Unless you subscribe to flat earth theory.

And they let you pilot planes?

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[TGR]

OK - I have been discussing this with a very clever friend of mine...
His questions to answer this conundrum are:

The height of the person firing the bullet?
The calibre of the gun?
The relative air humidity of the ambient (he has assumed less than 5%)?
The temperature (he has assumed 26 degrees Celsius)?
The latitude location of the desert (as the seasonal tilt of the earth on its axis will effect the g pull of the bullet)?

We await your reply and then he come back with a definitive answer.

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Stop wumming.

Mythbusters tested it and it is 100% true.

This is not correct. What they showed was that to the human eye using low velocity rounds it appears to be true. In fact the dropped bullet landed first as physics would predict.

Unless you subscribe to flat earth theory.

And they let you pilot planes?

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/lm/ch06/ch06.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_book ... /ch06.html</a>

This should do the trick.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPlbDEI63B4[/youtube]

 

[Gelsons Dad]

OK - I have been discussing this with a very clever friend of mine...
His questions to answer this conundrum are:

The height of the person firing the bullet?
The calibre of the gun?
The relative air humidity of the ambient (he has assumed less than 5%)?
The temperature (he has assumed 26 degrees Celsius)?
The latitude location of the desert (as the seasonal tilt of the earth on its axis will effect the g pull of the bullet)?

We await your reply and then he come back with a definitive answer.

Six foot
.220 Swift (4000fps)
5%
30°C
Atacama desert 3200m elevation latitude 16°50 South. Facing East.