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Speaker 1: smart Happens. Hi, I'm Marshall Brain with today's question, where

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Speaker 1: do bullets go when guns are fired straight up into

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Speaker 1: the air. You may have seen television programs where people

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Speaker 1: who are celebrating fire guns or pistols or machine guns

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Speaker 1: straight up into the air as part of the celebration,

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Speaker 1: the saying what goes up must come down as an

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Speaker 1: appropriate starting point for our conversation here. If you fire

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Speaker 1: a gun into the air, the bullet will travel up

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Speaker 1: to a mile high, depending on the angle of the

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Speaker 1: shot and the power of the gun. Once it reaches

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Speaker 1: its apogee, the bullet will fall. Air resistance limits its speed,

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Speaker 1: but bullets are designed to be fairly aerodynamic, so the

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Speaker 1: speed is still quite lethal. If the bullet happens to

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Speaker 1: is pretty remote because the number of people is low,

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Speaker 1: but in crowded cities the probability rises dramatically and people

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Speaker 1: get killed quite often by stray bullets. Therefore, most major

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Speaker 1: cities have laws in place to try to keep people

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