• over_clox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In GTA, at least in Vice City, if you shoot the moon with the sniper rifle, the moon changes size 👍

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        1 year ago

        To the idiots that will try this, don’t. There is a small chance your bullet will kill someone. It has to end up somewhere. No, it can not make it passed the Stratosphere… I mean… bullet always come back down.

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            1 year ago

            Nah, bullets don’t go anywhere near escape velocity. Escape velocity is ~11.2km/s and the fastest bullets (FAR faster than most) only go ~4000f/s, which is barely over~1.2km/s.

            Any bullet that is shot up will come back down, and not terribly far away, either. Even the biggest artillery systems only have barely over 100km range.

              • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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                1 year ago

                The US government tried that a long while back… The company Spinlaunch is currently working on yeeting stuff into orbit with a centrifuge… So yes, some unusual methods can work.

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              11 months ago

              The moon isn’t at escape velocity either (source: It’s still there).

              Doesn’t really change the numbers probably, but you’d need a little less than 11.2 km/s to reach the moon.

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                10 months ago

                Wrong, that is not how orbital mechanics work. The moon IS below escape velocity, but it’s orthogonal to the force of gravity. It also has a 240000 mile head start on getting away, yet it’s STILL not escaping while traveling over 1km/s.

                Shooting a bullet straight up, you would have to shoot faster than escape velocity for it to even reach the moon when using simple ballistic calculations.

                There is A LOT of energy in those thousands upon thousands of miles.

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      1 year ago

      You can also use a low gravity cheat, get into a rhino tank, turn the gun backwards and continuously shoot so the tank starts floating.

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        1 year ago

        In gta3, that was my favorite way to get between the islands after picking up misty. Then my older brother showed me where the banshee spawned and I never needed the tank again. Game sometimes got wonky and left the low gravity on for NPCs. Made cop chases a lot of fun