Bullet falling down
Could a bullet fired upwards and then falling down kill you? I doubt it, but does someone know?
shareFrom Mythbusters Episode 50, entitled "Bullets Fired Up"...
In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact. However, if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time.
(from mythbustersresults.com)
So, to answer your question... It could kill you.
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It happens a load of time in the middle east when they fire into the air,its well documentated that there has been scores of injuries and deaths after large crowd events and the gunmen fire dozens of live rounds up into the air
shareThis happened in America once that I know of. Some gangbangers firing up in the air in South Central on New Years Eve and some girl got a moonroof in her head a few blocks away.
shareA friend of mine and myself put a marble in a paint ball gun once. This was at the beginning of spring, and the ground was still frozen (I live on top of Norway). We stood tight together and I fired the marble (which fit the barrel perfectly, we had to search for one that fit so well so no air would get by it, or as little as possible), and when we couldn't see it anymore, we ran away not wanting to get hit.
When we heard it hit the ground, we searched for it all over the lawn and eventually found it. It was so far down we had to dig it up, around 8-10". I'm pretty sure I would have died had I gotten it in the head on the way down :P
A marble is round though, and heavier than a bullet (this one was at least), and has less friction (most likely, since its round, doesn't have to travel in one particular direction to fly easily through air), so it probably fell faster having both less friction and heavier (needing more friction to get slowed down due to weight), so it probably fell faster than a bullet that had traveled to the same height (a bullet would probably have traveled higher though).
Not really the same thing though :P
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Dziga Vertov:
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Everything falls at the same speed, doesn't it? Test it with a basketball and tennis ball, 10 ft or 1000 ft, they'll land at the same time if you just let them fall. I don't think weight or friction has anything to do with it.
Short video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mCC-68LyZM
Everything is pulled towards the ground at the same speed, yes, but weight, shape and size matters. That's why a feather doesn't fall as fast as cannon ball here, but in a vacuum they do (like the video from the Moon shows).
So weight doesn't affect the pull towards earth, but it matters towards battling wind resistance. The same for shape. A round object will have less wind resistance compared to a paper sheet.
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Dziga Vertov:
I am the machine that reveals the world to you, as only I alone am able to see it