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Senior Member
Registered: 10-31-09
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Can a gun be shot from a gun in an area that contains no air, if so what would happen?
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Senior Member
Registered: 11-16-05
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quote: Can a gun be shot from a gun
Good trick, if you can do it... |
Senior Member
Registered: 07-14-09
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Yes, it can.. The rounds has their own oxidizer in the gunpowder, and is sealed.. No external oxygene needed...
The bullets would travel just as well as on earth, just farther since there is no air resistance.
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Senior Member
Registered: 11-16-05
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quote: The rounds has their own oxidizer in the gunpowder, and is sealed.. No external oxygene needed...
The OP never mentioned firing a bullet from a gun in space.... |
Senior Member
Registered: 07-14-09
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quote: Originally posted by rick4070: quote: Can a gun be shot from a gun
Good trick, if you can do it...
Hehee. Didn't see that at all  |
Senior Member
Registered: 11-16-05
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Senior Member
Registered: 07-14-09
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quote: Originally posted by rick4070: quote: The rounds has their own oxidizer in the gunpowder, and is sealed.. No external oxygene needed...
The OP never mentioned firing a bullet from a gun in space....
No.. but I think the OP meant fireing a round from a gun He just suffered a small typodevil.. |
Senior Member
Registered: 10-31-09
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Sorry, i meant to say can a gun be shot in an area with conditions like that of on the moon not a gun being shot from a gun
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Senior Member
Registered: 11-16-05
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OOOOHHHHH, in that case, sure, a gun can be fired in space, just as CitizenGKar states. |
Senior Member
Registered: 10-31-09
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Thank you for correcting me, im new  |
Senior Member
Registered: 11-16-05
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Just joshing you. Stick around, you will learn a lot here. |
Senior Member
Registered: 07-14-07
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quote: The bullets would travel just as well as on earth, just farther since there is no air resistance.
And less gravity to pull it down. |
Senior Member
Registered: 07-14-09
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quote: Originally posted by bsflag: quote: The bullets would travel just as well as on earth, just farther since there is no air resistance.
And less gravity to pull it down.
Correct.. 1/6th earth gravity infact.. |
Senior Member
Registered: 08-25-09
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quote: Originally posted by twerg: Thank you for correcting me, im new
Thank you Captain Obvious. :P In all seriousness, the best thing you can do as a new person here is use the FIND function every chance you get. I guarantee you, every idea you come up with for a new thread is actually a repost of something someone else has already posted, so you should use that thread to talk about it, not a new one you would create. |
Senior Member
Registered: 12-16-08
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In fact, if you could find a gun with a muzzle velocity of 5,511 feet per second, and shot it from a lunar mountain at the lunar horizon, you could shoot yourself in the back of the head!
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Senior Member
Registered: 04-19-09
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Isn't muzzle velocity the speed at which the muzzle of a gun moves back when it is fired? |
Senior Member
Registered: 03-29-07
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quote: Originally posted by erikmartin:
In fact, if you could find a gun with a muzzle velocity of 5,511 feet per second, and shot it from a lunar mountain at the lunar horizon, you could shoot yourself in the back of the head!
Nearly impossible. While we had to do this as an exercise in orbital mechanics 40 years ago, in reality, the Moon is far too inhomogeneous to get a true circular orbit. The Moon has a large number of Mascons that perturb the orbits of spacecraft orbiting around it and , so far, anything that was left in orbit and not deliberately crashed has crashed on it's own within a relatively short time. |
Junior Member
Registered: 11-26-08
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quote: Nearly impossible. While we had to do this as an exercise in orbital mechanics 40 years ago, in reality, the Moon is far too inhomogeneous to get a true circular orbit. The Moon has a large number of Mascons that perturb the orbits of spacecraft orbiting around it and , so far, anything that was left in orbit and not deliberately crashed has crashed on it's own within a relatively short time.
You made half those words up didn't you? Couldn't you have just said that there are bits of the moon with wacky gravity that would screw with the orbit of an object? |
Senior Member
Registered: 07-14-09
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quote: Originally posted by rikkochet: Isn't muzzle velocity the speed at which the muzzle of a gun moves back when it is fired?
I thought it was the speed of the muzzle of a horse when grazing haha |
Junior Member
Registered: 11-26-08
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quote: quote:
Originally posted by rikkochet:
Isn't muzzle velocity the speed at which the muzzle of a gun moves back when it is fired?
Originally posted by CitizenGKar:
I thought it was the speed of the muzzle of a horse when grazing haha
Nah, Muzzle velocity is the speed at which a person can put together a mud puzzle while greeting someone in a city with a german accent. Or is it...? |
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