Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 9, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 January 1943 — Shot Out of World [ARTICLE]

Shot Out of World

Scientists believe that if a rifle bullet could be fired upward at a muzzle velocity of seven miles a second, it would out of the atmosphere and never return to the earth, says Collier’s. Such speed is not inconceivable, because, for example, the wave of a .nitroglycerin explosion starts at the rate of five mfes a second.