09-25-2009, 11:47 AM
This thread has been totally hijacked. Why don't you physics fans start a new thread where the finer points of angular momentum, strike penetrations, and spin trajectories can be argued ad infinitum?
The basic point here is that gunfire, never mind rapid repeating gunfire, is against the law, unsafe, and completely inappropriate in HPP or any other inhabited place. I don't care if some of you are convinced that people being killed by falling bullets is urban legend. We don't want to find out in a real world lab experiment here in HPP. This is frightening stuff, especially to those who were near it. If you hear gunfire, call the cops immediately.
To answer Devany's question, modern automatic weapons fire so rapidly that the sound is often blurred or buzzy. I'm guessing that what was heard in this instance was a rapidly fired semi-automatic, which can fire as quickly as the trigger can be pulled and is dangerous as hell in these circumstances.
The basic point here is that gunfire, never mind rapid repeating gunfire, is against the law, unsafe, and completely inappropriate in HPP or any other inhabited place. I don't care if some of you are convinced that people being killed by falling bullets is urban legend. We don't want to find out in a real world lab experiment here in HPP. This is frightening stuff, especially to those who were near it. If you hear gunfire, call the cops immediately.
To answer Devany's question, modern automatic weapons fire so rapidly that the sound is often blurred or buzzy. I'm guessing that what was heard in this instance was a rapidly fired semi-automatic, which can fire as quickly as the trigger can be pulled and is dangerous as hell in these circumstances.