Meanwhile in Syria

Mer5eywhite

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The usual Allahu Akhbar chant as morons fire bullets into the air in celebration.
Fact:Bullets fired into the air are more lethal if they hit you than those aimed horizontally. People die from this every year.


www.bbc.co.uk

Moment former president's statue toppled in Hama

Rebels say they have taken full control of a second major city, after the military withdrew its troops.
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Certainly, makes it difficult for the west this. They probably need to tacitly support Russia in this but can’t be seen to. Awkward.
 
Terrorists are Rebels if theyre on the side of what the West wants, amazing eh?
 
raefil said:
Terrorists are Rebels if theyre on the side of what the West wants, amazing eh?
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I don’t understand how the west can possibly want this. After the Arab Spring etc they must see that power vacuums plus religious extremism = TROUBLE.
 
Once the regime falls this will just end up in one big blood bath between the different religious factions. Also read before that if Assad falls than Israel will invade to create a buffer zone.
 
So here we have it, the British media cheerleading HTS (Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham)

www.theguardian.com

‘We’ve seen this before’: residents of rebel-held Aleppo fear regime onslaught

Syria’s second largest city braces for possibility of president Bashar al-Assad revisiting brutal tactics used in civil war
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Yet without much digging it can be quickly found that HTS is a proscribed organisation here in the UK

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www.gov.uk

Proscribed terrorist groups or organisations

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under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act it is illegal to state an opinion that supports, or may lead somebody else to support, a proscribed organisation. Indeed there have been sevaral supporters of the Palestinian cause that have been arrested under this act for supposedly supporting Hamas or Hezbollah.

Yet we have a leading British media outlet expressing its complete support for what is effectively Al Qaida.
 
Mer5eywhite said:
The usual Allahu Akhbar chant as morons fire bullets into the air in celebration.
Fact:Bullets fired into the air are more lethal if they hit you than those aimed horizontally. People die from this every year.


www.bbc.co.uk

Moment former president's statue toppled in Hama

Rebels say they have taken full control of a second major city, after the military withdrew its troops.
www.bbc.co.uk

Certainly, makes it difficult for the west this. They probably need to tacitly support Russia in this but can’t be seen to. Awkward.
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Some fella named Newton taught us that a bullet will land in the top of your skull with the same velocity that it left the gun.
 
pnewortham said:
Some fella named Newton taught us that a bullet will land in the top of your skull with the same velocity that it left the gun.
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Well, yes, if you’re having your battle (or “celebration”) in a vacuum 😁

Surely a bullet fired many hundreds of metres into the air and falling back to Earth would be slowed by far more air resistance than one fired horizontally directly at you. A falling bullet would reach terminal velocity and I think it would be a small fraction of
the speed it left the gun.
It’s gonna hurt if it hits you on the top of your head though!
 
Regardless said:
Well, yes, if you’re having your battle (or “celebration”) in a vacuum 😁

Surely a bullet fired many hundreds of metres into the air and falling back to Earth would be slowed by far more air resistance than one fired horizontally directly at you. A falling bullet would reach terminal velocity and I think it would be a small fraction of
the speed it left the gun.
It’s gonna hurt if it hits you on the top of your head though!
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When asked "excuse me, what time does this train stop at Oxford?", Einstein replied "do you mean what time does Oxford stop at this train?"
 
From New Scientist:
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In September this year, there was a report of 17 deaths and 41 injuries in Kabul, Afghanistan, following gunfire celebrations after the Taliban claimed to have captured the Panjshir valley.


An individual’s chance of being hit by a falling bullet is small, but if hit, the likelihood of being killed is up to five times greater, at 32 per cent, than it is from a direct gunshot. This is because injury typically occurs to the head and shoulders rather than to less critical body parts.’
 


It’s strange how all foreign wars now appear to play out on the streets of London.

Plus, their celebrations suggest that Syria will now be safe for them to return to right?
 
Mer5eywhite said:
From New Scientist:
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In September this year, there was a report of 17 deaths and 41 injuries in Kabul, Afghanistan, following gunfire celebrations after the Taliban claimed to have captured the Panjshir valley.


An individual’s chance of being hit by a falling bullet is small, but if hit, the likelihood of being killed is up to five times greater, at 32 per cent, than it is from a direct gunshot. This is because injury typically occurs to the head and shoulders rather than to less critical body parts.’
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Have seen a few interviews with refugees in camps in Turkey looking forward to returning home - on the other hand, interviews with Syrian Christians very worried about the future and who will seize control. A very uncertain future - will we see a peaceful transition, control seized by Islamists, or a civil war among the many factions like Libya? What Erdogan will do is another question - he is playing his own games.
 
pnewortham said:
Some fella named Newton taught us that a bullet will land in the top of your skull with the same velocity that it left the gun.
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Regardless said:
Well, yes, if you’re having your battle (or “celebration”) in a vacuum 😁

Surely a bullet fired many hundreds of metres into the air and falling back to Earth would be slowed by far more air resistance than one fired horizontally directly at you. A falling bullet would reach terminal velocity and I think it would be a small fraction of
the speed it left the gun.
It’s gonna hurt if it hits you on the top of your head though!
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From the 'Arthur Murray School of Physics'...

F = G(m1m2)/R2.

Simples really.
 
Sid Snot said:
From the 'Arthur Murray School of Physics'...

F = G(m1m2)/R2.

Simples really.
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Beautiful Physics, Sid, I can imagine you taught Newton everything you know 🥰

You're spot on about the gravitational force equation between the bullet and the earth, but if the bullet is fired at 3,000 km/h, travels upwards until 0 km/h, then as Prof Reg mentioned the air resistance means it would only ever achieve around 500 km/h on its way down.

(Even slower if it hits an albatross or a migrating chiffchaff)

Still plenty enough to kill though.
 
Sid Snot said:
I said to him, in conversation, as you do, 'be careful whst you say, for every action there's an equal and opposite reaction'. Next thing I know, it's his third law of motion, go figure.
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You should have brought it up with him sooner - you could have been his first law.
 
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