• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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OldBuzzard

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If a bullet is fired from a high enough altitude, will it slow down to terminal velocity due to air resistance? Or will it pick up speed due to gravity? This is above my pay grade.
 
If a bullet is fired from a high enough altitude, will it slow down to terminal velocity due to air resistance? Or will it pick up speed due to gravity? This is above my pay grade.
If it is fired up, wouldn’t the force of gravity be applied in the opposite direction?
 
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