{"id":11084,"date":"2012-02-23T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2012-02-23T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T08:00:48","slug":"in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-go-kerpow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11084","title":{"rendered":"In Space, No-One Can Hear You Go &quot;Kerpow!&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/happen-shot-gun-space-144210543.html\">What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Newton&#8217;s third law dictates that the force exerted on the bullet will impart an equal and opposite force on the gun, and, because you&#8217;re holding the gun, you. With very few intergalactic atoms against which to brace yourself, you&#8217;ll start moving backward (not that you\u2019d have any way of knowing). If the bullet leaves the gun barrel at 1,000 meters per second, you \u2014 because you&#8217;re much more massive than it is \u2014 will head the other way at only a few centimeters per second.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the gun was not lined up with your center-of-mass, you would also feel a torque and begin rotating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space? Newton&#8217;s third law dictates that the force exerted on the bullet will impart an equal and opposite force on the gun, and, because you&#8217;re holding the gun, you. With very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}