Firing a bullet straight up

What happens when you fire a gun straight into the air? The short answer is: nothing good. Here’s what could happen, according to science.
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[@cvxhdgfdhdgh9936]

I like how this video has such cheerful music when someone could die

[@gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805]

someone could die from watching a video? I know you like your Netflix and all, but geez

[@grantkarlorabec3719]

Gordon Freeman The Semen Demon such a dumbass

[@gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805]

It was sarcasm ;__;

[@PopeRobXXIII]

Huh. Neither bad nor boujee.

[@workingonanames]

That'd be the best suicide for me

[@johnan3398]

“That bullet can *injure* or even *kill* someone” Music: 🌸 🌈 🎻 🎶

[@epicluigi122]

Where did you get the word “and” from?

[@johnan3398]

@@epicluigi122 My bad it was a typo

[@epicluigi122]

@@johnan3398 na you’re fine

[@someguyfromarcticfreezer6854]

If it was perfect 90 degree with no wind, bullet back as little bit of lead that dropped from 150 feet, it will lost kinetic energy to kill a person.

[@toonsketch8064]

😂

[@callummark8710]

3.2 kilometers for people who use metric system

[@pizzasub3194]

Sarah Mark Just use the tool on google. Like inches to centimeters.

callum mark Thank you

[@theemojimovie1025]

callum mark thank you

[@talesandlore]

no no no. no one uses that

[@alext9558]

people who use metric system don't use guns at home usually :p

[@checkmyplaylist6879]

I always do this in Minecraft but with a bow and arrow

[@makunl8996]

Tried eggs and snowball?

[@ShadowRaptor42]

Me too

[@texan_gun4hire455]

I always do it irl. Because I live in Texas

[@allinonemaster6480]

I do it with Trident

[@theuselessteammate2097]

Everybody felt that

[@TooHarshForYou]

This video : bullet would travel at a speed of 400mph at its decent Terminal velocity :Am I a joke to you?

[@RajinderSingh-rl1by]

Bad joke

[@tslmiami6288]

Right? 88ft/ sec....

[@Cincy32]

This video is idiotic.

[@TheNaxzor]

200mph is more likely

[@hankfrank2436]

Whatever it is its still very fast and dangerous upon descent , I know firsthand from a very close call ,

[@Saltiumine]

it will just ricochet off the dome protecting flat earth.

[@LilLeanCuisine]

Eneido bwahaha

[@MrInstantRamen]

earth isnt flat

[@caderamsey8878]

Eneido haha.....please tell me your joking.

[@310iq6]

Wtf you're so stupid the earth isn't flat it's a cube.

[@ratchethoe]

no man it's a fukin cylinder get ur facts rite!

[@lrh411]

400 mph huh? Did you just make this up or... ?

[@GiulioImparato]

i thought the same, i mean i know there's lead in bullets but air resistence is gonna kick in much before that speed with so little mass to counteract

[@lorenzmuller4000]

Giulio Imparato mass doesnt matter. The only thing that does matter is air resistence and the aerodynamics of a bullet are pretty good.

[@noahhill9184]

Mass does actually play a pretty important role in air resistance, due to inertia.

[@edwincar8890]

What inertia?

[@amrei9336]

Edwin Car inertia is newton's first law

[@Dannybythebanana]

everyone in the comments complaining about how an actual bullet will fall yet nobody brought out the fact that it said '-0' in the video

[@iloverssomutch]

Sometimes for computational purposes, it may be necessary to consider signed zeros, that is, treating +0 and −0 as two different numbers. One may think of this a capturing the different divergent behaviour of 1/x as x→0 from the left and from the right. Since they were doing a computer simulation of the trajectory of a bullet, we can only really blame them for sloppy editing.

[@jake1173]

Dannybythebanana The comment I saw below this said minus zero lol

[@carolemeyer2477]

same here

[@Sultan-bm7ey]

Dannybythebanana lol no such thing as negative zero

[@massir7769]

DanBoy I noticed too lol

[@virakchhang]

So much effort went into creating this video except actual research

[@astrovan14]

how do you know that?

[@zm1786]

@@astrovan14 terminal velocity is always the same

[@kudostothewiz2703]

@@zm1786 The popular scientists on the TV show, Mythbusters experimented with the premise that “Bullets fired into the air maintain their lethal capability when they eventually fall back down.” They found that a bullet fired straight up (an almost impossible achievement for a human), will tumble on its return trip and falls at a slower rate due to terminal velocity. In addition, they found that a bullet in this circumstance is therefore less lethal on impact. However, they also discovered that a bullet fired at a non-vertical angle will be able to maintain its speed enough to be very destructive on impact. In determining if the myth was ‘Busted’, ‘Plausible’ or ‘Confirmed’, they proposed that this myth would receive all three ratings at the same time.

[@DowntownSound1]

@@kudostothewiz2703 --Friend, - I DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU STAND OUTSIDE on 4th of July . after lots of idiots fire bullets up in the air. THE bullets falling down wont tickle you.

[@crystallizedsyrup7594]

@@kudostothewiz2703 You know what's funnier? look at the source

[@Nathan-jh1ho]

Please retake physics 101. The bullet won't be stabilized as it falls back, therefore the air resistance will have a much more substantial impact on the bullet, causing it never to reach leathal velocity. Unless it's a super heavy bullet, slugs or shell.

[@ftlight2362]

in mythbusters this was busted myth

[@AbsoluteKelvin]

Yup just more misinformation from Tech Insider. Written by the uneducated.

[@hotdaddychula4203]

What were the results

[@Fleecast]

shrek

[@Matthew-gl8fv]

Actually the myth got all 3. Busted Plausible, and confirmed. Also it depends on the gun and the ammunition that is fired

[@lokoh7191]

Here I am I have the same exact thing in my mind

[@reruan3722]

Do it with a mortar

[@44km62]

yup

[@kaviyapriyakirubanethy2302]

Maybe that's how mortars were invented ...just randomly shoot into the sky and hope it hits something

[@kilometers529]

kaviyapriya Kirubanethy shit you might be right

[@dr.snowman4883]

No no no, they use mircoscopes to shoot the mortar.

[@d.b5471]

Nah man, u gotta use that burst fire javelin

[@itsyaboitime7897]

I’m scared to go outside now

[@TiddyTwyster]

Millenials

[@anthonypaul5654]

If you hear a gunshot,go indoors,it's that simple

[@yahyamuhaimin3268]

But don't forget to go to School,

[@medicanmannato]

@@anthonypaul5654 being in the business of shooting folks pluse being shot back at I can tell you that almost 99% of the time if you hear the gun shots your ok the people that dont hear the shots are typically the ones that get hit. Most rifle and some hand gun rounds travle over the sound barrier, so the bullet will hit its target before the sound of the shot is heard. You still want to drop and take cover but hearing the pops off in the distance is better than hearing the wistling and cracking sound the bullets make as they fly past your head or hit the ground around you or hit you.

[@Relco12]

medican man5.56 7.62 nato we’re talking about shooting it up idiot plus yeah civilians usually get guns that break the sound barrier

[@h1nkle]

Whats with the cheery music?

[@winstonmccurley9953]

It made the whole thing more entertaining 😂

[@h1nkle]

Holy shit I came back across this video and this comment caught me off guard because I don’t remember watching it 😂

[@kimmer6]

Typical 1960's TV soundtrack for black and white broadcast.

[@JerryC25]

Kounter lol

[@mellochello921]

Because it's always sunny in philadelphia

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

I always have this preconceptions in my head but it's certainly interesting to see people argue otherwise. While the concept of bullet tumble increasing aerodynamic drag and therefore lowering the terminal velocity has merit, I find people who argue that it's that low because the terminal velocity of every object being the same irrespective of their drag coefficient baffling.

[@DickShooter]

Wait what? I speak perfect English and can't figure out exactly what you're saying. Do people believe "terminal velocity" has a speed limit for all objects or; that drag coefficient has no relevance in terminal velocity?

[@AnakinSkyobiliviator]

@@DickShooter If I recall correctly, a lot of the comments I read at the time suggest that all objects share the same terminal velocity.

[@DickShooter]

@@AnakinSkyobiliviator that's frightening.

[@mr.potter4622]

Simply not true. As an Aerospace engineer who graduated at Oxford university and has been to space for 4 months via hallucinations you’re wrong.

[@irwinyanez3040]

i like how the background music is all happy

[@theamazingrobin927]

Lmfao a bullet hits a terminal velocity in excess of 400mph?? Pffffffffffffft

[@mynameisgladiator1933]

This video is produced by Bill Nye, the Idiot Fake Science Guy.

[@ibrahimabdulqadir3794]

Global warming was invented by china.

[@gkv633]

If it is properly curved and very dense like made of lead then air resistance would be far less but still 640kmph is too much i think...but mostly it will hit straight in the head and that is why even 200 kmph bullet is fatal.

[@zach7161]

Ibrahim Abdul Qadir, global warming is natural

[@budgetspiderman4634]

George R Brand depends what caliber the bullet and the gun it's fired from

[@BoldrepublicRadioShow]

Sorry guys you missed something HUGE -- As the bullet slows it starts to tumble. As it starts to fall - between its own tumbling and the wind it begins to tumble - twist - and corkscrew down - That takes a lot of the momentum away. A bullet is far more dangerous when it is fired up in the air at a slight arch.

[@mic7337]

But then it stabilizes and starts to fall straight...

[@metallampman]

someone that knows what he is talking about

[@rustteze]

​@@metallampmannah Just someone throwing words that they don't know just to not deny their old beliefs, just like you

[@TheRandomBrothersBP]

My mom has a cousin who got shot in the head from a bullet falling from the sky on new year's eve and unfortunately died

[@your_average_cultured_dude]

r/thathappened r/quityourbullshit

[@sumuqh]

If you fire a bullet straight in the air.. An airdrop will come.

[@thenotorious2.029]

Is This Pubg 😳

[@MinSky_]

And if u shot it down..u only can cry

[@huckleberry8079]

400mph is bullshit. Terminal velocity is much slower than that like around 140mph.

[@GaiaPrime1643]

For a human, it's 120. Terminal V. varies object to object

[@huckleberry8079]

Mythbusters have already proven without a shadow of a doubt that a falling bullet can't kill you. This video is still bullshit misinformation and lies.

[@peacebewu]

Well, where I'm from, there have been people who were hit in the head and died because of bullets falling(at an angle though, not straight up).

[@huckleberry8079]

Are you from Mars? "at an angle" is not a falling bullet. Now you're just lying. Were you standing beside the person this happened to? What caliber was the bullet? Why lie to try to add weight to your story? What you are saying is simply impossible. Sort of like the penny and the empire state building story, it's simply false. Prove what you say. No one has ever died from a "falling' bullet.

[@yirenchen6384]

In all technicalities all bullets are "falling" as gravity is always pulling them down.

[@MyKeyz]

I call BS on that 400mph a bullet is way too light to be able to get to speeds like this only due to gravitation

[@AbsoluteKelvin]

Correct, the bullet can't reach that kind of speed with its terminal velocity.

[@antimatter2417]

doesn't depend on the mass of the bullet at all. It's about the air penetration coefficient, which is obviously very high for bullets

[@MyKeyz]

Anti Matter No, your point is correct but what or rather how you said it is wrong

[@antimatter2417]

What do you mean? My point?

[@MyKeyz]

Anti Matter The part where you said that the mass of the bullet is irrelevant is false although you are right that the important part is the air penetration coefficient.

[@mahdmenu757]

0:46 "-0." Edit: Why does this have so many likes? XD.

[@Cheesemongle]

-0.0000000001 rounded is -0.

[@mikepanag4469]

ToedSix48 -0=0

[@raphaelthorp5997]

It's there to show that it was rounded from a negative

[@sambrown1849]

Negative Zero is Infinity.

[@Cheesemongle]

no it isn't

[@davem5333]

The maximum or terminal velocity a bullet will attain falling from its peak altitude depends greatly the shape of the bullet. A rifle bullet with it higher ballistic coefficient will attain a higher velocity than a pistol bullet. A rifle bullet in the .270 to .30 caliber range seems to have the best long range potential. But in any case firing a bullet vertically is a bad idea and dangerous.

[@Mechanized85]

celebratory gunfire are also really such of idiot and reckless ever see.

[@sam-zf7xd]

I love how the speed of the bullet going up is 40 mph and then going down it's 400 but a 9 mm first say goes at least 900mph

[@juliopinon2527]

not even a falcon can dive 400 mph

[@daxtro5492]

molok melok he meant when it stops moving at the top of it's Arc and starts falling

[@juliopinon2527]

+molok melok DIVE

[@juliopinon2527]

+1673601 but it is a dead body falling from the sky the falcon is a live body and more aerodynamic than a bullet rotating as it fall

[@giannistefanoli6612]

1673601 You dumbshits, there's something called terminal speed that's caused due to the air resistance. A bullet would never reach its original speed if it's fired with a 90 degrees angle. A bullet's size is too small, and gravity itself couldn't make it put up with the mentioned resistance. So, a part of the kinetic energy would be greatly lost. A falcon is what you would call "aerodynamic", its terminal speed if it begun descending at the same height with the bullet, is going to be greater straightaway. The bigger the object, the more acceleration it can get advantage of.

[@huckleberry8079]

Julio Pinon not cant. that's more more bs news

[@baconman6975]

Aw man I shot my nerf gun bullet in the air now ima go to jail 😢😢😨😵

[@fathanfajri9417]

Great, im happy.

[@bob1412]

that one bruh quick hind I’ll try and help

[@PovidisII]

well, nerf guns are soft bullets so shooting upwards are safe..

[@LS-jk3fk]

@@PovidisII /r/woooosh

[@tjstayfurious_8623]

Free you‼️‼️

[@ztek0r924]

soooooo the arabian wedding when they fire lots o bullets for celebration is...... killin peeps? :l

[@mouhammed2004]

not only arabic

[@CloroxBleach-pt7xl]

RocketzGaming haha thanks, I appreciate it just try to hit that like button whenever you see me :)

[@abdalrahmanabualzait4881]

of corse .. in jordan that happened a lot actually

[@joyachacra748]

RocketzGaming in lebanon once a leader died and it turned to a warfare where everyone took an ak and emptied 10 rounds in the air, but we were lucky no one got injuried

[@youssefabid2962]

most Arabs don't do that

[@fermainjackson2899]

Of course it's a terrible idea. I was expecting an explanation with Projectile Motion Formulas.....

[@IN_FINITY]

nerd

[@mocuishle3519]

I just came up that if a person drop a metal block from a high floor of any skyscrapers or high apartments in big cities, it could cause someone’s serious injury. People can do this so easily, and it’s hard to supervise this now.

[@kigbahuna7075]

Trickshot

[@jaybrd6k]

😂

[@mariobadia4553]

Jordan Is Epix NO SCOPE!

[@crowbar3]

You got me xD

[@BlazedBob]

Nice picture

[@zerownl876]

Is that swaggersouls

[@oodo6148]

and then there's the movies where policemen shoot warning shots in the air.

[@jfan3049]

Nice

[@phantomaticsam9654]

Oodo onKipa thats because they tilted to the front a little lol

[@ryank1273]

And Titanic.

[@what-xd8vy]

Oodo onKipa what movie

[@ayushk025]

This

[@AK-uo8cm]

I've been thinking about this my whole life. When I was small I used to think that it goes to the sun and the sun burns the bullet so it doesn't come back down, thank you for putting a video about it.

[@BH1TV]

Same

[@anakinskinwalker1724]

I thought it went so far, it got caught in outer space atmosphere, and there'd be a bunch of shrapnel and spare bullets everywhere in space

[@gustavoamador4549]

I used to think they land on the moon like the rockets do , and that was the reason the moon had holes.

[@johnjingleheimersmith9259]

They covered this one very well in an episode of the “Mythbusters”. If fired straight up, the bullets come back down at their terminal velocity which is going to be somewhere in the 150 feet per second neighborhood. That is not fast enough to do any significant damage, unless you are talking about bullets far larger than any ‘normal’ rifle or pistol fires. The very deadly problem is, if you fire with the barrel at something less than directly vertical. Fired at say, 45 degrees above the horizon, the bullet can maintain much of its muzzle velocity (initially anywhere from 1000 fps to 4000 fps) and end up half a mile or more away coming in at a 20 or 30 degree angle while retaining more than enough velocity to be lethal. That is why,in most places, it is illegal to fire a gun in the air. It is also very very dangerous. That is also why one of the main rules of gun safety is “Know your target AND what is behind it before you shoot.”

[@enmanuelmartinez709]

If someone drops a wedding ring from a sky scraper it would open a crater in the earth's crust..lol...stupid, silly people. Think people, think!

[@enmanuelmartinez709]

You are right...people's power of deduction astound me

[@captainjacksparrow1518]

Ironically - Soilders at funerals: Shoot bullets into the air.

[@Tankcrewman1907]

They are blanks.

[@BobbyPlane6252]

FAKE NEWS! gravitational pull is 9.8m/s^2. No way it would fall 400mph

[@get2vivek]

BobbyPlane6252 Gravitational acceleration is 9.8 m/s^2. The bullet will accelerate at that rate till it hits terminal velocity. Terminal velocity is a function of air density, mass, and the surface area of the bullet.

[@ericpabst1208]

BobbyPlane6252 to be exact 9.81m/s^2

[@ericpabst1208]

NEDNED whoops yea true

[@abdulmoid6143]

BobbyPlane6252 how is acceleration due to gravity being 9.8ms-2 the reason? If you do a calculation using 2as=v^2 taking s as about 3000m you'll get a final velocity whose equivalent in miles per second is greater than 400. Yes, accounting for air resistance, the bullet would stop accelerating at terminal velocity and would reach maybe half that speed or less, but why are you trying to act smart by quoting the value of Earth's acceleration due to gravity when it does nothing to disprove the video?

[@jjmj4971]

Abdul Moid the terminal velocity of of a bullet is 205mph. He needed to use air resistance work it out.

[@scrapingbottom3966]

Imagine going to a military funeral, then they fire the guns, but they forget to use blanks, and a bunch of birds just fall out of the sky...

[@MagnumForce51]

If the bullet was shot straight up, it would lose most of it's ballistic qualities and falling at terminal velocity isn't going to be enough to really kill anyone. Keep in mind these bullets when fired are normally going at mach 1+ speeds (depending on the caliber). However with celabertory gun fire and what not, people don't always shoot them straight up but at a angle. If the bullet doesn't slow completely down at the top of it's arc but retains more of that in horizontal movement, it could still be traveling faster then terminal velocity when it returns to the ground. I think it's those that are what causes injuries. A bullet probably doesn't weigh much more then like 5 or 10 pennies (though I may be grossly over estimating the weight. Especially for hand gun calibers perhaps) and we already know the myth about a penny being dropped off the empire state building being able to hurt anyone. The mythbusters quashed that one long ago. :P . A small piece of metal falling at terminal velocity probably won't do much damage either. Especially if it starts tumbling which would occur if it was shot straight up. If it was shot through a rifled barrel it may fall with the pointed end remaining pointed up if it has enough rotational energy left in it. That would increase air resistance and slow it down further. :P

[@dajaharris7380]

ApacheThunder it really depend it can kill someone if u lose a lot of blood.

[@Zeldamaster45321]

ApacheThunder How does something travel faster than terminal velocity?

[@MagnumForce51]

If it's still going faster then terminal velocity when it started falling. However if it did slow down, then no it would not go faster then terminal velocity as that is impossible. It would have to have some form of external source of energy to accelerate it faster then what gravity of the Earth provides and we all know most bullets don't have little rocket engines attached to them. :P In fact air resistance means that most objects don't actually reach terminal velocity most of the time due to drag. Bullets may get closer to that if they are still on a ballestic trajectory and more so if they are still rotating (that only applies if the gun had a rifled barrel though). If the bullet had started tumbling air drag is higher so it would slow down more. True terminal velocity isn't reached unless the object is falling in a vacuum. So the bullet had to have made it into space. :P (and it would slow down once it hit the atmosphere anyways. :P )

[@sambbrooks]

I definitely can and has killed people before

[@goku445]

ApacheThunder You only talk out of your ass don't you? People have died from falling bullets.

[@SwiftlyEditing]

Conservation of energy: mgh = (1/2)mv^2 Masses cancel so gh = (1/2)v^2 g = 9.8m/s^2 and h = 2 miles (according to video) = 3218.69m (9.8)(3218.69) = (1/2)(v^2) (2)(9.8)(3218.69) = (v^2) v = 177.6 m/s neglecting air resistance

[@malikrameez2650]

Now i will cover my head with helmet whenever i go outside

[@juan8593]

Wouldn't the bullet reach terminal velocity? NVM thanks Huckleberry

[@eugeneworrell1883]

Your Average Android Guy bullets are extremely aerodynamic and have a much higher terminal velocity

[@Slyworm613]

Eugene Worrell unless after it gets to the peak, it starts tumbling. Mythbusters did a while episode on it

[@capitalistsmashingswjguy2936]

Dorian D. No need for insults

[@matthewchastain136]

Yeah there "400" mph on the fall is bullshit just go watch the mythbusters clip on it.

[@matthew-tq7fj]

The 400 isn't bullshit. The 400 is if the bullet falls without tumbling on the descent.

[@mrkazal2004]

They say "What goes up must come down"

[@matek1324]

not in some cases :)

[@Bat-talk]

Lol

[@miniena7774]

What about age?

[@obaidurrehman7842]

What about helium balloons?? I lost it ;c

[@hayleyy_.j]

World Of Beats they can come down when they run out of helium

[@rogernevez5187]

0:50 400 MPH during the descent !?!?!?!?!? I doubt that !!!!!!

[@7mbmasihbelajar]

Then prove it

[@SirMatthew]

Nameless ...terminal velocity

[@anglicky69]

exactly what i thought. it doesn't weigh nearly enough!

[@Unregistered.Hypercam.2.]

@@7mbmasihbelajar watch mythbusters episode on this

[@benorzell9485]

a@@anglicky69 velocity among all objects shot with the same force is a constant variable. weight will not contribute to the speed of an object. if you dropped an orange and a watermelon off the Empire State Building, both would reach the ground at the same time. just pure physics! gotta love it

[@Chief_Bill]

In my country, a few months ago, a child younger than 11 years old I think, died from a stray bullet that hit his head. Like, this bs needs to stop

[@raphiell8435]

Cheerful Music, Simple Animation, Explaining about how someone could die. 10/10

[@AnxietyWar]

How can the bullet achieve a downward speed of 400 MPH when terminal velocity is 122 MPH? Theoretically it could achieve 400 MPH but the altitude would have to be much higher than a 2 mile straight drop. Having more of an arc in the parabola would make the bullet descend faster but if we're talking firing a bullet straight up, there's no way it would descend at 400 MPH.

[@aksiiska9470]

what does terminal mean? i thought how about the initial speed. the theorem of energy conservation or conversion says without air friction, the return speed will be the same as the initial speed

[@whimsical2223]

why did anxiety war comment on this?

[@whimsical2223]

@@aksiiska9470 also there is air resistance here.

[@khanzie]

I don’t have any experience with calculating terminal velocity of a bullet but it looks to be about 5 mph.

[@whimsical2223]

@@khanzie depends on the mass of the bullet. But also the intinal speed is acting agaisnt by external factors like gravity air resistance etc.

[@brennonfriemann]

Something I noticed was that as it was falling the terminal velocity wasn’t taken into consideration. It’s the maximum speed an object can go without something acting on it. Which is why if you drop a penny off of the Eiffel Tower it won’t cause seriously damage. Because the object doesn’t that much it can’t fall that fast. But it’s still a cool and interesting video.

[@zacktomczak4962]

That is exactly what I was thinking..how can an object lose all of its kinetic energy & then exceed terminal velocity ??..🤔 I don't know about you but I think I smell 🐃💩

[@theturtlethebanjo195]

@@zacktomczak4962 right, this video was more than likely made by anti-gun folks .

[@fizzinsoda]

​@@zacktomczak4962ok but bullets were designed to go faster then normal terminal velocity, idk about you but I smell a 🤡

[@MegaOscarmendez]

@@fizzinsodalmao you actually think that? What a moron

[@strategygaming5830]

@@fizzinsoda and what makes them go above terminal velocity? 🤡🤡🤡 maybe the EXPLOSION and barrel of the gun not gravity.

[@callumbrowne2081]

Best trickshot in call of duty history

[@vlxne383]

Callum Browne HAAAAAAAAAA 🤣😂😁😅😄😆🙂😄😅🤣😂😂😂

[@jugernautshaw9338]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😊🤣😊🤣😊🤣😊🤣😊🤣😊

[@ccmireonthebeat4473]

Correct me if i'm wrong but, the bullet would not travel any faster than Terminal Velocity (around 120mph i think) while falling back to earth. Just like any other object.

[@RohitKumar-vi3zt]

0:51 Wrong Calculation Tech Insider: Let's do a quick maths( I am assuming there is no wind or resistance to stop the bullet) Initial Velocity, u= 0 m/s Height, h= 2 mile = 3.21 km = 3210 m Acceleration due to gravity, g = 9.8 m/s^2 Final velocity, v = ? Formula: v^2= u^2 + 2as ( u^2 = u * u, i.e example:- 3^2 = 3*3 =9) Putting above values in formula, we get: v^2= 0^2 + 2 * 9.8 * 3210 v^2 = 62, 916 v= 250.8 m /s Hence , Final velocity of the bullet will be 250.8 m/s not 400 m/s.

[@kanesgames7474]

You mean 250.8 m/s not 400 miles per hour

[@atjthe2nd]

I did this with my dad's compound bow when I was in high school. My dads bow had about a 75lbs pull weight so I was able to barely get it back. So I shot a practice arrow straight up in the air and only until after the release, I could not see where the arrow went! and let alone where it was going to land! So I ran about 200ft from where I was standing and after about 15-20 seconds, I hear a thump! The arrow happily landed 10 ft away from where I shot it. So shooting an arrow straight up is also a very very dumb trick. Words of wisdom, "Don't do it"

[@johnmiller7220]

Amos J. words of "wisdom" Ha!

[@spldrong]

Arrow and a bullet are very different. Shooting straight up with a gun would cause no one any harm.

[@Alen725]

Arrow can stabilize itself during flight and weights more.

[@koopspook]

I'd definitely be scared of an arrow being shot straight up. A bullet shot straight up is like a small round rock, an arrow is razor sharp missile

[@muhammadarifbillah984]

That is not wisdom, it's called common sense

[@DingleDut]

"Comes back down to earth." It doesn't even leave earth.

[@atumra4125]

I Killed The Legend27 technically, "earth" is only the ground.

[@DingleDut]

Jed37 Nevo37 Why didn't he say that? I'm sure it has been a common misconception for the viewers. I have always thought "Earth" means planet. After all, most people do.

[@vortexgames8548]

Jed37 Nevo37 so when I jump im in space... right

[@DingleDut]

abc zyx Lol.

[@thunderhead786]

At least the music is on point. Wonder whats the name of the song.

[@qashmaljabbar9288]

me too, anyone?

[@rafiirmdhn]

Bradley Fasco just leaving a comment

[@foxtrotfelix9086]

Bradley Fasco almost couldn't concentrate on the vid coz of the music lol

[@thunderhead786]

Foxtrot Felix lol

[@animemusic9277]

darude sandstorm

[@losimkimrey6531]

400mph? What do they think? That this a kindergarten kids show now?

[@supratim17roy]

There is no correlation between the firing speed and the falling speed. Suppose the bullet reaches a height of 2 km = 2000 m. Then the max speed attained by it before it hits the ground is V = √(2.g.S) = √ (2 * 9.8 * 2000) = √ 39200 = 197 m/s = 709km/h = 440 mph (neglecting air resistance and projectile fall)

[@esf9827]

R.i.p in pasta sauce Guy Manderson

[@alexmonamochamuch2652]

But we launch explosives into the air that then explode and send small fireballs everywhere.

[@yourface3154]

Pio Soesetio LOL

[@Cheesemongle]

"ash harms you *directly* " I want to kill myself

[@workingonanames]

It burns in the air I believe if it goes high enough like usual

[@aleksi4621]

Dat recoil!!

[@spiritwicc3953]

He got a good grip mod

[@fathanfajri9417]

animation, anything is possible

[@ianedwards1255]

theres no way if it hits 0mph its coming down at 400mph

[@jimsagubigula7337]

Have you ever heard of free fall?

[@VanillaLimeCoke]

I remember back in fall 2004 our evening computer teacher said that Boston is going to be crazy if they win the World Series flipping over cars and such. Someone had mentioned just after winning their 3rd game of the series, some rowdy fan fired a gun into the air. The bullet flew 2 blocks over and hit an 8 year old girl in the head.

[@Kal-0000]

I checked the date... Its not an april fools joke

[@Cheesemongle]

I bet you were an April fools joke

[@corruptedfortune7571]

Laneer bruh why do you have such problems he just said something ugh 😑

[@corruptedfortune7571]

Laneer Wow ok thank you

[@Quilled]

0:47 it says -0 for a split second

[@gomez3357]

That’s not even possible

[@sethparrow04]

I’m surprised they didn’t mention the Coriolis affect.

[@blendedplanet]

I've known of a couple cases of a guy shooting his gun up in the air and the bullets hurting those around him.

[@swamihernandez5408]

Bro, then switch to blanks instead of FMJs.

[@muhammadmustafa2684]

*PLEASE* but why it travel 400mph-1 infect gravity just pulling it with9.8ms-1 and what about air friction which reduce it at the same time😑😑😑

[@rileydevan9626]

What about the terminal velocity?

[@wrenchaholic]

then why is a penny from the empire state building not dangerous?

[@Cheesemongle]

because the penny has greater air resistance and is not as pointed as the bullet, which might I add, is made for harm?

[@gothemcloud]

Copper is less dense than say.. lead.

[@Hairyniggaballs-g8i]

And, you know, the Empire State Building is not 2 miles high

[@henryyu4694]

bullets ARE SOOOOOOO MUCH HEAVIER THAN A PENNY

[@matthewchastain136]

Because bullets aren't either. If you drop a bullet from the Empire State Building it wouldn't kill anyone either and it is plenty high to reach terminal velocity. A free falling bullet will be tumbling like crazy and loses all its aerodynamic properties causing it to fall relatively slow. People who died from "falling" bullets where hit by rounds fired at angles so they still had energy from the shot and where not truly free falling like they would if shot straight up. Go watch the mythbusters clip on the topic and you will see there 400 mph number for falling bullets is bullshit.

[@KBOSGroundAgent]

So the bullet travels faster than terminal velocity? Can you give an explanation?

[@Vinnay94]

So what if you shoot at a 45 Degree angle? Would the bullet maintain spin or would it eventually tumble? Kinda scary because you could be in your room and a stray bullet hits you.

[@AnimMouse]

Using imperial units is the one that kills.

[@zorex.]

fucking americans with their guns and miles lmao

[@andreiachim7730]

And pounds

[@GewelReal]

Well guns are cool

[@johnnytran2107]

Make me think of Middle East firing gun in the air,none of them died

[@asifkhannoorzai]

A teenage girl died in my area and she got hit in the head by a stray bullet. Was really sad seeing the parents crying for their eldest daughter.

[@mouhammed2004]

today a syrian girl was killed in this way

[@CloroxBleach-pt7xl]

EXTRA THICC many died, genius.

[@millerrepin4452]

If they were firing EXTRA THICC bullets then people would die

[@404killer]

None of this shit is true, absolutely no sources.

[@44563error]

yesterday in Athens a bit 11 years old lost his life from a bulet that has shout in the air an fall down to his head RIP

[@testing2741]

how the hell do you the bullet was shot straight up? seems a lot more likely someone taller than him simply fired a gun negligently in a direction other than straight up.

[@loganfoster9464]

Cough... cough... bull shit

[@tabularasa9576]

Nikos Kipriotis rip

[@tabularasa9576]

Logan Foster it is true u bloody idiot

[@Asome3333e1]

well, are you talking about .45 ACP, 7.62 x39, .223 remington, or 50BMG?

[@potatomatop9326]

If you fire a gun into the air, Superman will die.

[@sgwryan8904]

Finally, something that I've been wondering since I was 4 is awnserd!

[@danemiller4852]

They did a terrible job answering it too. Lol there is no science behind this. If you want the real answer look at the Mythbusters episode of this exact thing.

[@richcarp3538]

There were 911 likes on this video Now I ruined it Muahahaha

[@spacechimp3199]

“wHy DoN’t CoPs FiRe A wArNiNg ShOt”

[@RedForeman]

So how long does it typically take for it to come back down AFTER being fired . ?

[@recondrone6826]

question...the bullet is spinning very fast when it leaves the rifled barrel so does it really topple over point first or does it remain pointed into the sky as it falls due to gyroscopic momentum... I don't think the video took that into consideration...

[@neelsharma3]

Terminal velocity for human is 120mph wtf 400 for a bullet

[@dragonites55]

Wrong, a human can speed up by doing a nosedive, 122 mph is for the classic skydive fall. (They are still incorrect about the bullet though).

[@alexx781]

@@dragonites55 No offense but you sound exactly like Dwight from The Office 😂😂

[@dragonites55]

@@alexx781 i am pretty sure i was talking to another comment, but it was deleted making me look like a smart ass.

[@kanesgames7474]

In a nosedive a human can travel up to 330 mph

[@raouhl180]

Me when I was 6 and played cod for the first time

[@arjunmpadd1136]

In our country India When Any important people dies Police fire to sky vertically

[@sandspar]

You also freak out when women go into temples, yet you have a space program and nuclear weapons. Sad, because the vision is there. Don't let a few screw it up for everybody else, like we do in the US.

[@SimienHill]

They more than likely are using blanks. Which is just gunpowder firing without an actual bullet

[@chriscarey1806]

If i throw a bullet out of a plane will it hit the ground before me? How fast do you max out when you jump out of a plane? Just curious?

[@NicolasRamirez12417]

*hears plane parts coming down from the sky*

[@do6861]

So you're saying that to be safe just wear a military helmet everywhere.....

[@TheBlaze4000]

Realistically only in America or at an Arab wedding (from what I've read).

[@esco5593]

In Chicago* and at an Arab wedding

[@DanLvK]

use water guns its good for your health

[@ryank1273]

But is it energized with high voltage electricity?

[@PahEz]

"It can still exceed 400 mph" Lmao :DDDDD Max like 30 mph cause the bullet is so small... It just can't reach speed like that on earth, It's impossible :d

[@FighterMan9836]

more than 30 less than 170. it’s not just the size my guy you gotta keep in mind the weight and the density.

[@Untieabl]

If you die by a stray bullet shot from miles away straight into the air. I call that natural selection my friend.

[@scottmartini9083]

First off the bullet does not come down tip first if shot at verticle, it comes down base first. This slows the bullet down due to drag.

[@patrickfoday5866]

Video starts at 1:33

[@Rudenbehr]

AVOID THIS COMMENT SECTION. STAY IN SCHOOL GODDAMNIT.

[@ming-zhiwang8409]

swallowing stones? anyone?

[@SPBurglarBarsFences]

They need to broadcast this commercial on national tv

[@gdreyer]

Mythbuster tested it. A bullet fired straight up, in a perfect 90º angle is not lethal.

[@Utsav_Tiwari]

Now,i can die peacfully😂😂

[@biggusdickus5500]

0:48 it's false the bottom of the bullet will stay on the bottom and fall down, the bullet never falls down with the Point down . also A glock like Pistol with a rifle bullet and 400 mph ?? 😂

[@mattiaaiello8268]

Imagine dying from this, lol I can't stop laughing

[@culdlol]

if you fired a bullet straight onto a plain field that goes for miles, would it eventually just stop and plop to the ground?

[@AnimaVestraa]

Im literally thinking about this in New Year’s Eve