Physicist braves underwater bullet for science

[JeremyK]

That reminds me.

I watched a sci-fi show last night that said ''Remember. Guns don't work in space''.
Supposedly because there is no oxygen?
And I have heard this before in different shows and movies.

I thought ''How stupid! This must be some liberal fantasy''! Powder has all it needs to explode and do it's job.[Kinda like rocket engines] If anything. Guns shot in space never stop working!

Just as the [thicker than air] water slowed the bullet in this video. The vacuum of space should allow it to go down range unimpeded at it's highest velocity. Until acted on buy another force?

Next time I here this ''guns in space thing'' from someone. I will ask them why they fire under water so well?

Wasn't Firefly, was it?

 

[P7M13]

Physicist, eh? If I were that guy's professor, I'd rescind his PhD. He could have calculated that in high school physics.

My pet peeve about space sci-fi movies is the inaccuracies with respect to pressure and the lack of friction. When the space suit depressurizes, in real life, the people would explode, in a most violent form of the bends.

 

[Medic!]

Wasn't Firefly, was it?

I think it was this new show ''The Expanse''.

But I've heard it on others also. Maybe ''Firefly'' was one of them.

I'm a sucker for any and all Sci-fi.