A riddle to share

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:13 am

Does not make sense either.

Or is it my English failing me again?

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:41 am

Deathblaster's statement or mine?

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:47 am

sorry. I meant Deathblaster's..

See just failed again

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:18 pm

It makes sense . . . though only barely.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:19 pm

I re-read it a few times, marginally better.

Shang Li · Post by **Shang Li** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:40 pm

Movies and particle beams have to do with my reasearch how?

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:44 pm

You'd be surprised Shang Li.

Remind me to rent The Matrix if you come over in August.

Shang Li · Post by **Shang Li** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:46 pm

I have seen it.

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:49 pm

Ahhh, well the entire thing got sidetracked when I mentioned I'd actually literally dodged a bullet once and then someone mention The Matrix and it snowballed.

Holister · Post by **Holister** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:55 pm

Wow...this is this I read this thread, but I can so relate to this.

What you have described is like what happened to me that night in December a few years back when I shot that kid.

There I was standing in the snow, the wind whipping past me, then all at one time seemed to slow down, each snow flake I could see. I could see the kid pulling the gun out of his coat. Then, like, I don't know how to explain it, it was as if I was casually drawing my piece as if I was at the firing range. Then a "pop", not a loud bang, just a faint "pop" over the sudden silence of the moment. I could see the bullet as if in slow motion leave my gun and crawl its way to the kid's head. Before he could pull the trigger, he was dead, the bullet hit square between the eyes.

I can never forget that one moment in time, mere seconds, but it seemed like an eternity. I could never explain the sensation until now.

Thanks Guys, I mean it.

Shang Li · Post by **Shang Li** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:57 pm

Ah ok.

And for the rest of you, dodging bullets is NOT impossible, just improbable. I myself have been fortunate enough to intercept a bullet with one of my blades a time or two. (I dont recommend trying, even after many years of training and practice I still have less than a .002% sucess rate)

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:03 am

No, dodging bullets is impossible.

Making it harder for someone to accurately shoot at you is possible and highly advised.

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:09 am

As Ron said most people can't dodge bullets those that seem to are more likely dodgeing where a person intends to put a bullet. I realize that may seem to be a weird statment to some, but if you know what you are looking for it is possible to be faster than the person pulling the trigger. To some this would seem to dodgeing bullets but it is not.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:11 am

Potato pahtahto.

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:13 am

Uhhh, no guys, I heard the shot, turned around, saw the bullet and moved out of its path.

I don't know how.

I'd rather not dwell upon it.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:16 am

Wanna try again?

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:20 am

Sure, I'll be the shooter this time.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:21 am

You really going for a challenge, huh, with the pistol so close to your temple.

Bert_the_Turtle · Post by **Bert_the_Turtle** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:25 am

We're getting off topic again.

Shadowstalker · Post by **Shadowstalker** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:26 am

You think?

Holister · Post by **Holister** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:12 am

"If you can dodge a bullet, you can dodge a ball!"

Shang Li · Post by **Shang Li** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:23 am

"Yes sir, we will land this plane wherever you say sir, your in charge."

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:37 am

Very, very few bullets in use today are subsonic (ie sound of the shot is faster than the bullet) but they do exist.

It would have to be a long shot with a subsonic bullet for Bert to do that.

or Bert is a precog and don't know it.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:50 am

Agreed.

Shang Li · Post by **Shang Li** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:06 pm

Hmm. Possibly a good point. Perhaps in times of extreme stress the mind "peeks" into the future just a brief moment? (Could one of our resident experts explain to me how regular pregonition works?) It would help to explain how certain fighters seem to just "know" where the next attack is coming from, and where it is going.

Belive it or not, even though I have been able to achive the state almost at will (as long as I can center) for a few years now, this is the first time I ever decided to look into the how and why of it.

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:12 pm

Could be mere intuition and therefore have no explanation.

Ron Caliburn · Post by **Ron Caliburn** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:15 pm

I don't consider it precognition for me. In my 30 odd years I've spent most of them training for or participating in combat. I've spent more of my life training and fighting than I have done anything else, including sleep.

With practice and expeirence you learn to anticipate. You know that when certain muscles twitch on the chest or the eyes focus on somehting that someone is going to attack in a particular way.

Everyone has them, they are called Tells.

The better you are at finding these tells, the more likely you are to get a step ahead.

Even with my armour, I cna't take the pounding that someone like Willie or Huntress can - so it's the tells that usually make the difference between life and death for me. Knowing when and where the strike is coming gives me the oppourtunity to escape.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:36 pm

Reflex. Quick processing of facts. Muscle memory. Some intuition. A bit of many things...

Kolya · Post by **Kolya** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:49 pm

Could explain why some people with training or experience are capable of pulling off amazing feats..

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:08 pm

for example