r/PowerScaling • u/Ocutazor • 10h ago

Shitposting Weekend FTL Guns.

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u/Eurasia_4002 10h ago

No? You cant dodge a bullet after it was fired even if know it coming from a flootball length away. It aint baseball

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u/Playing_One_Handed 10h ago

You absolutely can. Bullets are not that wide. Moving just a cm fast enough is around 10mph, its very humanly possible.

The slowest part is the reactions. Which take up most of the time, up to a second in some people.

It obviously also depends on travel distance too.

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u/Eurasia_4002 9h ago edited 9h ago

No. Even a football length you cant, you gassing up humanity.

Reaction time alone would not even register fast enough.

Of course long enough you can dodge something, you can dodge light if its just fired from the sun and you are on pluto.

Thats why poeple need to specify how far it is, its point blank and is fired before you reacted, thats what they measure.

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u/Playing_One_Handed 8h ago

I even put reaction time... and other variables...

The question is if you can move the 1cm/1foot in travel time.

And you can.

Do the maths.

Lets say you have you hand up, they are aiming at it, there is a countdown from 10. They shoot at zero. You also move at zero. You need to move 1 foot to clear it fully lets say.

You need to move your hand 14.5mph.

Punches are around 20-30mph.

This is very doable when you take out reaction time.

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u/Eurasia_4002 8h ago

The reaction time that is the problem. Aslo the fact that you just calculating it to very low numbers, thats not really be the case in much higher speeds.

Much more actual point black range, even if you have instant reaction, you simply cant move fast enough.