Firing a bullet straight up

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

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

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

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

3.2 kilometers for people who use metric system

in mythbusters this was busted myth

So much effort went into creating this video except actual research

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.

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

it will just ricochet off the dome protecting flat earth.

Whats with the cheery music?

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

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

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

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

I love this channel, It always gets straight to the point.

Do it with a mortar

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

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.”

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