New years eve fireworks!

[h00dlum]

So will you guys buy some fireworks for new years?

I went out and bought this little sucker:

I cant wait to light the fuse :cheese:

 

[15357]

Well, my neighbors called the police the last time I did. :|

So, probably not.

 

[G-Dub]

Probably not, be too wasted to be let near explosives!

 

[The Monkey]

It's hard to get fireworks if you're underage like me. I will probably get hold of some firecrackers though...

 

[ة الأسئلة الشائع]

Last year we went and got some of the fireworks that fly like 50 or 80 feet in the air and set them off and the cops came But we are going to do it again this year (In a diffrent spot)

 

[JellyWorld]

Firecrackers and Fireworks are illegal here.

 

[The Monkey]

Firecrackers and Fireworks are illegal here.

Really? Poor bastards.

 

[Harryz]

Firecrackers and Fireworks are illegal here.

Where do you live?

 

[ة الأسئلة الشائع]

They are illegal here to, I live in Virginia

 

[The Monkey]

Where do you live?

He lives in Singapore.

 

[15357]

It's hard to get fireworks if you're underage like me. I will probably get hold of some firecrackers though...

Here, the store owners don't care. Except alcohol and cigarretes, they will sell glue, BB ARs, butane gas containers, flamethrowers, and ect to 8 year old kids.

 

[ktimekiller]

woohoo korean stores ftw eh 15357?

i miss them good ol guys selling stuff to underage kids T_T

 

[Qonfused]

In Michigan, bottle rockets, etc. of the kind are illegal. We can have anything more than sparklers or those little things you light on the ground and it shoots out sparks. Meh. Go no one really cares. All around my neighborhood, we see huge-ass fireworks going off.

 

[Kangy]

I never saw the point in fireworks myself, seems like watching money explode to me That said, I really enjoy organised fireworks displays, just never saw the point in having my own.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

It's hard to get fireworks if you're underage like me...

LOL Sucks to live there

In Michigan, bottle rockets, etc. of the kind are illegal.

Same in most states. However-

no one really cares...

it doesn't seem to stop anyone and the police only care if it's out of place/a big disturbance and at new years eve it generally isnt

 

[SimonomiS]

I never saw the point in fireworks myself, seems like watching money explode to me That said, I really enjoy organised fireworks displays, just never saw the point in having my own.

QFT. Amazes me the amount of money my friends can spend on fireworks.

 

[gh0st]

wont be buying any myself. my house has a perfect view of this:

so i'm good to go.

 

[JNightshade]

Yeah, I live right near Boston (huuuuuuge fireworks show). I'll probably either go there, or... bah, forget that. Party time!

 

[OvA]

They are illegal here, but no one cares. Hell, people fire guns into the air in our neighborhood

 

[Cormeh]

Last time me and the lads tried to do a little amateur firework display on New Year resulted in a hedge being set alight. Due to the fact the mortar box of nine or so mini rockets wasn't popped into a ditch to secure it.

It was spinning about that garden for ages, spewing rockets everywhere.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

They are illegal here, but no one cares. Hell, people fire guns into the air in our neighborhood

That's stupid and irresponsible. What goes up must come down. They're real loose about lots of stuff here in Arizona but firing into the air, you bet your ass if you get caught you'll be sitting in a jail cell overnight.

All you have to do to get the cops to come out if someone's shooting kinda close to your house is tell the cops they're shooting in the air. Even if they're not you do that so you can get the cops to come out and make them move farther away.

 

[OvA]

That's stupid and irresponsible. What goes up must come down. They're real loose about lots of stuff here in Arizona but firing into the air, you bet your ass if you get caught you'll be sitting in a jail cell overnight.

All you have to do to get the cops to come out if someone's shooting kinda close to your house is tell the cops they're shooting in the air. Even if they're not you do that so you can get the cops to come out and make them move farther away.

true, but a bullet weighing a few grams can't do that much damage, can it? A penny dropped from the Empire State building barely produces enough force to sting a little..

 

[Muffin Man]

true, but a bullet weighing a few grams can't do that much damage, can it? A penny dropped from the Empire State building barely produces enough force to sting a little..

somehow, i'm not quite sure on that one, whats the mas velocity on a falling bullet?

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

http://my.break.com/Content/ViewCon...reak.com/dnet/media/content/2000sparklers.wmv

found it.


2000 sparklers. Thats what I want to see, I wont settle for anything less.

 

[short recoil]

true, but a bullet weighing a few grams can't do that much damage, can it? A penny dropped from the Empire State building barely produces enough force to sting a little..

A penny dropped from empire state building can kill someone (it cracks pavements) this is the reason why window cleaners and workers have to be extremely careful they don't drop stuff......imagine an iron bar coming down.

A bullet falls much faster than a penny, it's made mostly of lead and is designed to be aerodynamic.
I can't imagine in texas the likelyhood of the bullet hitting someone on the head isn't too high but it's still silly, you shouldn't fire a gun like that in the air.

somehow, i'm not quite sure on that one, whats the mas velocity on a falling bullet?

I imagine the terminal velocity on a 9mm parabellum would be about 300 feet per second and it weighs 124grains (8 grams roughly) you do the maths, i imagine that could crack a skull, pentrate a bit.

 

[bryanf445]

A penny dropped from empire state building can kill someone (it cracks pavements) this is the reason why window cleaners and workers have to be extremely careful they don't drop stuff......imagine an iron bar coming down.

A bullet falls much faster than a penny, it's made mostly of lead and is designed to be aerodynamic.
I can't imagine in texas the likelyhood of the bullet hitting someone on the head is too high but it's still silly, you shouldn't fire a gun like that in the air.



I imagine the terminal velocity on a 9mm parabellum would be about 300 feet per second and it weighs 124grains (8 grams roughly) you do the maths, i imagine that could crack a skull, pentrate a bit.

didnt they do something on myth busters that proved a penny couldnt kill you from that height? I think it just showed that it would hurt, not kill.

 

[ة الأسئلة الشائع]

Im going to get so many fireworks this year that you will be able to see it from space!

 

[OvA]

didnt they do something on myth busters that proved a penny couldnt kill you from that height? I think it just showed that it would hurt, not kill.

yep. but A bullet would probably do alot more.

They tested the force with a penny launcer and fired it into one of the guy's hands. He was like "ow", but that was all.

 

[short recoil]

yep. but A bullet would probably do alot more.

They tested the force with a penny launcer and fired it into one of the guy's hands. He was like "ow", but that was all.

Depends what type of penny
I was talking about this beast http://i9.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/de/97/d6_1_b.JPG

 

[ZoFreX]

true, but a bullet weighing a few grams can't do that much damage, can it?

Weight has nothing to do with it, a bullet weighing a few grams can kill you when fired from a firearm.

You also have to remember this bullet is gonna go WAY higher than the top of the Eiffel tower kinda level - and mathematically if you disregard air resistance it would reach head height at the same speed it left the firearm e.g. fatal. Obviously air resistance comes into play but they're pretty aerodynamic, and there has been at least one case on the news where someone has been killed by a bullet from a vertical discharge.

 

[venturon]

Uh, wouldn't the bullet tumble and lose most of it's force?

 

[ZoFreX]

It's possible to make something of a shape that won't tumble but will fall true (a dart, for example), and it would be in the interests of firearms manufacturers for bullets to be similarly modelled (less tumbling = more range), so I'd imagine they'd do the same. Quite happy to experiment, however.

 

[OvA]

Weight has nothing to do with it, a bullet weighing a few grams can kill you when fired from a firearm.

You also have to remember this bullet is gonna go WAY higher than the top of the Eiffel tower kinda level - and mathematically if you disregard air resistance it would reach head height at the same speed it left the firearm e.g. fatal. Obviously air resistance comes into play but they're pretty aerodynamic, and there has been at least one case on the news where someone has been killed by a bullet from a vertical discharge.

I said weight but I was really thinking mass. And it doesn't matter how high it is past a certain point anyways...

EDIT: oh noes, not another what-if things falling thread D:

 

[Greatgat]

I said weight but I was really thinking mass. And it doesn't matter how high it is past a certain point anyways...

EDIT: oh noes, not another what-if things falling thread D:

It's time for someone to whip out the math...

Though not me. I don't do that whole 'arithmetic' thing.