Come on, Jeff...you know better than to ask why people to stupid things...Hell, we've watched the Rockets for over two months now this season, and there's just no way to explain it...
Here are the stats you wanted VDP: *Souce - National Highway Traffic Safety Administration FARS data New Year's Eve (December 31, 2001) Total Fatalities: 118 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 45 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 38.1% New Years Day (January 1, 2002): Total Fatalities: 165 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 94 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 57.0% New Years Holiday (6:00 pm 12/29/01 - 5:59 AM 1/2/02) Total Fatalities: 575 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 301 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 52.3% Super Bowl Sunday (2/3/02 - 5:59 AM 2/4/02) Total Fatalities: 147 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 86 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 58.5% St. Patrick's Day (3/17/02 - 5:59 am 3/18/02) Total Fatalities: 158 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 72 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 45.6% Memorial Day (6pm 5/24/02 - 5:59 am 5/28/02) Total Fatalities: 491 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 237 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 48.2% 4th of July (6pm 7/3/02 - 5:59 am 7/5/02) Total Fatalities: 683 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 330 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 48.3% Labor (6pm 8/30/02 - 5:59 am 9/3/02) Total Fatalities: 541 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 300 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 55.5% Halloween (10/31/02 - 11/01/02) Total Fatalities: 268 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 109 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 40.7% Thanksgiving (6 pm 11/27/02 - 5:59 am 12/02/02) Total Fatalities: 543 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 255 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 47.0% Christmas (6 pm 12/24/01 - 5:59 am 12/26/01) Total Fatalities: 130 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 68 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 52.3% New Year's Eve (December 31, 2002) Total Fatalities: 123 Alcohol-Related Fatalities: 57 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 46.3% Thanksgiving-Christmas Holiday (11/27/02 - 12/31/02) Total Fatalities: 4,019 Alcohol-Related: 1.561 Percentage of Alcohol-Related: 38.8%
So you're saying that alcohol could be administered to the world in an attempt at population control.
It happens a lot. When an object goes up, like a bullet, it looses speed due to gravity at a constant rate. It gains it back again at the same rate as it falls. (Actually, the object -- like a bullet -- won't gain exactly the same amount of energy because of air friction. But the bullet's pretty aerodynamic, so it doesn't loose enough energy to make it safe.) Remember, it's basically a falling object on the way down, and there's the old story about a penny being dropped of the empire state building has enough energy to kill someone. Throw a brick up in the air and stand under it to get the same effect.
Yes, someone please correct this,...I have believed this, then heard otherwise,...I don't know what to think?...
To answer the question posed in the thread title, I believe it is an error common in the Information Technology world. We call it an I - D - Ten - T error (ID10T error). I believe in the Constitution, including the second Amendment, but I do believe that we should have a national ballistics database so that when this stuff happens, we can track the morons down and incarcerate them.
http://www.menshealth.co.uk/life/articles/whatwouldhappen/24/article.php Threw a coin off the Empire State Building If it fell perfectly from this 1,250ft (390m) high tower, your coin would reach close to 210mph. But this isn’t a perfect world; air comes into play, so the penny would be somersaulting like mad. It would reach terminal velocity when the downward and upward forces were equal, meaning it wouldn’t even get a speeding ticket on the M1 as it would reach just 50mph. Still capable of leaving a fair dent in the head of anyone down below. A more dangerous projectile is a pen. It’s heavier on one end, so it would cut through the air and fall like a javelin at almost 200mph!
Ahhhh, apparently not. They tried this legend on "Mythbuster's" on the Discovery channel. They even showed that conditions being perfect, a penny's terminal velocity is far slower than imagined, travelling only about 50-60 mph. But they showed that a penny travelling around two hundred mph would still do nothing more than scratch the skin, possibly resulting in a bump and bruise. They went into far more detail than I can remember, but it is not possible to ever kill someone with a penny.
When the bullet drops from the sky, it accelerates initially. With the speed increases, the air friction increases. Very soon, the air friction will be equal to the weight of the bullet. After that, the bullet will drop at a constant speed. The speed of the dropping bullet should be just a little larger than the speed of a rain drop. I read somewhere many years ago that the speed of a rain drop is around 50m/s. It is fast enough to kill a person if the bullets falls on the person's head. Moochi maybe an exception due to his hair style.
