Timeline for Can you shoot someone with a bullet... from orbit?
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| Jul 25, 2015 at 21:32 | comment | added | Vectornaut | @Samuel, the video linked from Green's answer (worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/21230/7957) has a lovely illustration of what happens when you "just drop it," and what you have to do instead. ^_^ | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 21:54 | comment | added | Christopher King | @Samuel Maybe he has a magical velocity stoppifier. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 21:35 | comment | added | Samuel | Oh, I don't doubt that thing would reach a terminal velocity capable of killing a human with ease, just not driving through their body and into the ground. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 21:32 | comment | added | chasly - supports Monica | Haha! - I forgot the bit about being in orbit! You must admit however that if someone threw that thing at you from across the living room it would hurt a heck of a lot. If it was falling at terminal velocity and landed straight on your head I don't think you'd survive. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 19:54 | comment | added | Samuel | Drop it? That's not going to work, it'll just continue to orbit right next to you. There is also no way you're going to drive that thing meters into the ground, even fired from a gun point blank. | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 19:52 | history | edited | chasly - supports Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 19:46 | history | answered | chasly - supports Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |