This principal was definitely on a power trip

"Up" is relative. Looking at the earth, you're shooting outwards from the sphere (or really irregular elipsoid). By the time the bullet reaches its destination, the planet has turned, resulting in an offset.

The Coriolis effect is a "fictitious force", meaning it's not an actual inertial force, but is calculated as a force based on a frame of reference. In this case, the frame of reference doesn't include the earth's rotation - you can't see that happening, and yet even though the bullet went straight up, something caused it to come back down in a different location, a force, a fictitious force, a Coriolis force.

Listen. I saw an episode of 1000 ways to die that said it’s a real way to die and I’ll believe what I want

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I came for the funny and now I'm having a existential crisis about the futility of life.

Wurd

Does Gnar make more sense?

When it happened anyways

It was pretty gross lol but also hilarious

The comic is good but I would maybe illustrate the bullet better so we have better context for the last panel

Does Coriolis effect work on things shot straight up? I thought it was just north/southbound. But its been a while since learning it.

And not on a rotating planet with a Coriolis effect.

I mean that's pretty slow. Might draw blood for a person. But I suppose for a tortoise might be a bit worse.

Sure but anything going 50-90m/s (rough terminal velocity of a 9mm) is still going to leave a hell of a mess of the tortoise

So many people misunderstand this. A normal sized bullet falling on your head....from any height....would certainly hurt and might draw a bit of blood, but won't be fatal.

Terminal velocity for a 9mm is 50-90 m/s … Tortoise still going to smushed

Tortoise vs Hare (trigger)

The terminal velocity of a bullet is far lower than its muzzle velocity. While it is still enough to kill if it hits you in the right spot, it wouldn't shatter your head as the illustration suggests.

A vacuum implies the absence of air resistance, which would allow the bullet's fall speed to reach its muzzle speed and actually explode heads.

Bullets fired straight up reach terminal velocity on their way down due to air resistance, so this would only happen if there wasn't air resistance. i.e in a vacuum.

(not to undermine lots of people being hurt my stray bullets fired into the air, but they aren't fired straight up)

Eh?

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Alec?

I feel like the turtle...Crushed hopes and dreams

You should teach it to draw a thin line to illustrate that said bullet was coming back down. Otherwise the only two other options is the rabbit sent a second bullet into the turtles brain or he used mind control to burst the turtles brain.

I like THIS version better....