Simon wrote:
> "Simon" <shepshep1@excite.com> wrote in message
> news:oroMe.10865$JB4.9211@newsfe6-win.ntli.net...
> >
> > "Jean-Marc Desperrier" <jmdesp@alussinan.org> wrote in message
> > news:ddst3j$lfa$1@reader1.imaginet.fr...
> >> another fool wrote:
> >>> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>>> John W. wrote:
> >>>> Wonder where the shotgun pellets eventually fell, and at what velocity?
> >>>
> >>> Having been peppered with shotgun pellets more then a few times while
> >>> dove/duck hunting once they start back down they don't have the weight
> >>> to gain enough velocity to hurt anything.  It feels like being hit by
> >>> blowing sand.
> >>
> >> Shotgun pellets, yes. Falling bullets can and will kill or disable.
> >>
> >> I really wondered when seeing the image of Arraft's burial how many
> >> people would be wounded by that. The place was so crowded every falling
> >> bullet would become a hazard, and they were firing everywhere.
> >
> > How much does a bullet weigh? a bullet shot strait up vertically will
> > loose all of its speed before it starts to fall back to earth. The bullet
> > only has gravity to accelerate it, I've read that the terminal velocity of
> > a falling bullet would be around 200 mph. Would a 200 mph bullet kill you?
> >
> This page seems to have the answer.
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/homework/s95523.htm

Sounds reasonable, although the author of that file is best known for
winning the 2002 IgNobel Prize for Interdisciplinary Research for his
studies of human belly button lint, and the influence of belly hair of
the accumulation thereof.