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161 - How to Make Two Bullets Collide in Midair

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The Importance of Lock Time

The amount of time it takes for that hammer to fall is important and that's called the lock time. If a bullet travels 10 feet and it takes that hammer 40 milliseconds to fall or 10 milliseconds to fall, depending on the powder, you're looking at like more than a millisecond and a half. So super hard to dodge. The aha moment was, oh, wow, we can't shoot the same time. I think Adam Savage and Jamie, if Mythbusters, they tried this a while back.

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