Scientists discovers why the cowboy who draws first also dies

WHEN physicist Niels Bohr watched westerns, he noticed that the cowboy who drew his gun first and so had an advantage, was often the one shot.

The Nobel laureate's favoured solution to his "gunslinger's paradox" has now been confirmed in part: people move faster when reacting than when they initiate the same actions.

Such reactive responses are about 21 milliseconds quicker than planned actions, according to research. It means that the gunslinger who draws last, draws faster. But it does not mean that you should wait for your opponent to move first. While drawing and shooting might take less time, any advantage is lost by the 200 milliseconds it takes the brain to notice that the enemy has gone for his gun.

"You'd still be the one who gets shot, but you'd at least die satisfied that you were faster," said Andrew Welchman, of the University of Birmingham, who led the study, which was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

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Pardon me, but this is bullshit. In movies, the bad guy always draws first because he cheats and the good guy kills him anyway because he is such a bad dude. Anybody knows that!

Your not suggesting that all this taxpayers money has been wasted on an incorrect conclusion?

It is an excellent example of how people who over-intellectualize matters often get things completely wrong.

imo OTB is often like a gun fight with one person drawing a conclusion too quickly then making a post that in is like shooting himself in the foot. case in point in a different thread i clearly stated that a friend had sent me a message and that i was sharing his message but one of the gun slingers immediatly drew the conclusion that it was my comment. what i found even funnier was later, the same gun slinger was slagging the US education system and asking a poster if he could read. I got a couple of good laughs from this fighter yesterday. He even went as far as to inform me my cap setting on my comp was locked but if he could read before drawing he may have saved himself the trouble of shooting off.

So much for trying to introduce a non-controversial post, one of my stalkers has arrived.

UG, I think the article is about studying reaction times in humans, not necessarily a waste of lab time.

I probably tend to be more to the side of the "there's no such thing as wasted knowledge camp" though.

Remember the space program did come up with Velcro!

Are you sure that you are a liberal? They got Velcro from the dead aliens they found at Roswell. In some more enlightened circles, that is considered common knowledge.

Aww shoot.

That's what I get for trying to talk to better informed people.

So much for trying to introduce a non-controversial post, ...

That's the best contribution you've made to a topic in recent memory.

Keep up the good work.

I always that you were a Mr. Mellow Sensible Guy. You are getting feisty in your old age!

I always that you were a Mr. Mellow Sensible Guy. You are getting feisty in your old age!

There was nothing derogatory in my response to koheesti's post.

It was short, to the point and left me in no doubt what he thought of my statement with out being offensive.

Well....... not very offensive....

Well....... not very offensive....

You're getting closer.

Aww shoot.

That's what I get for trying to talk to better informed people.

Posting on here is sometimes like walking out into the dusty street of a cowboy town in the midday heat, freshly cleaned six-guns ready, waiting for your opponent to turn up.

Suddenly, you are cut down in a hail of sniper rifle fire from all windows and buildings on the high street.

Aww shoot.

That's what I get for trying to talk to better informed people.

Posting on here is sometimes like walking out into the dusty street of a cowboy town in the midday heat, freshly cleaned six-guns ready, waiting for your opponent to turn up.

Suddenly, you are cut down in a hail of sniper rifle fire from all windows and buildings on the high street.

Other times it's like like the demise of Bonny and Clyde; you're strolling along minding your own business and suddenly you're cut down by machine gun fire from all sides.

Thankfully, the snipers come from the same country as the army that is world famous for deaths by friendly fire. Seems to be a national trait.

That's the best contribution you've made to a topic in recent memory.

Keep up the good work.

I couldn't find the smiley for irony so I just went with roll eyes.

That's the best contribution you've made to a topic in recent memory.

Keep up the good work.

I couldn't find the smiley for irony so I just went with roll eyes.

I suspected it was too good to be true.

So much for trying to introduce a non-controversial post, one of my stalkers has arrived.

UG, I think the article is about studying reaction times in humans, not necessarily a waste of lab time.

I probably tend to be more to the side of the "there's no such thing as wasted knowledge camp" though.

Remember the space program did come up with Velcro!

Don't forget the zero gravity ball point pen. Though I wish they hadn't invented that one as it dogs me to this day. Whenever my wife is upset with me I get the "Oh you Americans are sooo smart, you spend 100 Billion (not many years ago it was five million, don't know the actual cost) for a pen to write in space, but those stupid Rush ee yans, they used a pencil for free." She may have a point there.

The truth to the old gunslingers fable is there were VERY few, if any, fair fights. Most often it was some low life who could shoot straighter, drawing his gun and shooting some awkward cowboy who was ill prepared in a gun battle.

"Son, don't take your gun to town..."

"...Nothing was sacred except staying alive."

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they used a pencil

Still beaten by lead poisoning

they used a pencil

Still beaten by lead poisoning

It's a myth that they used a pencil. You can't use a pencil as bits of the lead would float around and get clogged in all sorts of components. The fact is that they just used a normal ball-point pen as it works perfectly fine in zero gravity.

they used a pencil

Still beaten by lead poisoning

It's a myth that they used a pencil. You can't use a pencil as bits of the lead would float around and get clogged in all sorts of components. The fact is that they just used a normal ball-point pen as it works perfectly fine in zero gravity.

That's good information/ammo, thanks. I can't quite make out that last sentence. Probably wouldn't be useful to me anyway.

A normal ball-point pen works in space.