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> isn’t really dangerous beyond a few hundred feet The overwhelming majority of the world lives less than a few dozen feet from their neighbors. Homes tend to
by fludlight 7y ago
> isn’t really dangerous beyond a few hundred feet
The overwhelming majority of the world lives less than a few dozen feet from their neighbors. Homes tend to cluster together even in the middle of nowhere.
Now please, pretty please, stop encouraging people to discharge their firearms into the air.
- dillonmckay 7y agoI would love to see the stats for this claim.
- a1369209993 7y agoYou don't fire at your neighbors. Birdshot fired upward (at a drone) is going to fall back down - after losing it's muzzle velocity to air resistance and gravity - at terminal velocity. The terminal velocity of birdshot isn't fast enough to do damage.
- mwilliaams 7y agoIt sounds like this guy lives in a rural area. Probably a redneck haha
- dang 7y agoPersonal attacks will get you banned here. Regional slurs aren't ok either. Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? We'd appreciate it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mwilliaams 7y agoI meant no disrespect. I’m pretty country myself and I don’t think redneck is derogatory. In fact a lot of country folk are proud to call themselves rednecks. This is evident in popular culture, for example in songs like ‘Redneck Yacht Club’ and ‘Boys ‘Round Here’, two very popular country songs (they’re good; listen to them).
- dang 7y agoUnderstood, and I believe you. The problem is that intent doesn't come across by itself in internet comments. We don't have things like tone of voice or facial expression to make it clear. So if you're going to post something like this, the burden is on you to include enough information to disambiguate intent. "Haha" isn't enough information.
- mwilliaams 7y agoYes, you are right. I think we all run in to this every once in a while.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt's still not a good idea, but they've got a point about birdshot. An ordinary bullet, fired straight up, will come down with enough force to hurt or kill. But each pellet of birdshot is much much lighter, so its terminal velocity is lower. Falling from the sky, it shouldn't do more than sting a bit. (I haven't done the math, but I know the notion that a penny dropped from the Empire State Building is false; a penny's terminal velocity is too low. And birdshot is a lot lighter than a penny.)
- brohee 7y agoA bullet fired straight up will come down in free fall (and tumbling). Certainly not lethal nor very dangerous. Bullets fired on ballistic trajectories can be lethal OTOH, That's even a machine gun doctrine to hit enemies behind cover...