Flying bullets are a serious problem if you are in their potential path. Whether you are a policeman caught in a shoot out or a public figure out in the open at the podium it only takes on one bullet to ruin your whole day. If you are in combat and looking around a corner a sniper is looking to take out your head and make you dead. Your entire life will be over in an instant and your family will never see you again. Well they might see your pine box and personal effects but that is about all.
Bullets are made to kill people, that is their job and what they were designed to do. If you are the target of an incoming bullet your reflexes are not fast enough to move quickly enough to avoid it, so a new system is needed to prevent a collision with your soft human shell. In the future there will be systems, which will instantly deploy in the event of an incoming or multiple incoming rounds. How is this possible you ask? How can one eliminate an incoming bullet?
Well anything moving that fast creates shock waves and although very small, they can be detected. By putting out sensors in a grid pattern around the area you wish to protect they will form a spider web set of nodes or motes and be in contact with each other, when something pierces through a grid these units will cause an immediate alert and using light to send a signal will electronically put up a shield at the podium where the speaker is instantly.
Since the bullet moves closer to the speed of sound, the speed of light transmission will get their first and put up the barricade and the speaker can simply continue as if nothing every happened, while the authorities track down the bad guy based on the direction of travel of the bullet backwards to his location. The threat will be eliminated and the individual is safe. A similar system can be used to protect base camps and tent cities for our troops in the battle space. Think on this in 2006.
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