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inahandbasket ([personal profile] inahandbasket) wrote 2007-06-11 05:02 pm (UTC)

the issue's actually air friction. Escape velocity from earth's surface is roughly 7 miles per second, which is how fast the projectile would have to be moving when it left the barrel of the gun.
Dat's a lotta air friction. ^_^

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