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22237: RE: [MUD-Dev] Source data on Crossbow

rayzam posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:30 AM

> I wonder if it's possible to be psychosomatic. Is there enough
> time to know you've been shot, to then fall over? It shouldn't be
> too hard to measure this time and compare it to reflexes and
> conscious actions: Find 25 people, tell them to fall when they
> hear a shot go off [but don't shoot them!].

> It's all a matter of timing..

Then there's that bizarre effect wherein people who have had guns
fired at them (with no bullets in the chamber) died anyway, because
they thought they would die...so they did.

Happens to small animals too.  Rayzam can probably explain this
better than I. :)

Mike "Talien" Tresca
RetroMUD Administrator
http://www.retromud.org/talien

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