Recent content by mikeR3975

See, again I think you are making my point. There is the whole transportation part of airplanes. You know, flying goods and people back for forth. Then, there is the military aspect of airplanes. Close air support, combat air patrols, shooting down other aircraft, bombing raids, on...

to phyzguy: I think you are making my point. It is not logical to assume that jetliners cause the WTC attack. There were no calls to ban airliners after the attack. Politicians did not get on the radio and TV and talk about how evil airliners were to our society and how they should be...

Ah, yes, I see your point. I think what my daughter's school is telling her though is that guns kill people. So, in order to refute/educate/or let her see the big picture, I just used the number of guns in the US. From the FBI stats there, only 121 (oops, I subtracted way wrong on this. The...

Thank you. I did the math correctly I think but reported the equation wrong. Do the numbers work out correctly in my comparison to a mile?

I think I've figured a way to look at this. If you take a mile (5280 feet) and convert it to inches, you get 63,360 inches. I then take 63,360 and multiply it by .000007 for an answer of .44 inches. .44 inches breaks down to 11/25ths of an inch. So then an accurate way to explain...

Hi, I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct place or not. I'm having a discussion with one of my high school age daughters about gun violence. We've started this discussion because of the recent shooting in Arizona. I'm trying to explain to her that given the number of guns in the US...

I got that info from a ballistics chart for a 6.8 SPC 110gr V-MAX round.

I have a question that I'm not able to figure out by myself. I shoot a rifle at a steel target. The projectile, when leaving the muzzle, is traveling at 2650 feet per second (fps). At 200 yards, the velocity has slowed to 2208 fps. At 400 yards, the velocity is now at 1811 fps. I...