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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How does it feel to dodge a bullet?

You dodged the proverbial bullet, and that palpable, positive feeling that comes afterward is called relief. Relief may be the most common yet unexamined emotion in the human repertoire.
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Can you learn to dodge bullets?

Can You Dodge a Bullet? Let's start with dodging bullets. The short answer here is that no, you cannot dodge a bullet. This is physically impossible, due to a number of different factors: not least the fact that it takes too long for signals to travel through your nervous system.
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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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Can you dodge a bullet underwater?

Typical bullets can travel just a few feet through the water before they're slowed to a stop. CAV-X bullets can reportedly travel 60 meters underwater, and can go through 2 centimeters of steel fired from 17 meters away, indicating that it could even be used to penetrate submarines.
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Do Navy SEALs have waterproof guns?

But do they still have them? In the early 1970s, U.S. Navy SEALs and Underwater Demolition Teams got a special new weapon. The Mk. 1 Underwater Defense Gun helped combat swimmers defend themselves beneath the waves.
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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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Can a sword split a bullet?

Watch Isao Machii, who holds several Guinness World Records, accurately use his samurai sword with lightning speed to cut a bullet in half. Cutting a speeding bullet in half may be a trick shown in Rajnikanth movies but it can actually be done in real life by a real ninja.
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Can a sword block a bullet?

Swords are very hard and very strong - and if you're trying to deflect a bullet rather than stopping it, a strong piece of metal held at an angle should do the trick quite nicely! If the sword is likely to be used for deflecting many bullets then you might want to look into specialised materials and clever metallurgy.
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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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Can you dodge a shotgun?

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 human dodge an arrow?

Considering that people catch arrows - 10 catches in 2 minutes, it is clearly possible to dodge arrows. Watch the video and you can see that dodging is definitely possible.
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What happens if you burn a bullet?

The bullet, when heated, will explode, and pieces of the casing—often referred to as shrapnel—will scatter in all directions. In the same scenario, if there is a loaded gun in the nightstand during a house fire, the risk increases because there is a potential for a directed force of the bullet out of the gun chamber.
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What is the fastest bullet?

220 Swift remains the fastest commercial cartridge in the world, with a published velocity of 1,422 m/s (4,665 ft/s) using a 1.9 grams (29 gr) bullet and 2.7 grams (42 gr) of 3031 powder.
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Is it possible to make a sword out of diamond?

Short Answer.

While it may be possible to create a sword shaped object from diamond it is simply too brittle to be used effectively. On a side note a sword of pure carbon would also lack the mass to be effective against a similar sized steel blade.
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How much is a real katana?

Authentic katana swords are difficult to come by and can cost anywhere from US$4,000 up to US$10,000 and even higher.
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How thick is bulletproof?

Bulletproof glass varies in thickness from 3⁄4 to 31⁄2 inches (19 to 89 mm).
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Is a phone book Bulletproof?

A car completely covered in phone books will be bulletproof.

However, this may phone books weighed significantly more than the car could carry, so the Build Team was forced to cut back the amount of phone books to 400.
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Are there underwater guns?

An underwater firearm is a firearm designed for use underwater. They are in the arms inventories of many nations. A common feature of underwater firearms or needleguns is that they fire flechettes or spear-like bolts instead of standard bullets. These may be fired by pressurised gas.
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Do Navy SEALs carry Glocks?

The Navy SEAL's standard-issue pistol is the Glock G19. SEALs are allowed to carry their personal choice in 9mm pistols, but many prefer to stick with the standard Glock 19.
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Do Navy SEALs get to choose their weapons?

"As it currently stands, following a deployment, a SEAL will have his weapon taken from him, which has been fine-tuned to certain specifications, and given to a different operator to use.
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