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Originally posted by MacGnG
but if you could get past that it would keep going until it reaches our atmosphere and burn up i guess
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EXTREMELY unlikely. It requires reams of calculations to get a ballistic object (the Apollo spacecraft) from the moon back to the earth. It also requires midcourse adjustments. The likelihood that you could just fire a gun randomly from the moon and get anywhere near the earth is extremely remote - by the time the bullet intersected earth's orbit (if it even did) the earth wouldn't be where it was when you fired the gun. - after all, the Apollo capsule travelled at 20,000 mph and still took 3 days to get there. A bullet doesn't even fire at 1,000mph
