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

[Matt Crawford <matt@severian.chi.il.us>]

> Since, for normal bullets, there is no other force acting on them
> they would continue moving in a perfect line towards whatever
> target you fired them at without ever slowing down.

That turns out not to quite be the case.  You've neglected gravity,
magnetic fields (important for any conductive bullet, not just iron)
and the expansion of the universe.

> 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.

Barring any nearby neutron star or other strong magnetic field source.