Cops and loud music draws gunfire at campground

AO_hitech wrote:

pasusan wrote:
Here's a new busted myth for you then. At a New Year's Eve celebration in our town a few years ago a man did just that - fired a gun into the air. The bullet came down onto and into a little girl's head - she died.

Well, either that did not happen, or that is the story the boyfriend told. First, it is almost impossible to fire straight up. The bullet is always at a slight angle (Mythbusters couldn't get a bullet to fall straight back down). A bullet can be fired into the air and have enough velocity when it returns to cause damage, if it has a low enough arc when it is fired. How low that is I'm not sure, but everyone you can see is safe. Terminal velocity of any bullet just isn't that fast.

well.... that is not entirely true. Mythbusters couldnt get the bullet to fire straight up, but that being said. they did not conduct the experiment in a vaccum, where terminal velocity experiments are generally conducted. That being said... a lot goes into building an accurate bullet.

Mass does have a play in terminal velocity but not because of its weight, but its drag. terminal vel is 32ft/sec/sec