RE: [HOE] Unity Question... [PEG/SHANE/WHAT THE HECK, EVERYONE!]

[Patrick Gamblin <b7um@unb.ca>]

>===== Original Message From Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org> =====
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>Here's one: How accurate would a gun fired in space be? Normally the spin
>of the bullet stabilizes it in flight. This is because of conservation of
>angular momentum, but I think it's also because of the air currents
>passing over the bullet.

Actually, in space, bullets would not stray from the course you fired them 
onunless they hit something or they were rocket-powered (like a gyrojet 
round). Since, for normal bullets, there is no other force acting on them (the 
rockets or deflecting bodies mentioned above) they would continue moving in a 
perfect line towards whatever target you fired them at without ever slowing 
down.

Of course, the above bit ignores the fact that space isn't really a vaccuum, 
nor is it really 0-G, but it covers anything a PC firing a gun in space at a 
target under a few kilometres/miles away will ever come across.

Marshal Paddy

"As I look back, I see that it had been a mistake to send the letter. If you look far enough back, you will find that everything starts at some minor point. Something small becomes something very big. Something simple becomes complex. A brief moment of time becomes the focus of a tragedy. The letter was the minor point - something of no consequence that became the start of something of... importance." - Paul Thorgrimson, 'River of Blood, Path to Ruin,' October 2001