If you shot a bullet in a spaceship.............................

[sparklygothkat]

would it float away??
Am watching Armageddon and one of the men pulls a gun on the crew, but i am sure that the bullet would float away, rather than meeting its target..

hmm not sure - perhaps because of the speed it could meet it's target????

mmmmmmm I just can't work it out lol

Oi, SGK, have emailed you.

I reckon it would meet target as it is travelling so fast. (albeit in reduced gravity)

have emailed you back

OK, off to look now!

A speck of dust can pierce the outer shell of a spaceshuttle - if it is going fast enough (IIRC).

Theoretically, without gravity, the bullet would go as fast, over a much further distance (infinitely really if no gravitational pull is involved).

Something to do with velocity, gravity and distance? (lord, physics O level was a LONG time ago...)

(So, yes, it would injure - more likely to I would think).

The blood spurt from the injury would probably float around though....

In zero gravity the bullet would keep going in the direction that it was fired until it hit something. On Earth it would travel in direction it was fired but also fall towards the ground pulled by gravity.

The person firing the gun would probably have to brace himself against something or he would be propelled backwards by the recoil (every action having an equal and opposite reaction and all that).

well there you go, I was wrong lol I knew you lot would know

So in zero gravity, if you push something it will go forever???? [gormless emoticon]

these are the times when we need MB.

Yes peachy.

Deceleration is something caused by opposing forces/friction. Gravity is a force. If there is no opposing force then there is no reason for it to slow down and eventually stop.

I'm not explaining it well, but if you think about how it feels to walk normally, and then walk in the water at a swimming pool?

Or, how you can push off on ice skates on grass and go nowhere, and push off on ice and go on for quite a while....less friction....