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Moto RAZR Stops Bullet, Saves Man's Life
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/sarcasm
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always keep your phone close to the heart
but if the bullet was fired @ the max range that's still deadly he wouldn't have survived
11/24/08
If it was fired at the maximum possible range where it could have still penetrated to his heart (assuming it missed the ribs), smacking into a cel-phone should have ablated enough of the force to save his life. He probably would have either still had penetration (just not deep enough to be lethal), or he would have felt like he'd been kicked by a mule and had an impressive bruise to show off.
11/23/08
*shakes head*
It's truly sad the way New Orleans has struggled to comeback while the rest of the nation continues to ignore the plight of its people.
11/23/08
The bullet would have been way more deformed, left alone the phone.
Mythbusters busted this already with an iPod.
Its just a lie or an ordinary news story, you can decide
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11/24/08
Bullets lose speed as they push their way through yard after yard of air, and given enough height and distance would eventually reach a point where they're just falling straight down with the force of gravity (the easiest way to achieve this is to fire straight up, and once gravity and wind resistance overcome the ballistic force, it will reverse direction and simply fall back to ground). There's also the possibility that the gun malfunctioned in some manner, and the bullet never really achieved any real speed. Regardless, it most definitely _is_ possible for something as flimsy as a cel-phone to stop a bullet once it's lost enough speed. The trouble is, hitting a target that small at sufficient distance for that much loss of velocity would be damn near impossible. It'd be much easier to recreate the experiment by firing rounds that have had most of their gunpowder removed.
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