Your Not Going to BELIEVE THIS: Participant at KKK initiation wounded

Wow, the KKK sounds like a frat these days.

 

whats the last thing a red neck says before he dies?

"Hey guys, WATCH THIS!"

 

This happened a few years ago to a young teenage girl in San Diego who was in her own backyard.

 

It happened here, somewhere in north Houston, on New Year's eve about 5-7 years ago. A father killed his own daughter.

 

Where do people think these bullets go when they shoot them in the air?

So stupid.

 

Nobody said you have to have an high IQ to get into the KKK, those guys are idiots in so many ways.

 

Every time I see a TV show about the KKK, they all get interviewed and come across as being quite a few French fries short of a Happy Meal. Not the brightest lights in the harbor.

 

Can someone do the maths and tell me how much force was on that bullet when it came down?

 

Stuff like this happens every year when somebody is celebrating something and shooting guns in the air.

They shoot guns in the air all the time in Arab countries. I wonder how many people a year are killed by people shooting guns in the air in celebration.

 

If you neglect air resistance, it has to return to Earth with the same speed it had initially: the muzzle velocity. However, it is quite a bit slower due to air resistance. I don't want to work the problem, and we'd need more information on the bullet anyway. Maybe one of the gun enthusiasts around here would have a more exact idea.

 

There used to be a rather significant barrio next to my old house in Montrose, on Sul Ross and Woodhead, that sounded like freaking shootout on New Years Eve. Several drunk guys shooting their guns into the air. Yeah, thats a lot of fun. Idiots.

Scared the crap outta my dog and I hated living on top floor of duplex, just waiting for bullet to come through the roof.

 

You'd think as thick headed as those fools are the bullets would just bounce right off.

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Wouldn't a bullet shot straight up reach its apex and then fall back to the KKK knucklehead at a terminal velocity far slower than the original muzzle velocity?

Here is a site that will figure this out (I think)

http://www.processassociates.com/process/separate/termvel.htm

 

That's what I would have thought, but what the hell do I know!

 

I'm not sure that is correct. If the bullet travelled straight up, it wouldn't start comming back down until it reached it's apex and lost all velocity. So it would be like someone just dropping the bullet from that height. The speed at impact would be whatever it could reach from gravity working against it until reached its terminal velocity. The muzzle velocity would have nothing to do with it.

 

Neglecting air resistance (as previously mentioned), conservation of energy dictates that the kinetic energy of the bullet is transformed into potential energy as it goes skyward, until it reaches it's apex, and then all the kinetic energy is potential energy. On it's fall to earth, all of this potential energy becomes kinetic energy again.

Or something like that.

 

To add:

You are right, the bullet would accelerate up to its terminal velocity (which would be infinite, if we neglect air resistance). The terminal velocity of the bullet might even be higher than the muzzle velocity of the gun, that is to say, the terminal velocity might not be reached before the bullet strikes the ground. Unlikely, but possible.

 

karma 1, KKK 0

this event for me settled the notion that god might not exist. she does exist and has a heck of a sense of humor. i call for more irony!

 

I don't want to pull rank, and anyway, Bailey's got it as I would have typed it.

The bottom line is, as I posted above, air resistance is very significant, so the bullet will reach the ground moving a slower speed than when it left the gun. All objects, based on their size, shape, and mass density, have a "terminal velocity." SJC's nice website will compute that for us, but I have no clue as to what the viscosity of air is. If somebody looks that up and plugs it into that velocity calculator, then we'll know the speed of the moron's bullet!