Will a gun fire in space?

[CloakedRhombus]

I fuckn; hate you people!

[NETWizzJbirk]

What you need is to mix a gun and a vaccuum flask to create the ultimate silencer.

[TheMagicalTouch]

actully the firing pin hits the primer, that greates a spark, that ignites the gunpowder...

[Jackrules31]

Thats a vacuum, not a zero gravity atmosphere. what is this test?

[tykjen76]

@Jackrules31 Uhm..dont you even know how gravity differs from normal when inside a vacuum?

[andrew98205]

@tykjen76 gravity doesn't change inside a vacuum... lol

[tykjen76]

@andrew98205 it doesn't? hahaha what new things you are here to learn us, monkey.

[slantedseven]

@tykjen76 you mean teach.

[tykjen76]

@slantedseven no i dont. monkeys do not teach. they learn

[MrJupter182]

@Jackrules31 Essentially, they are testing to see if thrust works similarly both in space and on Earth. Nothing about gravity is mentioned in here.

[Bcorral503]

If you fired it in space wouldn't you get pushed back and float away forever

[MrJupter182]

@Bcorral503 It will go into orbit due to the presence of the large stars and planets instead of floating away.

[FatTonyCologino]

@Bcorral503 not if you had a super cool jet pack type thing!

[ouroboroshunter]

Isnt gunpowder nitrocellulose based? I thought saltpetre, charcoal, and sulfur are for black powder.

[NotBoredEnough]

@Bcorral503 Yes, but very, very slowly. Your body's inertia would require several shots to move quickly. More likely, you'd just end up spinning about some point in your body like when sneezes in zero-G make you float/spin backwards over the course of a half-hour.

@ouroboroshunter Yes on both. NC/Guncotton/Cellulose Nitrate is used in powders these days for being cleaner and relatively smoke-free compared to BP. Why they're giving us BP's mixture baffles me.

[E90PAT]

Any idiot knows gun powder is self oxidizing.

[mark01318]

i wonder if the bullet would go on forever and if so would u be send the other way from the recoil

[Forlo12345]

@ggzofran Gravity doesn't matter. You can still fire a gun in zero gravity, and nothing would be different about its instanteous velocity or the force of impact once it hits something. The only difference is there is no gravity influencing the bullet's path of motion (in other words, it travels in a straight line).

[KingErvin23]

Wow they really went all out to try and rip off mythbusters huh

[sw4mp3rt]

"it was kinda quiet".  No shit, there's no air for the sound to travel through...

[doe791]

The topic was still interesting so STFU about MB.

[itsMinuteMaid]

Yea, but what about the lack of gravity?

[MrRedRooster]

@itsMinuteMaid The combustion is not effected by gravity. The only thing is that the bullet will go on and on and on...without dropping or loosing speed (no friction of an atmosphere).

[sythax]

well at least the CG is better than mythbusters'

[MrJohn1966elliott]

Take gun to Nasa and blast off to space , test gun shoot in space. Let try it and What happened ?

[runningformoney]

why the fuck wouldn't it fire?

[JayFox86]

@runningformoney

If there is no oxygen, the gunpowder would not be able to ignite. Thats why they drained it from the case; but there was enough oxygen encased within the bullet casing itself.

[cds44356]

@JayFox86 didn't you listen? The OXIDIZER contains the oxygen. There needs to be exactly ZERO atmospheric oxygen present for the cartridge to fire. Everything needed to make the bullet fire is contained inside the cartridge. @ggzofran what difference would having gravity or not make in firing a gun? The after affects might be an issue as in newtons second law but the firing would go off without a problem.

[Martena56]

"Hey andy can you just stand in front of that hole right there? Thanks"

*press's button*

[AxeInfection]

HEY FUCK YOU REDDIT

[coffeetablesex]

lol...mythbuster wanna-bes

[JollyFellow93]

Cue the vacuum-of-space modern warfare