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



"What you've now accomplished by this reply is to basically guarantee that this list member will never venture another reply."

I learned very quickly one must develop a thick skin here or remain a lurker (Not a bad development for bc). I also found this list considerable more forgiving of unpopular views than another one, yes, really.

In correcting the dump into my inbox of 6k old msgs by my ISP due to their imap failure, I found this:




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Rick Tarara wrote:

But Jack, leaving all the below out of your initial response then DID make it sound like a 'smart assed' reply. (If you find that language offensive, then I suggest finding yourself a hole to craw in and pull the covers over your head.) If you wanted to make the points below--then make them. Too often your replies are similarly cryptic. What you've now accomplished by this reply is to basically guarantee that this list member will never venture another reply.

Rick



----- 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 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Killed by a Falling Bullet? - Myth busters.



I suggest that the net supervisor admonish this use of intemperate
language.

The original post omitted a crucial step and seemed to encourage a lethal
and dangerous practice. A bullet fired upward at an engle that is not
precisely vertical has horizontal as well as vertical velocity when it
returns to earth - that's the principal of the howitzer, which is to lob
artillery shells over obstacles. Assuming that a bullet dropped from the
maximum height of a vertically fired bullet is not lethal in all
circumstance, what is the minimum deviation from exactly vertical that
would make the bullet lethal in most circumstances.

Also, my ill-mannered friend seems to be reading more into the original
post that was originally said. There were was no quantification in the
original post of the concept of "falling".
Regards,
Jack


On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Paul.A.Giusti wrote:


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

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General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley



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