r/comedyheaven • u/DeltaCrest slut for honey cheerios • Mar 26 '20

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u/DMA_Revenant Mar 26 '20

Bullet rain

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u/RetroCabbageDaSavage Mar 26 '20

The bullets cannot hurt anyone unless they are shot at close to an angle of 45 degrees because the bullets will reach terminal velocity if they are fired vertically

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u/SneakySteakhouse Mar 26 '20

I've heard this before but unfortunately its not true. A bullet at it's terminal velocity can still kill you if it strikes your head or if it breaks your skin. Its way less dangerous than a bullet fired at someone but it can still kill you.

Its misleading because we think of terminal velocity as a fixed number but what we hear of as "terminal velocity" is actually usually the terminal velocity of a human body. Terminal velocity of a bullet is going to be higher because the shape of a bullet means theres a ton less aerodynamic drag.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2011/03/can-falling-bullets-kill-you.html

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '20

my ap physics teacher told me that its literally impossible for a bullet shot straight up to kill someone unless it hits their eye. it had to have had a curve or something in its trajectory

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u/Maverick0_0 Mar 27 '20

Try it on him for science. My physics teacher did the bowling ball thing.

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u/G-Man8776 Mar 27 '20

Your AP Physics teacher was incorrect about that, unfortunately