Re: I Will Break Something

Badger North wrote:

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:44:22 GMT, Lascivious Mink
<T.the.Magnificent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Sure, we've got more information, but air is just as dense,

If you'd consider a change in air density to be a change in ballistics, then surely a change in bullet performance like spinning thousands of times per second should also be considered a change in ballistics. 


First, rifling was well-known by the time of the American Civil War.
In fact, the Roman amentum performed the exact same task with
hand-thrown javelins.

Doesn't matter, it's still different. 

We have the technological/manufacturing sophistication to take
advantage of a well-know principle, but that principle has not changed
whatsoever.


gravity is
just as... gravy as it ever was.  Our technology has improved to make
better use of the immutable laws of physics, but the ballistics
themselves have not changed not a whit.

If you fire a bullet from a modern rifle or pistol straight up into the air, it will hit the ground STILL pointing straight up in the air, and spinning tens of thousands RPM. Muzzleloader, no. 


Exactly.  The technology has improved, physics hasn't.  Rifles have
been around for centuries, but the manufacturing costs made them
prohibitive on a large scale. (and a quibble - you should have written
"smoothbore", not "muzzleloader")

A change in air pressure - density - isn't a change in physics either; if you consider it a change in *ballistics*, then rifling is also a change in *ballistics*.
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