Fire a gun on the Moon: with no air, nothing slows the bullet down. Could it fly all the way around and hit you in the back?
To circle the Moon you need about 1.7 km/s. A rifle bullet does about 1 km/s and falls short; the fastest tank rounds (~1.75 km/s) just clear that line and would come back around in about 2 hours.
Sources: NASA (Moon Fact Sheet, LRO LOLA, GRAIL) · Rheinmetall Rh-120 L/55 (DM53)
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“AR-15 style rifle” by SpatialNeglect (jeandiz) —
“Leopard 2 A6” by buh (buh-late) —
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Two hours face down in the dust… or would you just step aside? 🌕👇
Without air resistance how does the Sabot round separate from the enclosing after leaving the barrel?
You don't need to stay down for two hours, you just need to get down for a couple of minutes 1 hour and 47 minutes from now.
no oxygen for the gunpowder to create an explosion
There is no oxygen on the moon and you can't fire a gun
We need to try this
Its right behind me isn’t it, ahh😭😭😭
polyester pitch -10 0.5x speed
2 hours is enough time to move away from the spot that you have fired that tank round from 😂 But I could see some people staying down for 2 hours 😂
or just change places
And no sound of a shot cause no air
Thanks for instruction or I would have been dead with my tank on the moon 🤝🙏
In Aldnoah Zero, a mecha anime, one of the protags did this exact trickshot around the orbit of the earth, timing the exact moment and place his victim had to be to destroy them
That was kinda sick not gonna lie
First thing Americans would do on the moon base:
Stuffing tanks in the rocket🥀
For all mankind reference?
I don't fire with tank again sorry 😭
No but then it’ll come around again!
Don’t try this at home
I’ll keep this in mind next time I’m firing a tank on the moon
we can get bullets to 1700 meters a second. just wouldn't be like 5.56
Can we not give Donald dum ideas please?