I just realized, that as a European, I never even heard an actual gunshot.
As an American, how do y’all know to up the intensity on your cardio then? Nothing gets the blood pumping like being out on a bike ride and hearing that crack
Can I interest you in my workout membership?
They do. In fact, guns were initially invented by modifying fireworks. Obviously some guns and some fireworks are very distinctive, but generally they sound very similar
I would assume they sound similar because they both use quantities of what is commonly referred to as “gun powder” as an accelerant. Aka "black powder, aka saltpeter+sulfur+charcoal.
It’s just a highly combustible material combined with an oxidizer… Same as per much anything we burn, just in powder form. Give it a spark and kaboom!
I’m pretty sure that’s very similar in nature to TNT, though different chemicals are used in a different process. Black powder is really very simple by comparison. The big thing with TNT is that there’s quite a lot of it in a single tube of the explosive. With black powder, it’s simply combining the dry ingredients carefully, until thoroughly mixed, not dissimilar to how you would mix flour, sugar, and baking powder to make a cake… Though, if your cake explodes, you probably did it wrong.
Volatile substances are fascinating!
When I was in Basic Training, one guy quoted a movie constantly; and the relevant line was like “IT MAKES A DISTINCTIVE SOUND.”
I’m surprised that many Europeans don’t have compulsory service in their ‘gap’ year.
I don’t think hunting is nearly as prevalent in Europe as it is in North America, or Australia
Out in the country in the UK you definitely hear them, the only reason the meme wouldn’t apply here is because there would never be shooting at night so I wouldn’t confuse it with fireworks, instead they start really early on both Saturday and Sunday mornings (there is a place within earshot that does clay pigeon shooting and I’m pretty sure hunting too, most weekends). I hate it.
IIRC the audible difference is supposed to be that fireworks have more of an echoey boom because they are up in the air while gunshots are a sharper sound
It’s definitely both.
Also "Is that shitty truck just backfiring down the road or are they doing a drive-by?
