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Re: [Phys-l] Killed by a Falling Bullet? - Myth busters.



I never enter into any of these threads but this 1 i have 2 make comment on!

The original post was highly interesting and the experiments carried out were quite "cool" in order to get an answer.

My point is, who actually cares that bullets are falling when they strike their target in relation to smart assed reply. The original post was interesting, yet the point that bullets fall slightly even when fired normally at a target is mundane!

I have no idea the magnitude a bullet falls when fired normally at a target, however, i would bet that it is such a minute number that any normal human being would not care in the slightest at!

yes, it may fall, but its not interesting so what was the point of the post? You actually say it as if you are serious about it which worries me!

Anyway, in relation to the original post that aroused interest, there is an episode of CSI, can't remember if it's las vegas or miami, where the vicitm is killed in that way, and they work out that it was a stray bullet from far away that mistakenly killed the person.

Perhaps when someone's killed at point blank range, they work out how much the bullet had fallen between the time it leaves the gun and when it hits the person!!! lol

Paul



----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Uretsky" <jlu@hep.anl.gov>
To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Killed by a Falling Bullet? - Myth busters.


But all bullets are falling when they strike their target.
Regards,
Jack

--
"Trust me. I have a lot of experience at this."
General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley



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