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Like2Drive said:
When you shoot a gun in the sky, where does the bullet go?
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mythbusters did an episode on this. i think they determined that its harmless if you shoot it upwards, but theres a certain angle where it becomes dangerous, because it still has so much horizontal velocity
 
mcrae said:
mythbusters did an episode on this. i think they determined that its harmless if you shoot it upwards, but theres a certain angle where it becomes dangerous, because it still has so much horizontal velocity
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Yup.

In the case of a bullet fired at a precisely vertical angle (something extremely difficult for a human being to duplicate), the bullet would tumble, lose its spin, and fall at a much slower speed due to terminal velocity and is therefore rendered less than lethal on impact. However, if a bullet is fired upward at a non-vertical angle (a far more probable possibility), it will maintain its spin and will reach a high enough speed to be lethal on impact. Because of this potentiality, firing a gun into the air is illegal in most states, and even in the states that it is legal, it is not recommended by the police. Also the MythBusters were able to identify two people who had been injured by falling bullets, one of them fatally injured. To date, this is the only myth to receive all three ratings at the same time.
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anyone know where i could find a text dump or list of every blurb from resident evil when you search the environments?
like you hit x in front of a shelf and get "nothing of interest here.." etc
 
StuBurns said:
But can't a penny dropped from high kill someone? Why wouldn't a bullet?
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I think they tested the penny myth too. Non-lethal, if memory serves.

Edit: Yep, non-lethal. From the results on Wikipedia:
Firing a penny at terminal velocity (65 miles per hour (105 km/h)) into concrete and asphalt disks and a ballistics gel head with a human skull failed to result in any penetrations, likely because the speed is too low and a penny's mass too small. Even when fired from a rifle, the penny was unable to penetrate concrete or a ballistic gel dummy's skull. Even modifying a rifle to shoot a penny at supersonic speeds failed to cause a penetration. In comparison, a real 6.5mm bullet split the dummy skull. Visiting the Empire State Building, the likely source of the myth, they realize that updrafts and roofs of lower floors would prevent a thrown penny from reaching street level.
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Alright I've been having a problem and I don't know how to fix it. Whenever I try to watch a youtube video, the progress bar doesn't show up. I'm talking about that little gray part that shows how much of the video has loaded already. Whenever I try to replay a video the whole fucking thing refreshes itself so I have to wait for my shitty internet to reload the entire damn video again, even though I have literally just finished watching it. I can't skip forward in videos if they were loaded already nor can I go back a bit because the entire thing start reloading which never finishes and it forces me to refresh the entire fucking page. I turned off the chrome extensions that I have yet this shit still happens. Can anybody please help me?
 
The chain in my toilet water tank broke but not so bad that I have to get a new chain. I was trying to open one the chain links inside the tank, but the whole chain fell into the hole where the water goes into the toilet. I can't find the chain. Does that mean it is in the pipe, and how likely is it that the chain is stuck in the pipe and could be clogged? It was a small thin chain like a thin necklace.
 
Can somebody help me? I'm looking for an interactive flash animation. It features the smallest to largest known objects in the universe, and the user is able to slide a notch at the bottom from left to right to view the objects.

It's been posted on GAF before, but I can't think of the proper search terms...
 
the_log_ride said:
Can somebody help me? I'm looking for an interactive flash animation. It features the smallest to largest known objects in the universe, and the user is able to slide a notch at the bottom from left to right to view the objects.

It's been posted on GAF before, but I can't think of the proper search terms...
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Might this be the one you're looking for?

The Scale of the Universe
 
A year ago i lost a bet against a friend in the collegue, the bet was going to a womens club and only look, i told him OK, BUT I WILL IN ONE YEAR

So next thursday is a year, and he already told me, its time to pay my bet

But im scarred of going to a club, i mean im only 19, never kissed a girl, im too fucking young!!!

And somehow i feel incomfortable, but im a man of my word


Any advices on how is going to a club, what are the tips for not die in there?????


Please help GAF


Edit:Sorry for the bad english (only learned through RPGs)

Im talking about some of those places people visit in the night, inside of that place are girls......
 
SteelAttack said:
Planning in advance for christmas gifts, I'd like to get a tablet for my wife. Which one is the best deal out there?
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Well the HP Touchpads will likely be free by then.
 
Bryan1321 said:
A year ago i lost a bet against a friend in the collegue, the bet was going to a womens club and only look, i told him OK, BUT I WILL IN ONE YEAR

So next thursday is a year, and he already told me, its time to pay my bet

But im scarred of going to a nude club, i mean im only 19, never kissed a girl, im too fucking young!!!

And somehow i feel incomfortable, but im a man of my word


Any advices on how is going to a club, what are the tips for not die in there?????


Please help GAF
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What the hell is a nude club?
 
If every human alive in the world stood side by side in a square like formation, how big of an area would be taken up? Let's say each person takes up on average a 3ft x 3ft square to make it simpler
 
Futureman said:
do you come here more often to post questions or answer questions?
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Neither

Maklershed said:
If you find a ping pong ball laying around, don't put it in your mouth.
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X26 said:
If every human alive in the world stood side by side in a square like formation, how big of an area would be taken up? Let's say each person takes up on average a 3ft x 3ft square to make it simpler
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Any formation, the areal would be 3*7,000,000,000 square feet - 21,000,000,000 square feet or 1 950 square km, or 750 square miles.

As for the length of one side if it were a square - square-root of 7,000,000,000 * 3 = 793,725 feet long. That's 241 km long, or 150 miles.
 
sn00zer said:
In the book the Stand there is a part where they pass through Derry the town in It...at one point a balloon floats out of the sewer does anyone know at what point or what page this happens?
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xelios said:
Are you sure? I don't remember that.
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Searching a digital version of The Stand, I don't find any results for "Derry", and none of the results for balloon seem like that at a glance.
 
33-Hit-Combo said:
Question: Are my electronic appliance cables okay to rest on/near a radiator that never goes above 25 degrees Celsius (room temperature)?
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Yes, perfectly fine.

Bryan1321 said:
Any advices on how is going to a club, what are the tips for not die in there?????

Im talking about some of those places people visit in the night, inside of that place are girls......
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You're talking about a strip club I presume, where women get naked (or almost) and dance? You won't stand out so don't feel nervous. If you're of legal age to go in your country just walk in, take some small bills (money) with you in case you see one you like. ;) There will be other people there doing the same thing; it's not like everyone will be staring at you.

StuBurns said:
What the hell is a nude club?
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Strip club/joint for us native English speakers.
 
Bryan1321 said:
A year ago i lost a bet against a friend in the collegue, the bet was going to a womens club and only look, i told him OK, BUT I WILL IN ONE YEAR

So next thursday is a year, and he already told me, its time to pay my bet

But im scarred of going to a club, i mean im only 19, never kissed a girl, im too fucking young!!!

And somehow i feel incomfortable, but im a man of my word


Any advices on how is going to a club, what are the tips for not die in there?????


Please help GAF


Edit:Sorry for the bad english (only learned through RPGs)

Im talking about some of those places people visit in the night, inside of that place are girls......
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If you're not comfortable going to a place like that, just tell your friend. If he's really your friend and values your friendship, he will understand that you would not like being put in that situation.
 
I'm on Windows 7 Pro x64 and I've installed a new Japanese keyboard and tried setting it both to the Japanese and Microsoft IME Keyboards in the Keyboard Input settings. Neither of them are work properly.

Instead of getting !"#$%&'() for the shift alternates for 123456789 I'm getting !@#$%^&*(

...any ideas? :-/
 
Anyone have the name of any software that allows you to capture an image of a program window with its border transparency intact? I used to have one and it's probably still lying somewhere on my computer but can't remember its name.

Googled and found winsnap and 7capture but I don't believe these are it. Originally found it through Wikipedia as some people used it to capture the windows for shots to use on a program's page.

edit: Found it. Looks like 7capture might be a better way to go through
 
Here's more of a social curiosity question - lets say you go to a movie with one of your male friends. Do you sit with an empty seat in between each other or do you sit right next to each other?

Bryan1321 said:
OK,

Explicit answer?
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Just a joke playing on the fact that some strippers shoot ping pong balls out of their yoo-hoos.
 
Maklershed said:
Here's more of a social curiosity question - lets say you go to a movie with one of your male friends. Do you sit with an empty seat in between each other or do you sit right next to each other?
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Why would you not want to sit next to a friend?
 
Maklershed said:
Here's more of a social curiosity question - lets say you go to a movie with one of your male friends. Do you sit with an empty seat in between each other or do you sit right next to each other?


Just a joke playing on the fact that some strippers shoot ping pong balls out of their yoo-hoos.
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always sit next to them. But we don't have free seating, so if we wanted to do that we'd have to pay for that seat as well.
 
Salazar said:
No joking matter, Maklershed.
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Haha. As a general rule of thumb though I advise against putting ping pong balls that you find into your mouth no matter where you are.

kottila said:
always sit next to them. But we don't have free seating, so if we wanted to do that we'd have to pay for that seat as well.
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You have assigned ticketed seats in the theater? May I ask where you live? Is this outside the US?
 
Maklershed said:
Haha. As a general rule of thumb though I advise against putting ping pong balls that you find into your mouth no matter where you are.


You have assigned ticketed seats in the theater? May I ask where you live? Is this outside the US?
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Norway. I can choose my exact seat when buying tickets online, so I don't have to show up early and go to the stress of finding seats and you know you'll get to sit with your friends.
 
kottila said:
Norway. I can choose my exact seat when buying tickets online, so I don't have to show up early and go to the stress of finding seats and you know you'll get to sit with your friends.
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And this is really the only reasonable way to handle movie-tickets. It makes the whole thing so much easier, and I can take my time and relax, instead of stress about to be two hours early to get good seats on a popular movie. There really is no good argument to not do it like this. Norway ftw.
 
kottila said:
Norway. I can choose my exact seat when buying tickets online, so I don't have to show up early and go to the stress of finding seats and you know you'll get to sit with your friends.
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Ah interesting. I like the idea of that.
 
Grammar question:

If you write something like "I was wondering if you were coming later", is that followed by a question mark or a period? Since it seems like a statement I was thinking period but just wanted to check. I know when speaking something like that you can make it sound like a question or statement so maybe both could be correct.
 
Husker86 said:
Grammar question:

If you write something like "I was wondering if you were coming later", is that followed by a question mark or a period? Since it seems like a statement I was thinking period but just wanted to check. I know when speaking something like that you can make it sound like a question or statement so maybe both could be correct.
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"I was wondering if you were coming later."
"I was wondering: are you coming later?"
 
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