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Is it possible to shoot into outer space ?
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<blockquote data-quote="LRNut" data-source="post: 3049191" data-attributes="member: 3230"><p>It has been a while since I saw "gun writers" say this, but a common explanation for hitting low or high was due to the fact that "Gravity only pulls on a bullet over the horizontal part of flight." Boddington and many others wrote this some years ago. When I was writing about ballistic stuff, I always pointed out if that were true, a bullet fired straight up would end up in space since there is no horizontal component of travel, and thus, no gravitational impact. Absurd.</p><p></p><p>This thinking led to the "Rifleman's Rule" for angled shots, which modern ballistics software such as AB has shown not to be true. How anyone could think the Rifleman's Rule was a perfect mathematical solution is kind of puzzling; a bullet fired at an angle still has to travel through more air than its equivalent horizontal distance. Yes, you hit lower whether up or dowhill, but if hold for the true horizontal distance at long ranges, you will hit low.</p><p></p><p>Speaking of space, I have a friend who is an astronaut. I watched him launch from on the space shuttle Endeavor - it was a night launch (STS-126). I had binos and watched as he sailed out over the Atlantic. I remember thinking it was bizarre that when the shuttle was just a lit up dot in the night sky that it appeared to be sinking lower - then it dawned on me that the earth really is round and he was far enough away to make it look like the shuttle was "falling."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LRNut, post: 3049191, member: 3230"] It has been a while since I saw "gun writers" say this, but a common explanation for hitting low or high was due to the fact that "Gravity only pulls on a bullet over the horizontal part of flight." Boddington and many others wrote this some years ago. When I was writing about ballistic stuff, I always pointed out if that were true, a bullet fired straight up would end up in space since there is no horizontal component of travel, and thus, no gravitational impact. Absurd. This thinking led to the "Rifleman's Rule" for angled shots, which modern ballistics software such as AB has shown not to be true. How anyone could think the Rifleman's Rule was a perfect mathematical solution is kind of puzzling; a bullet fired at an angle still has to travel through more air than its equivalent horizontal distance. Yes, you hit lower whether up or dowhill, but if hold for the true horizontal distance at long ranges, you will hit low. Speaking of space, I have a friend who is an astronaut. I watched him launch from on the space shuttle Endeavor - it was a night launch (STS-126). I had binos and watched as he sailed out over the Atlantic. I remember thinking it was bizarre that when the shuttle was just a lit up dot in the night sky that it appeared to be sinking lower - then it dawned on me that the earth really is round and he was far enough away to make it look like the shuttle was "falling." [/QUOTE]
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