[actifadepette]

That a bullet fired from a 9mm Sig Sauer P229 would traver nearly 10 million kilometers in 8 years if it wasn't subject to gravity and air resistance and kept going at the original muzzle velocity?
That's 2/3 of the distance between Earth and Sun!

[dmitrynts]

That a bullet fired from a 9mm Sig Sauer P229 would traver nearly 10 million kilometers in 8 years if it wasn't subject to gravity and air resistance and kept going at the original muzzle velocity?
That's 2/3 of the distance between Earth and Sun!

is it? i thought the sun was something like 90 million miles away?!

[actifadepette]

is it? i thought the sun was something like 90 million miles away?!

I got my zeros confused.

[Heclailia]

So rephrase it...

At original muzzle velocity, it would get to the Sun in about 72 years. Still kinda neat.

[sisimelanyk]

It's kinda funny to think that any spacecraft or a satellite would leave in the dust a bullet fired from a rifle. [yes]

Taken no air friction would exist, a V0 of 8.2km/s is needed to shoot an object to orbit the Earth. A typical V0 for a rifle bullet is around 700m/s.