7/10/20

Human's Tribune

Volume 3

Issue 9

Friday, July 10, 2020

What Would Happen if a Gun was Shot in Space?

By Antoinette Durand

This is the Crab Nebula. Image from NASA.

It's an intriguing question. Star Wars didn't explain it because they used laser guns. Firstly, there wouldn't be a loud sound when it fired. There is no oxygen in space, so sound waves can't move through space. There's an internal process to "lighting" the gun, so it would work. Newton's third law of motion says famously that for every action there is an equal, opposite reaction. The recoil of the gun would push you backwards. The bullet itself would travel at the same speed as it would here, but it would go much farther. The gravity on Earth makes the bullet stop and fall to the ground, even if it doesn't hit anything. In space, the bullet will keep moving until it hits something like a meteor or a planet. That would make a great movie, if you ask me.

From howstuffworks.com.

Crazy Facts

From Mental Floss

Andrew Jackson's parrot was kicked out of his funeral for swearing.

Chinese checkers was invented in Germany.

The word PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint—PfeffErminZ.

According to one study, dunking an Oreo in milk for three seconds gives you the optimal balance of sogginess and structural integrity.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.

A group of pugs is called a grumble.

Classic Issue:Facts of Pythagoras

By Antoinette Durand

Full name: Pythagoras of samos
Age at death:75

Birth place: Samos, Greece

Education: he went to Egypt to study with the priest's in the temples.
In mathematics, the Pythagorean theorem, also known as Pythagoras' theorem, is a fundamental relation in Euclidean geometry among the three sides of a right triangle. It states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

2 interesting events:

1.Established a school (518 b.c.)

2.Made prisoner in 528 (B.C.)
Occupations:
Philosopher

Astronomer

Geometer

Music theorist

2 contributions to mathematics:

1.Pythagorean theorem.
2.Studied numbers in music and the natural world.