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Re: one of the two days A quote from the link above:
Mohler also told them about a case of an elderly man in Alameda who was talking to his wife underneath a plastic corrugated roof in his carport. His eyes rolled up and his wife thought he was having a stroke. When they got to the hospital they found out there was a bullet in his brain and, unfortunately, he died.
"I know for a fact that bullets fired at a distance, returning to Earth, with terminal velocity, have the ability to kill people." - Dr. Mohler
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That bullet went through the corrugated plastic roofing material, into the man's head and killed him, at terminal velocity.
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| said by GadgetsRme:That bullet went through the corrugated plastic roofing material, into the man's head and killed him, at terminal velocity. This is what bothers me about the panic over "celebratory gunfire." Nowhere in that article did it say the bullet passed through the roofing, nor the angle of entry.
In Phoenix, we hear about incidents like this, but then it turns out the bullet came in at a 30- to 45-degree angle. Most people don't consider shooting at a bird or sign within city limits to be celebratory. That's clearly a dangerous act. (A bullet traveling at 600fps or greater.). Not as dangerous as a bullet falling at 200fps.
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Let me do the math for you. I'm using the worst case scenario.
A 9mm bullet weighs about 8g.
Terminal Velocity as tested is about 150ft/sec.
Using the formula to calculate joules (kg*m/s^2), you come out with appx 6.9 joules of energy.
If you drop a small apple from 25', that is the same amount of force of about 7 joules. Trust me, it WON'T KILL YOU. As stated before, worst case scenario is it breaks the skin.
The only WAY it could kill you is if the HORIZONTAL velocity (i.e. fired at an angle) is still high. A bullet traveling at 600fps is NOT a linear power increase, it's a logarithmic increase. 600fps would result in over 125j of energy, which could certainly kill you.
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