I would not have believed it possible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzhs1Z8Rwnk
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Mind blowing. No other words
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Re: Mind blowing. No other words
by Cyborg Girl » Wed Jul 03, 2013 3:34 am
That is pretty amazing. I wonder if it's purely a matter of training, or if there's some neurological quirk involved.
Hmm. A nerve impulse travels at ~40 mph. The pellet travels at ~200. The pellet has to cover what, 50 feet? While the nerve impulses have to travel perhaps 5. But then muscles have to contract, and the sword has to move just so...
What's most impressive to me is the coordination this takes. He has to notice the gun firing, judge the pellet's trajectory correctly, and get the sword in place to deflect it. That is a very complex action to perform without consciously thinking about it.
(Assuming for the moment that he does not consciously think tenfold faster than a normal human. Which sounds unlikely, but I suppose isn't out of the question. I mean, if Ramanujan could calculate arbitrary cube roots between words...)
But yeah. Seriously. Wow.
Hmm. A nerve impulse travels at ~40 mph. The pellet travels at ~200. The pellet has to cover what, 50 feet? While the nerve impulses have to travel perhaps 5. But then muscles have to contract, and the sword has to move just so...
What's most impressive to me is the coordination this takes. He has to notice the gun firing, judge the pellet's trajectory correctly, and get the sword in place to deflect it. That is a very complex action to perform without consciously thinking about it.
(Assuming for the moment that he does not consciously think tenfold faster than a normal human. Which sounds unlikely, but I suppose isn't out of the question. I mean, if Ramanujan could calculate arbitrary cube roots between words...)
But yeah. Seriously. Wow.
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Re: Mind blowing. No other words
by SciFiFisher » Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:54 am
In the comment section: 
I can do that. Here hold my beer
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Re: Mind blowing. No other words
by geonuc » Wed Jul 03, 2013 10:14 am
Do you think he did it on one take?
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Re: Mind blowing. No other words
by FZR1KG » Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:21 pm
geonuc wrote:Do you think he did it on one take?
Apparently it was on the first attempt.
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