Small Facts That Blow My Mind

[madjockmcferson]

Fuck, small things amaze me every day. I'm back at uni, doing a Bachelor of Science degree and though I'm having a hard time at the moment (the brain sometimes freezes once you start ticking the 35-45 box) there are enough moments that make me just sit back and you wow, WTF.

 

Take for instance the fact that if I fired a bullet horizontally, it would more or less hit the ground at the same time as if I had dropped it.

 

Small facts like this (well important ones really as our world would be very different if this weren't true) blow my mind on an almost daily basis.

 

Gotta love science....but its a mind fuck..... and this is just scraping the surface.

[Redstar]

You should watch "Mythbusters" chief...it'll blow your mind

[fine-n-dandy]

You should watch "Mythbusters" chief...it'll blow your mind

Exactly. Why go back to being a fkn scumbag student (unless to take advantage of the other younger scumbag students) when you can learn as much from mythbusters?

[CtS]

Whilst testing this theory I suggest you point the gun towards Ibrox.

[madjockmcferson]

Mythbusters is ok.

 

My wife is a Uni professor here in the US and I get free tuition...and I hated my previous job, so here I am.

[fine-n-dandy]

Mythbusters is ok.

 

My wife is a Uni professor here in the US and I get free tuition...and I hated my previous job, so here I am.

Students always have a ready made excuse.

[tup]

Are they Mormons or something on Mythbusters?

 

Pair of weirdos.

[dervish]

Aye that's because the horizontal component of the travel is the same as if you dropped it.

 

One that fucks my head is that by the time the light from your monitor hits your eye. Your comp will have worked out easily 10 more things prob more.

 

 

[dave_min]

Take for instance the fact that if I fired a bullet horizontally, it would more or less hit the ground at the same time as if I had dropped it.

 

You've over-simplified this scenario to an unrealistic level.

 

This would only be true if you were to drop/fire this bullet in a vacumn.

[daytripping]

You've over-simplified this scenario to an unrealistic level.

 

This would only be true if you were to drop/fire this bullet in a vacumn.

 

Yep precisely my thoughts, also depends on what type of gun you fire, a sniper rifle for example is capable of a kill from more than a mile away, it will take about 3 seconds for the bullet to hit the target.

[dave_min]

Yep precisely my thoughts, also depends on what type of gun you fire, a sniper rifle for example is capable of a kill from more than a mile away, it will take about 3 seconds for the bullet to hit the target.

 

Why would the type of gun effect it?

[daytripping]

Why would the type of gun effect it?

 

Ballistic range v gravity.

[dave_min]

Ballistic range v gravity.

 

Gravity is a constant.

 

I'm no crazed murderer, but don't Snipers have a longer range as they fire the bullet at a much higher speed?

[daytripping]

Gravity is a constant.

 

I'm no crazed murderer, but don't Snipers have a longer range as they fire the bullet at a much higher speed?

 

To be perfectly honest I'm just making it up as I go along, I have no idea about guns.

[dave_min]

To be perfectly honest I'm just making it up as I go along, I have no idea about guns.

 

[daytripping]

[terenceandphilip]

I remember my physics teacher at school telling me if you shot a monkey in a tree, and the monkey let go of the branch of the tree the same time you fired, it would still get shot (owing to what you just pointed out)

 

 

How did you end up in the states in the first place? Quite like your story about quitting work and your wife is a uni prof.

[Bluto10]

I remember my physics teacher at school telling me if you shot a monkey in a tree, and the monkey let go of the branch of the tree the same time you fired, it would still get shot (owing to what you just pointed out)

 

 

How did you end up in the states in the first place? Quite like your story about quitting work and your wife is a uni prof.

 

my physiocs lecturer told me 4 years worth of stuff. just a shame i was too busy to attend 90% of the time.

[The Hulk]

You've over-simplified this scenario to an unrealistic level.

 

This would only be true if you were to drop/fire this bullet in a vacumn.

Surely in a vacuum the bullet would never drop to the floor. Zero friction, zero gravity, perpetual motion.

[Bluto10]

Surely in a vacuum the bullet would never drop to the floor. Zero friction, zero gravity, perpetual motion.

 

youre wasting your time hulk min.

daytrippings a knowledgable well read man but david_min is thick as pigshit

[dave_min]

Surely in a vacuum the bullet would never drop to the floor. Zero friction, zero gravity, perpetual motion.

 

You'd still have gravity in a vacumn.

[buchanskii]

If it was perfectly horizontal then it would be the same as dropping it, due to acceleration of gravity ~9.81 m/s being constant. (If you neglect loads of variables, wind speed etc..)

 

I read a book a week, so ...

[Bluto10]

I read a book a week, so ...

 

[dave_min]

If it was perfectly horizontal then it would be the same as dropping it, due to acceleration of gravity ~9.81 m/s being constant. (If you neglect loads of variables, wind speed etc..)

 

I read a book a week, so ...

 

This is not true.

[The Boofon]

 

This is not true.

As good as on planet Earth but yes completely variable throughout the Solar System and beyond.

 

For the experiment planet Earth would logistically be the best place to conduct the experiment. Above water not in it.

[dave_min]

As good as on planet Earth but yes completely variable throughout the Solar System and beyond.

 

For the experiment planet Earth would logistically be the best place to conduct the experiment. Above water not in it.

 

True.

 

I just wanted to throw out that Acceleration due to Gravity isn't a constant.

 

If we are to try the experiment though, can 'bluto' be shot?

[The Boofon]

I'd like to see that experiment take place Dave min min.

[Bluto10]

I'd like to see that experiment take place Dave min min.

 

ill take it. as long as you do too.

the world would be a sadder place without me but i doubt anyone would give a fuck about you.

ill take one for the team cause thats just the kinda guy i am

[Bluto10]

If we are to try the experiment though, can 'bluto' be shot?

 

get out of this topic you thick piece of shit. youve nae clue what your on about.

[The Boofon]

 

ill take it. as long as you do too.

the world would be a sadder place without me but i doubt anyone would give a fuck about you.

ill take one for the team cause thats just the kinda guy i am

Nae bother. You go first you fat lonely sad waste of space.