Yeah, so then there was this meme, which raises the question of whether a bullet triggered in space would fire.

Guessing not, because the vacuum would pull oxygen from the cartridge such that the propellant wouldn't spark.

Not saying I need to try it out or anything, just speculating.

Here's the mildest possible expression of impatience with herd immunity freeriders.

Crid: no.

The oxidizer in gunpowder is chemically bound. No part of the reaction depends on gaseous oxygen.

Your chemistry teacher is weeping.

Your forefathers have disowned you. Your church congregation quivers with shame when your name is spoken; your camp counselors drop their chins in silence at the memory of your outings.

Not saying I need to try it out or anything, just speculating. ~ Crid at August 11, 2021 12:26 AM

Fascinating picture and speculation on fire in space - especially considering the recent close call the ISS had with a Russian research module misfire.

The Beeb answers the question for us, "Yes. Bullets carry their own oxidising agent in the explosive of the cartridge (which is sealed, anyway) so there’s no need for atmospheric oxygen to ignite the propellant."

This is the part I found fascinating: "Once shot, the bullet will keep going forever, as the universe is expanding at a faster rate than the bullet will travel."

If I was shooting guns in the vacuum of space, I'd also worry about Newton's Third Law on opposite and equal reactions. If you fire a gun in the vacuum of space, the recoil would send you tumbling in the opposite direction with no air friction or gravity to slow you down.

I was reading something the other day about firearms factual accuracy in movies and the author pointed out that guns will fire underwater, but the range is severely diminished, praising John Wick for showing Keanu Reeves maintain a three foot distance to avoid being shot in a scene with underwater gun firing.

Of course, all of this assumes the gun is a modern one with a sealed cartridge and not an older one with the propellant exposed to the elements.

More on that underwater gun firing.

Aw, crap.

Conan, it's worse than you're shown, because not all the energy of combustion goes to propel a bullet -- when it leaves, you are now holding a solid rocket motor as barrel blowdown occurs.

A few moments' introspection reveals that perceptible recoil effects on an Earthbound shooter occur after the bullet has left - and it will tell you why.

Consider: bullet acceleration produces the moment of {bullet weight x distance travelled} before it leaves the bore; this results in recoil by {rifle weight x distance rifle travels} in the other direction. The rifle, by itself, typically weighs ~500 or more times bullet weight. Bullet departure happens in a few milliseconds; then barrel blowdown of several cubic feet of gases, starting at ~55,000 psig, happens over the next hundred or so. Muzzle brakes actually reduce recoil by working on altering the direction of this blowdown.

The Russians actually sent a cannon into space.

Another consideration you should realize on the chemistry front is that the same cartridge case can be loaded with different weights and types of propellant. Powder manufacturers make several different compositions because combustion pressure drastically changes burn rate.

There's LOTS of literature out about this, because weapons are carefully studied.

AND ALSO

> Your chemistry teacher is weeping.

Your biology teacher is preparing a lawsuit, and your statistics prof is meeting with that same attorney next Tuesday. And if you didn't get your doctor's approval before skipping the vaccine.....

Vampire frogs yo:

https://twitter.com/MaeneSigne/status/1425354462294642690

Heeey, is this the James Bond movie where Daniel Craig is turned into a bumbling idiot so that his Mary Sue diversity hire replacement shines:

https://twitter.com/WeaponizedRage/status/1425177067864395783

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> the James Bond movie where
> Daniel Craig is turned into
> a bumbling idiot

Well fortunately, a whole planet's worth of film enthusiasts just can't wait to get back into a theater of rowdy teenagers shouting tiktok url's to their friends sitting seven rows back to enhance the cinematic engagement of those sitting around them. Plus popcorn at $11.70 a quart cooked in stabilized oil that's been sitting in the back since October 2019, that most ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ (😉) of months. I mean, what else would those filmgoers want to do on a weekend… Stay home and watch whatever the F they want on the enormous 4K screens they bought with their stimulus checks??? Of course not!

I've *lived* the dream in Hollywood, Babe, so let me lay some Tinseltown insider truth on you over lunch at Geoffrey's…

(Not really… my work is always for showbiz-symbiotic trash teevee; Essentially, gleaners if not abject entertainment parasites. Nonetheless…)

I would encourage you to read the financial history of an enchanting little feature named Waterworld, the most expensive movie ever at its time of production. Specifically, five years after the sale of Universal by MCA to Matsushita, the Japanese conglomerate was preparing to transfer the property to a (presumably idiot) scion of Seagram. This complex transaction involved a quadrozillion dollars, the pride of three nations, and some of the most devious minds in Hollywood, which is really saying something. The best considerations I've ever heard suggest that Costner and his co-producers were encouraged to spend as much as they possibly could on their probable turkey, because there are times in the movie business when liabilities on a balance sheet can bring good outcomes to particular players. To the cunning in their best positions, assets and liabilities are the same thing, depending only upon who's holding them. Today.

Someone somewhere will live really, really well because of "No Time to Die," even if you and I don't rent the VHS.

@Crid,

In other words, this:

https://tenor.com/view/wash-money-cool-rich-gif-15800452

Stranger danger:

https://twitter.com/patrickbasedmn/status/1425461662073581570

Which one of you still hides money inside a bra:

https://twitter.com/HateAnt/status/1424128761642065920

" not an older one with the propellant exposed to the elements."

So someone's goal to be the first person to commit murder with a percussion pistol both underwater and in orbit is actually unachievable?

Asking for a friend.

Yep, Gog, I’m afraid that would be a no go. And I’m afraid flintlocks, wheel locks, and matchlocks are out, too. And probably some early cartridge weapons as well.

I saw that "ethnic aisle" article.

I didn't go over every detail. I WILL say that I go to those aisles, and they tend to save me time in the supermarket, for multiple reasons.

"And if you didn't get your doctor's approval before skipping the vaccine....."

You're not vaccinated against Delta and Lambda.

Criminal.

I WILL say that I go to those aisles, and they tend to save me time in the supermarket, for multiple reasons. ~ lenona at August 11, 2021 6:34 PM

True, but I think I get what the author is trying to say (PW:DR). Italian food is not on the "ethnic" aisle, but Indian, Asian, and Hispanic are. That is, except in stores in areas predominantly populated by those groups. There, those foods are just food.

Having an ethnic or international aisle does make it easier to find specialty sauces and spices, certain foods, and other harder-to-find items without having to go to a specialty store.

Sometimes, that is. My local grocery stores carry only the basics of "ethnic" foods. If I want anything beyond soy sauce or hoisin sauce, it's off to the Asian food store I go.

And good luck if you want any ethnic food item beyond Asian, Indian, and Hispanic in your local grocery chain store.

I WILL say that I go to those aisles, and they tend to save me time in the supermarket, for multiple reasons. ~ lenona at August 11, 2021 6:34 PM

True, but I think I get what the author is trying to say (PW:DR). Italian food is not on the "ethnic" aisle, but Indian, Asian, and Hispanic are. That is, except in stores in areas predominantly populated by those groups. There, those foods are just food.

Having an ethnic or international aisle does make it easier to find specialty sauces and spices, certain foods, and other harder-to-find items without having to go to a specialty store.

Sometimes, that is. My local grocery stores carry only the basics of "ethnic" foods. If I want anything beyond soy sauce or hoisin sauce, it's off to the Asian food store I go.

And good luck if you want any ethnic food item beyond Asian, Indian, and Hispanic in your local grocery chain store.

True, but I think I get what the author is trying to say (PW:DR). Italian food is not on the "ethnic" aisle, but Indian, Asian, and Hispanic are.
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Interesting. Reminds me of how Italians are seen as white, but Hispanics, often, are not.

In the meantime, I've seen Caribbean produce, at least, at DeMoula's (aka Market Basket). Plantains and yams, for starters. With regard to that cuisine - or African cuisine - I wouldn't know what to look for, outside of produce.

> You're not vaccinated against
> Delta and Lambda.

Have you ever talked to an epidemiologist about this?… Or have you merely read a lot of inflammatory web pages in the last year?

Your demeanor conveys an absence of eye contact with those who know better. You smirk with needful timber about "Delta" and "Lambda" as if you've had a series of grad or even undergrad bio classes, when it's blindingly obvious you've never cracked a textbook in your life.

Did you ever talk to your doctor about it?

Did you ever talk to your doctor?

Children die, and it flatters your shallowest, undercooked ego.

I just don't like you

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