{"id":40910,"date":"2014-01-28T23:35:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/catching-a-bullet.html"},"modified":"2014-01-28T23:35:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T06:35:49","slug":"catching-a-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/catching-a-bullet.html","title":{"rendered":"Catching a Bullet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Thought Experiments are cool. In this case: <i>could you catch a bullet fired into the air, if you were at the right place and the right time?<\/i>\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/mERbxwgi-QwpEvMFl_m9r5SlL6dk4iFWrfRmAulEzzJeZbAFei_u6SXUQVIHrZYvTmYxj0JeacGyqlogEJO51tLTvg=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/what-if.xkcd.com\/81'>Catch!<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday. Prev \u00b7 Catch! Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air and can then be safely caught by hand? e.g. shooter is at sea level and catcher is up a mountain at the extreme range of the gun.\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cAuWcQnemje' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought Experiments are cool. In this case: could you catch a bullet fired into the air, if you were at the right place and the right time?\ufeff Catch! Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday. Prev \u00b7 Catch! Is there any way to fire a gun so that the bullet flies through the air &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/28\/catching-a-bullet.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catching a Bullet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1450,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/04\/but_not_too_dea.html","url_meta":{"origin":40910,"position":0},"title":"&#8230; But not too deadly","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Jan-02 10:38am","format":false,"excerpt":"There is an increasing market for frangible bullets -- ones which will stop someone, but not create a blow-through or riccochet hazard. 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