Can a person survive a bullet lodging in the brain, and is it possible for the bullet to move about inside?
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People can survive a bullet lodged in the brain. Believe it or not, I've known more than one person who has survived that kind of thing & their doctors thought it better to leave the bullet alone. One of these friends later had to have the bullet removed because it was moving & that was years after the shooting.\n\nIn regard to the physical drive and gaines strength, I'm pretty certain that is fantasy for the movie's sake, but the brain is still a mystery in many ways, so I guess even that part of it could be remotely possible.
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normally blood rushing to the BRAIN can cause problems, but you dont have to worry at all.....you are unlikely to die  despite lots of blood in your body.....Get the message? if you didnt, just proves my point doesnt it...
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Bullets will keyhole / tumble / flip, what ever you want to call due to a number of reasons, ranging from bullet balance, design, miss-molding, to cartridge design, powder fill, but what I have found to be one of the biggest causes is a worn or damaged muzzle, and to fix this you can take you gun to a gunsmith or if you are mechanical you can order a lapping or stoning kit from a company which carries firearm repair stuffs.\n\nNow if I misinterpreted your question and you are asking about the normal spin of the bullet which aids in the stability of the projectile this is cause by a corkscrew like cut on the inside of the barrel called rifling. If you want more info on that just search for barrel rifling. Hope this helps
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Well, if you spin the barrel again then the odds of my brains being splattered on the opposite wall are at 1 in 3.  (2 bullets in 6 chambers)\n\nBut if you don't spin the barrel, I'm feeling a bit better because my chances of survival rise to 75%.  Why?  Well, since the bullets are in adjacent chambers, there's only one bullet that I have to worry about - the one that might (or might not) be in the next chamber.  However, since there are four empty chambers, and since only one of those empty chambers is followed by a chamber with a bullet in it, there is only a 1 in 4 chance that the wall gets a fresh coat of paint.\n\nI say, don't spin it - I'll press my luck.
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first of all let me say that i'm very sorry to hear about your friend.\n\nmost people with brain stem injuries unfortunately do not survive. this is the "control center" for our brains and is responsible for most everything our bodies do. \n\nmost cases of brain injuries i've seen (i work in trauma icu) don't have promising outcomes. the brain swells, and if there is no skull fracture-the swelling has nowhere to go but down the neck, which involves the brain stem and the brain "suffocates" itself due to the swelling. \n\nmore than likely, a ct scan and mri will be done on your friend to determine the amount of brain activity-if there is none-they will more than likely be declared brain dead and family will be consulted on what decision to make.
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One possibility would be frangible ammo, which won't penetrate through walls and is non-toxic (no lead).  I don't know if you can get rubber bullets anywhere, but that may be a bad idea (it would just make the intruder madder).\n\nhttp://www.precisionammo.com/\nhttp://accutecusa.com/\nhttp://www.precisioncartridge.com/frangible.html\nhttp://www.iccammo.com/products.html
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The basic mechanism of a concussion is the brain banging up against the inside of the skull. Think of coffee in a cup in your lap in the car. You hit the brakes hard and the coffee tries to keep going, sloshing out of your cup. When the head under goes a rapid change in direction, the brain continues to travel in the direction it was already going. If it is a sudden stop, it continues to move forward in the cerebral spinal fluid that surrounds it, striking the inside of the skull. \nOversimplifying slightly, this kills a bunch of brain cells. The death of brain cells (and other interruptions in brain function caused by the same basic mechanism) causes the symptoms of loss of consciousness, dizziness, memory loss, "stars in front of the eyes."
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Yes he will be okay. I had a concussion when I was younger and I had a knot on my head the size of a tennis ball. I had to stay awake and under observation at home for at least 24 hours with no sleep because it was a possibility that I could have died if I would've fallen asleep. After the observation period I made it and I was fine after that. If you want more details or more info, you can IM me. My screen name is alicias06.
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It depends on how hard the head was hit.  He/she may just be a little stunned, but if there are any other indications of brain damage, or if the loss of speach persists, you should get him/her to a hospital.  Try asking questions, see if the person understands you, or try to get them to write answers down.\nIf the person's head was hit very hard, don't wait.  When it comes to a person's brain, you shouldn't take any chances.
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If time was stopped, and forces like gravity didn't pull the bullet to the ground, it should be sitting there in mid air and you would be able to touch it.\n\nIt would probably be very hot from the friction from the air and firing it.
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it doesn't sound safe. I don't even know what it is. But if you have to ask, the answer is no.\n\nhuffing kills your brain.
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Maybe.\n\nBullets travel at a speed that is on the order of magntude with the speed of sound -- about 700 m.p.h. or about 1000 feet per second.\n\nAssuming that you begin to dodge at the sight of the muzzle flash and further assuming that you spot the muzzle flash from a sufficient distance, you can dodge the bullet.\n\nAssuming the bullet was heading straight for your heart when shot, you would need to move approximately 12 inches to dodge the bullet.  Most people can accelerate their torso as about 1 foot per sec ^2.  Distance = 1/2 acceleration x t ^ 2\n\nSolving for time: t = sqrt 2 = 1.4 seconds\n\nSo the bullet would need to fired from about 1400 feet away to enable a successful dodge.\n\nAlternatively, you could dodge a bullet shot from closer range, if you can watch the movement of the shooter trigger finger and judge the firing point on the trigger.
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no it is very unlikely to kill them - there is a rare chance it may cause either a torsion or a rupture which  do need medical attention and an even rarer chance they might lose a testicle because of this - if someone was bleeding internally and did not get treatment it is possible they would die \n\nto put it in perspective medical records suggests 2 deaths worldwide from the testicles  being squeezed and ruptured ( 1 in india) in the last 2 years and 10 guys in the USA having surgery for actual ruptured testicles - from various traumas (including mostly car accidents) per year\n\nworldwide probably 10,000, 000 guys at the very least get kicked or hit in the nuts each year - so the risk is around 1 in 1,000,000 that you will suffer a dangerous result - you have around a  1 in 10  chance of dying in an automobile accident, a 1 in 100,000 chnace of being shot or knifed  and a 1 in 1,000,000 chance  of being hit by lightning \n\nif you were punched in the head instead of the nuts you have a 1 in 10,000 chance of being badly concussed and having lasting brain injuries and a 1 in 100,000 chance of death - so the risk for a head punch is 10-100 fold greater!!! \n\nkicking a guy in the nuts is a good way to end a fight and if you are a girl is a very legitimate tactic if a guy is hassling you / a quick kick to the nuts will generally shut a guy up - and it is a lot safer than punching someone in the head!
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It can!\n\nSYMPTOMS OF BRAIN INJURY\n\n\nAny brain function can be disrupted by brain trauma: excessive sleepiness, inattention, difficulty concentrating, impaired memory, faulty judgment, depression, irritability, emotional outbursts, disturbed sleep, diminished libido, difficulty switching between two tasks, and slowed thinking. Sorting out bonafide brain damage from the effects of migraine headaches, pain elsewhere in the body, medications, depression, preoccupation with financial loss, job status, loss of status in the community, loss of status in the family, and any ongoing litigation can be a formibable task.\n The extent and the severity of cognitive neurologic dysfunction can be measured with the aid of neuropsychological testing. Neuropsychologists use their tests to localize dysfunction to specific areas of the brain. For example, the frontal lobes play an essential role in drive, mood, personality, judgment, interpersonal behavior, attention, foresight, and inhibition of inappropriate behavior. The ability to plan properly and execute those plans is known as "executive function." Frontal lobe injury is often associated with damage to the olfactory bulbs beneath the frontal lobes. Patients may note reduced or altered sense of smell. One recent study (Varney 1993) showed that 92% of brain injured patient suffering anosmia (loss of smell) had ongoing problems with employment, even though their neuropsychological testing was relatively normal.\n\nThe effects of brain injury on the patient may be equaled or even surpassed by the effect on the patient's family. Brain injuries are known for causing extreme stressors in family and interpersonal relationships.\n\nIn general, symptoms of traumatic brain injury should lessen over time as the brain heals but sometimes the symptoms worsen because of the patient's inability to adapt to the brain injury. For this and other reasons, it is not uncommon for psychological problems to arise and worsen after brain injury.\n\n\nSYMPTOM CHECKLIST\n\nA wide variety of symptoms can occur after "brain injury." The nature of the symptoms depends, in large part, on where the brain has been injured. Below find a list of possible physical and cognitive symptoms which can arise from damage to specific areas of the brain:\nFrontal Lobe: Forehead \nLoss of simple movement of various body parts (Paralysis). \nInability to plan a sequence of complex movements needed to complete multi-stepped tasks, such as making coffee (Sequencing). \nLoss of spontaneity in interacting with others. \nLoss of flexibility in thinking. \nPersistence of a single thought (Perseveration). \nInability to focus on task (Attending). \nMood changes (Emotionally Labile). \nChanges in social behavior. \nChanges in personality. \nDifficulty with problem solving. \nInability to express language (Broca's Aphasia).\n\nParietal Lobe: near the back and top of the head\n\nInability to attend to more than one object at a time. \nInability to name an object (Anomia). \nInability to locate the words for writing (Agraphia). \nProblems with reading (Alexia). \nDifficulty with drawing objects. \nDifficulty in distinguishing left from right. \nDifficulty with doing mathematics (Dyscalculia). \nLack of awareness of certain body parts and/or surrounding space (Apraxia) that leads to difficulties in self-care. \nInability to focus visual attention. \nDifficulties with eye and hand coordination.\n\nOccipital Lobes: most posterior, at the back of the head\n\nDefects in vision (Visual Field Cuts). \nDifficulty with locating objects in environment. \nDifficulty with identifying colors (Color Agnosia). \nProduction of hallucinations. \nVisual illusions - inaccurately seeing objects. \nWord blindness - inability to recognize words. \nDifficulty in recognizing drawn objects. \nInability to recognize the movement of object (Movement Agnosia). \nDifficulties with reading and writing.\n\nTemporal Lobes: side of head above
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The way your question is worded, there is absolutely no reason why not.  A bullet is a solid object.  A snake is a solid object.  Whether the snake is on land or in water, a bullet that has been shot from a gun has the potential to hit it.  The only reason bullet could not hit something (assuming it's close enough) is if the object were not a solid object or if there is something in the way to stop the bullet from hitting.\n\nA lot of snakes swim on the very top of water (I'm curious to know if there are any that are capable of swimming underwater).  Therefore, what is to stop a bullet from hitting it?  Perhaps you mean hit is the penetrate sense.  Perhaps you are thinking that even if the snake were "hit" with the bullet, the bullet would just push the snake into the water instead of going through it.  Or maybe you are thinking of the snake as underneath the water.  In that case, perhaps the water would slow the bullet down so much that it wouldn't hit.  That is definitely true if the snake is in deep water and you are shooting from the surface.
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Normally you can't fire a bullet in space. Theres no air to burn with the powder.\n\nAssuming you do though, theres nothing to slow the bullet down, it would travel the same speed as it did on earth, and actually further as there is no friction or gravity to slow it down.
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Actually there are cases of casualties and injuries.\n\nMythbusters the show on the discovery channel did an episode about this where they try to see if a bullet fired up into the air can come down and kill you.\n\nHere is a synopsis.\n\nEpisode 50: Bullets Fired Up, Vodka Myths III\n\n    * Bullets fired up into the air can be lethal: busted, plausible, and confirmed.\n  \n\nThe "all of the above" ruling on the bullets fired into the air myth was a new one for MythBusters. All of their tests showed that if you fire a bullet perfectly straight up into the air, it will not kill you as it will fall down on its side and have too low of a terminal velocity to kill, much like the Penny Drop myth. However, it is very difficult to fire perfectly straight into the air and they even found an international expert in falling bullets who was able to confirm for them that people have died from bullets fired up into the air.\nBullets Fired Up\n\nMyth: A bullet fired up can come down and kill you\nHow high would a bullet fly up?\n\nAdam's idea was to correlate the density of ballistics gel with the density of air (Jamie: "Huh."). Adam figured that if they could see how far a bullet traveled in ballistics gel, they could use the difference in density to calculate the distance it would travel through air. Adam calculated that the ballistics gel is 650x more dense than air, so, according to his theory, if a bullet fired into ballistics gel goes 1ft, it would go 650 ft through air. At least that was the theory: they would have to go to the firing range with some blocks of ballistics gel to see if it would work.\n\nThey lined up several blocks of ballistics gel end-on-end at the South San Francisco Police Department firing range (last seen in the Catching a Bullet with Your Teeth myth). They quickly ran into a problem. The 9mm round went through three blocks of ballistics gel for a total distance of about 5ft. The much more powerful .03-06 only went one block in. This wasn't so surprising given the results of the Bulletproof Water myth, though they didn't seem to anticipate the same happening with ballistics gel. The .30-06 rounds travel much faster, so they a greater tendency to break up on impact. Jamie managed to flip a block of ballistics gel with a final shot, finally putting an end to this particular avenue of testing: the ballistics gel was not going to help them figure out how far a bullet would fly up.\n\nBased on the failure of the ballistics gel experiment, they used a computer simulation program to calculate how high the bullets would travel up into the air. The calculations: *.03-6 10,000 ft 58 seconds\n\n    * 9mm 4,000 ft, 37 seconds\n\nTerminal velocity of a falling bullet\n\nAdam built an acrylic wind tunnel (much like the one in the Penny Drop myth). Air was shot up through the bottom and a bullet was dropped into the chamber. The terminal velocity was calculated based on the speed of the air needed to make the bullet stop falling. They figured that the terminal velocity was 100mph (150 ft/s). The wind tunnel also showed that the most stable falling position for the bullets was on their side.\nFiring bullets at terminal velocity\n\nThe rigged up an air hose to an aluminum pipe to launch the bullets at terminal velocity (150 ft/s). Their first shot put a good dent in the metal door. Their next target would be a pig's head, just as soon as they got the amount of air pressure tuned correctly. A chronograph was used to measure the speed of the bullet and a solenoid valve was attached to the tube to control the air flow.\n\nThey fired bullets from the pipe into the pig's head and recorded it all on the high-speed camera. At 166 ft/s, the 9mm bullet bounced right off of the pig's head. The .30-06 bullet did only slightly better, piercing the skin and then bouncing off.\n\nIt was looking like this was going to be busted, but, as it turns out, there is an international expert on falling bullet