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Is it possible to shoot a bullet around the world?
Thus, no matter your gun, you’re not shooting a bullet around the Earth. A bigger projectile can go further. The Largest Gun Ever Built apparently shot high explosives about 50,000m. This gives us some hope!
Can a bullet be shot into orbit?
Fires can’t burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns can shoot. Modern ammunition contains its own oxidizer, a chemical that will trigger the explosion of gunpowder, and thus the firing of a bullet, wherever you are in the universe. No atmospheric oxygen required.
How fast can a bullet travel around the Earth?
An average bullet travels at around 2736 Kilometers/hour or 1700 miles/hour. That’s 6 times faster than the top speed of the fastest car in the world. Many bullets travel faster than the speed of sound. Bullets are 3 times faster than the commercial jet aircraft at about 400–500 knots.
Would a bullet escape the moons gravity?
With so little friction, it can maintain its speed longer than the Earth bullet can. The moon’s escape velocity is about 2.38 km/s, but a bullet typically travels at only about 1 km/s.
Will a bullet Fire on the Moon?
Yes, you can fire a gun on the Moon, despite the absence of oxygen. Despite the abundance of oxygen on Earth, however, most gun ammunition comes with its own oxidizer “built in”, so to speak. The result is that a gun can fire even in the absence of oxygen, such as on the Moon.
Which is faster lightning or a bullet?
That is faster than a bullet fired from an assault rifle- 1000 metres per second. A natural disaster poses serious risks to your life, liberty and limb.
Can you shoot a bullet around the Earth?
(A quick search showed 1000 m/s would be very high for a real rifle muzzle velocity.) Thus, no matter your gun, you’re not shooting a bullet around the Earth. A bigger projectile can go further. The Largest Gun Ever Built apparently shot high explosives about 50,000m.
What would happen if we made a longer bullet?
With a longer bullet, maybe we can shoot into orbit, go once around the Earth, and come back to hit you in the head, since apparently you’re into that. Let’s lengthen our bullet by an order of magnitude and fill it with uranium to up the density, bringing our theoretical range up to 100 km. We’ll encase it in diamond, which won’t melt until 4000C.
What color is the Earth when a bullet hits it?
Earth is blue. The bullet exits the atmosphere at the green dot, continues clockwise around the dotted path, and re-enters the atmosphere at the red dot. After that, it falls back through the atmosphere to hit us on the back of our head.
Why can’t you shoot a bullet through the air?
The reason is the atmosphere. Air resistance on a fast-moving bullet is huge, and if you shoot the bullet faster, the air will just push on it harder, stopping it in the same distance. To see this, consider the simple model of a bullet moving in one dimension through air of constant density with no gravity.