Standing on the bank of a swimming pool you saw a poisonous snake sitting at the bottom of swimming pool you precisely aimed a gun and fired a bullet at the snake will the bullet hit the snake?  Why? Why not?
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You wouldn't hit the snake, and the water has nothing to do with the trajectory of the bullet.\nWhat you want to keep in mind is the refraction of light in air compared to water.\nFor example, if you put a stick half in and half out of water, you'll notice that it doesn't look straight anymore.  The part in the water will be offset from the part in the air.\nTherefore if you aim directly at the snake, you'll miss.
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When snakes are afraid, they'll strike.\n\nSnakes are afraid of sudden movements... so they are likely to strike.\n\nAlso, snakes will go for the groin (like women) so be careful!\n\nJust try to avoide them.  If you need one out of some place, use a big branch, pref with lots of branches comming down to one place where you hold.  Put it by the snake and hope he crawls into it.  Then move him some place safe.\n\nMost poisonous snakes are poisoness with colored bands... just as an aside.
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You friend is wrong. Some worms continue to live as two worms if you cut them up, or the living part grows again.\n\nBut if you cut up a snake, you break its backbone. No creature survives a cut up back bone. Yes, it dies.
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Hmm-m. Interesting question...\n\nI thought about this for a while and see no\nreason why this math would not be correct.\nAssuming that the bullet did explode when\nstruck by the firing pin, and the bullet left \nthe end of the barrel of the gun at say \n2000 feet per second velocity...\n\n2000 fps = 1800 Mph\n\nThe Moon is 239,000 miles from Earth.\nLet's say you were 10 miles up in the sky\nwhen you fired the gun.  Distance = 238,990 Miles.\n\nSo, 238,990 / 1800 = 132.7 hours \n\nSince there is no atmosphere in space to slow down the \nbullet as it traveled, we can estimate that the bullet would \ncontinue traveling at 1800 mph for the entire trip. The \ngravitational pull of the Moon would influence the bullet's\nvelocity somewhat towards the end of its flight, but my\nfigures show that with 1/6 the gravity of Earth, the Moon\nwould not significantly change the time of flight.\n\nAnswer: 132 Hours.   or   5.5 Days.\n\nNow, I have two questions for you:\n\n#1.)  If the rifle did fire off in space, would you see any smoke?\n\n#2.)  If you were 10 miles up in the atmosphere - say 50,000 ft.,\nhow fast must you be going, to be able to remain at that altitude,\nand in which direction?\n\nYour question makes reference to the Space Station as the point of firing the gun. In my answer above I did not use that as the platform from which the gun was fired because I do not have at my finger tips the approximate altitude of the Space Station though I know it is much more than 50,000 Ft. I also did not take into account the thin atmosphere which exists at 50,000 feet, or the pull backwards on the bullet by the gravity of Earth. These omissions were made simply to run the numbers and see what I came up with since I thought this was an interesting question. Now, having dispensed with the mundane aspects of my quick math, let's discuss the real problem with this question...\n\nThe Earth is spinning. The Moon is orbiting the Earth at a certain velocity, hence it is a moving target. The moving target is being shot at from a moving platform. If you have any hope of hitting the Moon with your bullet, you would have to fire at the place where the Moon will be 5.5 days from the time of firing your gun, not at where the Moon is now. To do that requires more math than a few simple divisions of distance and velocity. For example, the moon swings completely around the Earth at a radius of 238,900 miles in 27.3 Earth days. The circumfrence of that circle is Pi x D = 1,500,292 miles (assuming the orbit is a circle, which it is not). So, the velocity that the Moon is moving away from its present spot right this minute is 2,290 miles per hour.  Since the Moon rises and sets on our horizon each night, you can see that in our calculation, the Moon would have passed overhead at least 5 times in 5.5 days. So your rifle would have to be pointed at the place you calculate the Moon should be at in 5.5 days.        \nRegards,\nZah
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not sure..but you should definitely read the book "Salvation on Sand Mountain" by Dennis Covington.  It talks about snake handling and it's a very good book.
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The bullet would disintegrate in the Earth's atmosphere.\nExplode?  From a bullet?  Uh, no.
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it depends on the family of the snake tat belongs 2 \nex:take python it will eat all small snakes which does not belong to python family..
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snakes are cold blooded animals and dont drink milk. Its a common superstition (atleast in India). Consumption of milk may infact make a snake ill, but that again is not due to self poisoning. Its due to its inability to digest milk.\nRead up more here:\nhttp://www.explorewardha.com/snake.htm\nhttp://www-cgi.cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/south/11/30/india.snakes/index.html
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I think it would land behind you because as it rises, the rotational speed of the bullet around the earth would have to increase in order to keep up with you because it's going around a larger circle.  Of course, if you're going around a sphere, that could also be considered to be in front of you.  Also, I doubt that the bullet would fall at the same speed that it was shot.  I don't think that gravity would get it going as fast as the gun did.
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When you say "fell on" him, was it dead or injured, or did it fly away?   If its injured or dead and nearby, get it and call Vector Control or the hmane society, maybe.  They can test to see if it had rabies.  \n\nIf not its a tough call.  A bat can scratch or bit someone with no pain, and still cause a rabies infection.  Its very rare, but it can happen.   The bummer is that rabies, if left untreated, is almost always deadly.  \n\nThere was a girl who underwent a new type of treatment several months ago and survived, but even then she was in the hospital for weeks and weeks.   Other than that I don't recall of ever hearing of anyone surviving a rabies infection.  \n\nTreatment is not like it was in the old days where you got shots in the stomach, but it is still a long and lengthy process.  Lots of shots, but only in the arm.  \n\nSoap and water on the area is a must!\n\nBut based on you added description, He should have already taken a shower, and then I'd say don't worry about it.  People who go spelunking run in to bats all the time...
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Well i speak from experience. Being shot is extremely painful and I don't recommend it to any one. First you will feel nothing then, it feels like being hit by an extremely strong force all in one spot of your body, the entrance point. After, it does burn because of the heat created by the bullets rotation in the air. Later a large bruise will form around the wound and it will ache like an SOB.
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When bullets are fired straight into the air they go well.....up.  Just like you and me when we jump on a trampoline eventually gravity will get the better of it and it will start coming back down.  Now if that were the only thing to take into account it would just come straight back down and thump you on the head, but because of extra forces caused by air flow and rotation the bullet won't go exactly straight up and down (thankfully).  Now a bullet that's shot straight up is going an average 900 m/s, which means it'll get up about 4,000 meters in the air and when taking into account air resistance it'll come back down with a speed of about 100 m/s.  This is a fraction of the speed but is still fast enough to pierce human flesh.  To answer the final question, the apogee is the highest point that the bullet reaches.
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according to the tv show mythbusters bullets shot straight in the air will fall side ways and land into the ground about 2 inches,how ever the force of the falling bullet is not powerful enough to penetrate the skull. there have been stories of people being hit(and even killed) by bullets fired into the air,but they were fired at an angle less than 90 degrees and traveled over a mile away, the bullet was not free falling but instead coming straight at the person because of the trajectory it fired from.
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Not sure, but I'm thinking the snake was upright, and very beautiful.  I think this because after "the fall" everything changed and the snake was told to crawl around on the ground, and he is ugly now.(at least I think so!) So I tend to think he was beautiful, as if he weren't Eve wouldn't have been attracted to him maybe, nobody really knows, this is a good question!
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Yes a big problem. Ever hear of the "boiling frog"? If you throw a frog into a boiling pot of water it will freak out, try to escape, and eventually die. BUT... if you put a frog into a cool pot of water turn the burner on and let it reach a boil, the frog will fall asleep in the warming water and then die as it boils. Wake up everybody, we're warming up, don't fall asleep! P.S. all you literal jerks out there.. this is a metaphor. Frogs biologically will respond. If they are able to jump from the container when it heats up, they will. Where are we gonna jump?
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Snakebite\nRattlesnake bites were often treated just like you see in old westerns: somebody would slice open the bite wound and suck the poison out. This was actually fairly effective if done right away. In one case we have record of, the victim (who was a child, incidentally) was given a shot of whiskey and a tobacco poultice to bandage the wound.
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lone ranger gets bitten by a deadly snake on his penis.....he asks tonto to find a doctor and help him.....when he gets to the doctor he tells him whats happened he says you have to suck poison from wound,.......so all the way back over the prairies and forest..he says the same thing over in his head... suck poison from wound....suck poison from wound....when he eventually gets to the lone ranger he asked what the doctor said....thinking for a moment he says........YOU Gonna Die.....