Can you catch a bullet?

The answer you are looking for is no. The point of bullets is to kill people. If you tried, you would find the bullet goes by too fast to see, much less reach out and catch. If the bullet hit your fingers, most likely they would be shot off.
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Has anyone ever caught a bullet in their teeth?

In more recent times magicians such as Dorothy Dietrich (1981), and later Criss Angel (2000s), and David Blaine (2008) have caught the bullet in a metal cup in their mouth that makes it credible.
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Can you dodge a bullet?

Bullet dodging, Scientific American reports, is one such make-believe ability invented by Hollywood. Regardless of your speed and finesse, no human can dodge a bullet at close range. The bullet is simply traveling too fast. Even the slowest handguns shoot a bullet at 760 miles per hour, SciAm explains.
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Can a bullet bounce off skin?

The generally accepted threshold for breaking the skin barrier is 136 miles per hour, although some bullet/skin combinations will cause the bullet to bounce off you at up to 225 miles per hour. The pointier a bullet is, the slower it can be moving and still break your skin.
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Can a bullet leave the earth?

Even a bullet, fired straight up at the maximum speed a gunpowder blast can accelerate it to, will never leave the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. A combination of gravity and air resistance will slow it down until it reaches a maximum height, whereupon it will fall back down to Earth's surface.
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Would a bullet travel forever in space?

Once shot, the bullet will keep going, quite literally, forever. "The bullet will never stop, because the universe is expanding faster than the bullet can catch up with any serious amount of mass" to slow it down, said Matija Cuk, an astronomer with joint appointments at Harvard University and the SETI Institute.
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Do bullets go faster in space?

So: instantaneously after firing, the speed of a bullet in space and on earth should be the same. The effect of drag on the bullet will slow it down on earth, which the bullet would not feel in space, but for objects the size and shape of a bullet, this doesn't have a very large effect on the speed of the bullet.
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How fast is a bullet in mph?

When bullets fly through the air, they do so at amazing speeds. The fastest bullets travel more than 2,600 feet per second. That's equivalent to over 1,800 miles per hour.
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What happens if you shoot a gun underwater?

Ballistics: When guns are submerged underwater, the water quickly fills the barrel that when you fire the gun, the bullet will have to push all the water out from the barrel bearing all the weight of the water which may be heavier than the bullet. This will dramatically decrease the range of the bullet.
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How fast does a gun shoot mph?

An average bullet travels at around 2736 Kilometers/hour or 1700 miles/hour. That's 6 times faster than the top speed of the fastest car in the world.
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Can a Bible stop a bullet?

Rickey Wagoner, 49, was shot three times at point-blank range and stabbed in the arm, but survived because both bullets aimed at his chest were stopped by a New Testament devotional Bible in his front pocket, according to WHIO. The third bullet struck him in the leg.
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Is a jet faster than a bullet?

The bullet goes faster than the jet if you fire the bullets while inside the jet. If there is no friction (i.e: the bullet was fired in space), then you could accelerate the jet, catch up with the bullet and pick it out of the sky (although the rotation of the bullet would probably cut up your fingers).
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Is Spider Man faster than a bullet?

Peter has been fast enough to dodge attacks like lightning at close range which is faster than bullets. And other times we see him perform sub relativistic feats . Although we never actually see Spider-Man catch bullets with his hands we have at least 2 instances where he gets close.
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How many magicians have died from the bullet catch?

Every magician fears performing The Bullet Catch: the deadliest trick in all of magic. Twelve magicians have died attempting it.
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What magician caught a bullet?

Internationally famous magician David Blaine has always amazed the audience with his tricks. But rarely an act has tricked him. Recently, 43-year-old Blaine performed a stunt at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas where his attempt to fire a gun and catch the bullet in his mouth went horribly wrong.
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How did David Blaine catch bullet?

While preparing for “Beyond Magic,” Blaine was attempting to catch a bullet in his mouth. He was fitted with a gum shield that went in this mouth. The shield held a metal cup – and that's what he would actually catch the bullet in.
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Do astronauts carry guns?

Guns were never carried aboard U.S. spacecraft. Instead, a sharp machete served as the most serious armament for a jungle landing. Besides, with a worldwide U.S. network of bases and existing air-sea rescue forces, odds were that any downed astronauts would be found and rescued pretty quickly.
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Will you go deaf if you shoot a gun underwater?

The sound itself isn't any louder, but it doesn't lose nearly as much energy traveling to your ear. Which means you're hearing it as if it was much closer. Imagine how much louder a gun would be if you held it right up to your ear and you'll get the idea. Sound is attenuated less by water than air.
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Will an AK 47 fire underwater?

How firing an AK47 underwater can actually make it work BETTER: Enthusiast proves not only does weapon fire while submerged, it reloads faster. Submerging an AK 47 gun and firing it underwater appears to make it work better, according to high speed footage.
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How high can a bullet go up?

Gunshots can travel as high as 10,000 feet, and the wind takes them in unpredictable directions. Julian Sommerville Hatcher, the U.S. military ordnance expert whose work on this topic is often cited, managed to land only four of his 500 vertically fired bullets in the target range.
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How fast does a sniper bullet go?

Bullet flight time, from the muzzle of the Canadian sniper's gun to target was just over seven seconds. The bullet was traveling at 940 feet per second when it hit, which means it slowed to below the speed of sound.
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Can a gun fire underwater?

If you're wondering how it's even possible to shoot a gun underwater, gunpowder contains oxygen — a key element in the firing process — the gun still goes off exactly as it would on land.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Do bullets go off in a fire?

In a structure fire, the heat produced during the burn activates and causes the bullets to explode; the larger the caliber of the bullet, the more explosive potential.
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