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You might assume that if you shot it straight up, it's going to go up so high that it's going to come down and be coming down the same velocity as it went up. That would hold true if it didn't have a atmosphere. If you were to fire a gun, let's say, on the moon and you escape velocity of the moon, yeah, it would come down low to fast as it went up, most definitely. But this year, yeah, it would come down, but it's greatly reduced in its velocity. And it reached terminal velocity at some point because of the air resistance. The air is, the bullet is trying to come down and the air is pushing up on it and it's slowing it, so it's not going to attain the speed it actually left the barrel from. However...