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| Author: | pcernie [ Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away |
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World- ... 3798?f=rss I wouldn't have figured an AK-47 round would have travelled 2 or 3 miles and still had the sort of velocity to come through a church roof*  , but then I'm no expert  *Maybe a Barrett sniper rifle or something like that
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away |
I'm guessing that if the bullet were fired at a certain angle, it would reach the height required to build up a sufficient velocity to go through the roof when it came back down. It all sounds rather CSI ish but you've gotta feel for the parents. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:11 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away | |||||||||
Fundamentally it's just ballistic physics. If you fire a bullet at the right angle, it'll hit the ground eventually at a fair percentage of the velocity it left the barrel doing. Acceleration due to gravity counteracting air resistance and what have you. That's more than enough to kill someone. I always remember back in the day when there was war in Beirut, you'd see people dancing in the streets firing AK-47's into the air. None of the people seemed to have figured out that what goes up must come down... Jon |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUS89-_f ... L&index=12 I doubt a bullet has a terminal velocity much higher than that and remember after going through a roof it ain't gonne be doing terminal velocity. I don't think the idea of shooting it up in the air and it falling and killing someone is plausible. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away |
Hmm. I think a scientific study is required. Line up more four year olds for testing purposes! |
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:54 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away | |||||||||
Couldn't we just call the CSI people and ask them to set up a series of experiments? With the funky music and visual effects they'd have it done in 30 seconds flat. 
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 1:12 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away | ||||||||||||||||||
Only if that Catherine girl's involved, the MILF-esque ex-stripper one 
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| Author: | John_Vella [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:32 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Or Montana, from CSI:NY |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Tue Jan 05, 2010 2:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Stray Bullet Kills Boy Up To Three Miles Away |
I never really bought into CSI NY for whatever reason, so I've never seen her in the show. |
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