• switchboard_pete@fedia.io
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    27 days ago

    no because without gravity to pull them back down your bullets would just keep going up and up and over whatever you’re trying to hit

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      26 days ago

      Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired, they go straight out of the barrel, the barrel is just inclined because of the sight alignment. You just realign the sights, this isn’t a difficult problem.

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        26 days ago

        Bullets don’t inherently go up when fired

        yeah because of gravity

        get rid of all the gravity and they’ll go straight up

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          25 days ago

          But actually, if you had no gravity acting to change the velocity vector, the bullet would continue in a straight line. If you shot at the horizon it would be like drawing a straight line tangent to a circle. The bullet’s not going to end up going in the shooters azimuthal direction, but it sure is going to gain altitude as the curvature of the body peels down way away from the straight line it’s flying,

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      26 days ago

      I bet all of them make a loud wooshing noise as they head straight up from the moon to earth.