Happy Independence Day America!

[Noilly Pratt]

:usa: Happy Birthday to all the American forum members. May you celebrate in grand style. :usa:

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[Hal-9000]

I'll make you pay you ungrateful bitches


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[Hal-9000]

Happy Independence Day America :)


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[Hal-9000]

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[beowulf]

wonder where you got that :-k

:dance::dance::dance:

[Noilly Pratt]

All this 'Murica made me think...let's make an Ultimate American mixtape...my picks:

We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
American Woman - Guess Who (even if it's a diss and done by a :canada: band)
American Roulette - Robbie Robertson (another :canada: but he was in The Band so why not)
American Pie - Don McLean
American Girl - Tom Petty
California Dreamin' - Mamas & Papas
California Girls - Beach Boys (NOT Katy Perry!)
California Girl - Chilliwack (yeah, another :canada: group)
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus (to keep the youngin's listening)
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. - John Cougar Mellencamp

Any suggestions? :)

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[Goofy]

All this 'Murica made me think...let's make an Ultimate American mixtape...my picks:

We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
American Woman - Guess Who (even if it's a diss and done by a :canada: band)
American Roulette - Robbie Robertson (another :canada: but he was in The Band so why not)
American Pie - Don McLean
American Girl - Tom Petty
California Dreamin' - Mamas & Papas
California Girls - Beach Boys (NOT Katy Perry!)
California Girl - Chilliwack (yeah, another :canada: group)
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus (to keep the youngin's listening)
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. - John Cougar Mellencamp

Any suggestions? :)

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[Goofy]

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[RBP]

All this 'Murica made me think...let's make an Ultimate American mixtape...my picks:

We're An American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
American Woman - Guess Who (even if it's a diss and done by a :canada: band)
American Roulette - Robbie Robertson (another :canada: but he was in The Band so why not)
American Pie - Don McLean
American Girl - Tom Petty
California Dreamin' - Mamas & Papas
California Girls - Beach Boys (NOT Katy Perry!)
California Girl - Chilliwack (yeah, another :canada: group)
Party in the USA - Miley Cyrus (to keep the youngin's listening)
R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. - John Cougar Mellencamp

Any suggestions? :)

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Lee Greenwood "God bless the USA" has become a July 4th anthem.

[Fodster]

NSFW

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[Noilly Pratt]

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[DemonGeminiX]

Thanks everybody. Yesterday was a good day.

:usa:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

What would be nice is if I didn't have fucking asshole neighbors all throughout the neighborhood that felt the need to set off fireworks 24/7 for 4 days straight. :|

How fucking retarded do you have to be to be amused by fireworks that do the same thing over and over and over and over....

[Goofy]

How fucking retarded do you have to be to be amused by fireworks that do the same thing over and over and over and over....

............ very retarded? :-k

[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[PorkChopSandwiches]

What would be nice is if I didn't have fucking asshole neighbors all throughout the neighborhood that felt the need to set off fireworks 24/7 for 4 days straight. :|

How fucking retarded do you have to be to be amused by fireworks that do the same thing over and over and over and over....

You are more of a grumpy old man then perhapps

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You are more of a grumpy old man then perhapps

Yeah, grumpy old man because I don't see the need to light off firework for 18 hours straight and be doing at at 3 AM :rolleyes:

[Goofy]

I've never bought a single firework in my life, waste of money! They put a big show on in Perth on Guy Fawkes night every year, far superior to any of the crap you can buy in shops! Can't remember the last time i went to it though :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I've never bought a single firework in my life, waste of money! They put a big show on in Perth on Guy Fawkes night every year, far superior to any of the crap you can buy in shops! Can't remember the last time i went to it though :lol:

The problem is here, some states allow the sale of almost any kind of fireworks to anyone. While most fireworks in Colorado are illegal, you can drive 100 miles north to Wyoming where they have very little restrictions on firework sales and you can buy stuff that is pretty close to professional grade. It's ridiculous.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

its a lot more fun to shoot your own though

[Hal-9000]

Fireworks are illegal here so we tend to be like kids hearing the ice cream truck. We all lose our fkn minds and go running over :lol:

[Goofy]

its a lot more fun to shoot your own though

Different strokes for different folks i guess!

[Hal-9000]

its a lot more fun to shoot your own though

on a related note...I read quite a few Americans were asking their neighbors not to shoot off guns this year...apparently people have been hurt :-k

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Most that shit is in the hood, they dont understand that the bullets come back down

[Goofy]

on a related note...I read quite a few Americans were asking their neighbors not to shoot off guns this year...apparently people have been hurt :-k

People don't know that firing guns can result in someone's injury? ........... right enough, firework-head and alligator-man are good examples of this stupidity :lol:

[Goofy]

Most that shit is in the hood, they dont understand that the bullets come back down

Coz of gravity n shit :thumbsup:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Most that shit is in the hood, they dont understand that the bullets come back down

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[Hal-9000]

People don't know that firing guns can result in someone's injury? ........... right enough, firework-head and alligator-man are good examples of this stupidity :lol:

Kev was telling me one year that him and his friends would shoot off guns on New Years, he made a little joke about it.
Then we had a story about someone shooting a semi auto weapon (I think) and the bullets came down 1/4 of a mile away, went through a church roof and killed someone.

it can happen I suppose

[Goofy]

Kev was telling me one year that him and his friends would shoot off guns on New Years, he made a little joke about it.
Then we had a story about someone shooting a semi auto weapon (I think) and the bullets came down 1/4 of a mile away, went through a church roof and killed someone.

it can happen I suppose

Yeah, i've read about it happening right enough......... i wonder how far up a bullet can go when fired and what kind of speed it can reach on it's way back down :-k Obviously gonna vary depending on the calibre etc

[Hal-9000]

Something about the arc/angle it was fired dictates how lethal the bullet can be...I'm sure it can only reach one speed on the return trip down :-k

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah, i've read about it happening right enough......... i wonder how far up a bullet can go when fired and what kind of speed it can reach on it's way back down :-k Obviously gonna vary depending on the calibre etc


Something about the arc/angle it was fired dictates how lethal the bullet can be...I'm sure it can only reach one speed on the return trip down :-k

The Mythbusters did an episode on that

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Everyone from the U.S. military to The Straight Dope's Cecil Adams has probed the lethality of falling bullets. That includes forensic scientists, cardio-thoracic surgeons, and the hosts of the Discovery Channel's Mythbusters—which devoted nearly a whole episode to the matter. And yet, no one has been able to come up with a straightforward answer. The general consensus is that a bullet fired straight up—at precisely 90 degrees to the horizontal—is unlikely to kill a healthy adult when it returns to Earth. That's because, on the way down, air resistance prevents the bullet from returning to its initial velocity. The bullet would deliver a painful wallop but could only have a chance of killing you with a direct hit to the eye, ear, or mouth.

Things aren't likely to be much worse at angles just off the vertical. That said, bullets fired at an upward angle of 45 degrees or less can be far more lethal, since they're likely to hit someone on the ground while traveling at a much greater speed. In this case, gravity isn't directly opposing the bullet's motion, so the projectile stays at a higher velocity throughout its flight path. It's also more likely to maintain its initial, aerodynamically favorable orientation. Bullets fired vertically tend to fall nose-up or sideways, which creates a lot of drag.

Why has this question confounded so many experimenters over the years? (British and German soldiers were firing vertical test shots way back in 1909, and American servicemen did it in World War I.) In part, because it's impossible to calculate the exact minimum velocity required for a bullet to perforate the skin. Based on hundreds of years of shooting at pigs, oxen, and human cadavers—not to mention ballistics gel and other objects—munitions experts estimate that a bullet must be traveling at least 200 feet per second (or 136 miles per hour) in order to break the skin, although one traveling as fast as 330 feet per second (225 mph) might bounce off your body under certain circumstances. The broad range depends on several factors, like how pointy the bullet is and which part of the body it strikes. Skin thickness varies significantly from person to person, and in different places on the same individual. Upper-lip skin is 50 percent thicker than cheek skin, for example. Babies have thin skin, and elderly skin has poor elasticity, which makes it easier to puncture.

Even if you have a good sense of a bullet's minimum lethal velocity, it's still pretty difficult to clock the speed of a round fired in the air. Gunshots can travel as high as 10,000 feet, and the wind takes them in unpredictable directions. Julian Sommerville Hatcher, the U.S. military ordnance expert whose work on this topic is often cited, managed to land only four of his 500 vertically fired bullets in the target range. The Mythbusters crew lost all of its rifle shots.

As a result of these obstacles, the experimental results are mixed. Hatcher calculated that his .30-caliber rifle bullets reached terminal velocity—the speed at which air resistance balances the accelerating force of gravity—at 300 feet per second. You might die from a bullet moving at that speed, but it's unlikely. Lighter bullets, like those fired from a 9mm handgun, max out at even lower speeds, between 150 and 250 feet per second, according to computer models.

All this depends on the bullet's orientation during the fall. In the rare case where a bullet descends nose-first, it picks up more speed. In a 1923 experiment in which soldiers loaded bullets into their shells upside down, the total trip time dropped by as much as 80 percent. Air resistance also decreases at altitude, so falling bullets are more lethal in La Paz than in Amsterdam.

Here's the good news: Bullets fired vertically spend at least 15 seconds in the air, and many hang for well over a minute. So, the next time you're at a party and some drunken lout goes Yosemite Sam, you've got time to grab your drink and take cover.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2011/03/watch_out_for_falling_bullets.html

[Hal-9000]

Yeah the article was posted here (different site name) and it was a semi auto weapon fired at an angle and the bullet dropped through a church roof and killed someone.

I'm sure the story was legit :-k

[Muddy]

We have people complaining that there are ashes and debris all over their boats.. I'm like " Why would you leave your boat out on the 4th" ?

[RBP]

We have people complaining that there are ashes and debris all over their boats.. I'm like " Why would you leave your boat out on the 4th" ?

Everything is everyone else's fault these days. Everything.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

Everything is everyone else's fault these days. Everything.

So, all that crap from illegal use of fireworks on my roof, that were in the bed of my truck, that were littered all over my front and back yards wasn't someone else's fault? good to know :-k

[PorkChopSandwiches]

#GetOffMyLawn

[Fodster]

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