[HN Gopher] Magical Instant Bullets
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       Magical Instant Bullets
        
       Author : baud147258
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-03-20 21:55 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (militaryrealism.blog)
 (TXT) w3m dump (militaryrealism.blog)
        
       | giantrobot wrote:
       | The content was great but the looping animated gifs made actually
       | reading the page nauseating.
        
       | tempestn wrote:
       | Do bullets actually fall at _exactly_ the same speed if dropped
       | or fired horizontally? In a vacuum, obviously they do. But my
       | intuition says there would be some impact on the vertical air
       | resistance from travelling 500m /s in the horizontal direction.
       | As the bullet pushes through the air, the air pressure above and
       | below it is increased (you can actually see that in the photo in
       | the post). So wouldn't it effectively be falling through denser
       | air than in the dropped case? Also, of course, it would be
       | falling in a horizontal orientation, whereas the dropped bullet
       | would probably realign itself to vertical.
       | 
       | Anyway, none of that invalidates the broader point, and the
       | effects would be comparatively tiny even if present. Just found
       | it interesting to consider.
        
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