Sunday, July 31, 2016

Mythbuters Sucks: Curving a Bullet Myth

What stupid asshole said you could curve a bullet? If you're stupid and an asshole, it was probably you. What I think is a real shame is that Mythbusters touched this Hollywood bullshit twice! What is the biggest problem with this myth? Aerodynamics. What are the aerodynamic properties of a bullet? Well it's not a boomerang, you fuckertards! It's like a cone or a cylinder with a rounded top. Basically, its a lump of material. It travels in the direction you propel it. Questions?

Load a bullet into a gun and then fire it. How much energy is being imparted on the bullet? The fucking explosion inside the gun put lots of energy into the bullet. It' pushed out a near perfect straight tube. Bullets travel in an arc. Gravity pulls them down as they travel forward. Do you need a picture? We're only dealing with an x and y coordinate, so you shouldn't have any trouble with this one, but jut in case:
What other forces affect the bullet? Air Resistance, Wind, Rock & Roll, and the Power of Friendship!
OK, so the trajectory of a bullet is not perfectly 2 dimensional in reality, but it's close enough, right? Now, what real-world force as opposed to an imaginary force do you suppose it would take to make a bullet TURN on the Z axis and then turn again and continue its flight? Gee, I can't think of one. Let's make one up! We'll call it Dark Force. That's how cosmologists roll! You can also call it The Angelina Jolie Force, Hollywood Magic, or Bullshit. Let's see this force in action!


Now, once you apply Dark Force to a bullet mid-flight, it turns, right? So to make a bullet deviate from it's original trajectory, you have to apply Dark Force to the bullet after its left the gun! But that just makes  it go off in another direction! This shit doesn't seem to work at all, you might say! Not so fast, says I! You can apply Dark Force to the bullet a second time to make it resume it's original trajectory!


And that's what it would take to make a bullet go around an obstacle or a comrade and resume it's original  trajectory! There's no way you can make a bullet do that by waving the gun around as you fire it! Any questions from the ultra-scholars and turbo-geniuses in the Mythbusters audience? I didn't fucking thing so!

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