Alright, picture this: you're floating in space, all suited up like an astronaut, holding a gun (kinda wild, but stick with me). You pull the trigger. Bang! But there's no sound—because, yeah, space is silent. No air, no sound waves.
So where does that bullet go?
Well, since there’s no gravity pulling it down (unless you’re near a planet) and no air to slow it down, the bullet just... keeps going. Like, forever. Seriously. It’ll fly through space in a straight line at the same speed unless something—like a planet, star, or spaceship—gets in the way. Thanks, Newton’s first law!
No drag. No slowdown. It could orbit something if you're near a big enough object. Or it might travel through space for billions of years, like a tiny metal time traveler.
Basically? That bullet becomes space junk. Deadly junk. So maybe don’t go shooting stuff in space, yeah?
Crazy how one little bang could last forever out there.