When shot at with a 50 cal rifle
 

Be 3-5 feet under water. You will not get hurt....it was just on mythbusters. Appearently, being 3 feet or more underwater, you are safe, even from armor piercing rounds.

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Hmmmm...good to know.

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which is why all those movies (like Saving Private Ryan) where people get shot under water are not realistic.
But they're still pretty cool.

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Ya, this fact really blew my mind, after seeing all those movies...you see this huge gun not do [censored] when it hits 2 feet of water.....it was a def wtf moment

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This is kind of amazing and cool.

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Now to invent my 3-5ft thick water shield.

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There's a reason why cops use big tanks of water to fire bullets into. Didn't anyone besides me go on a tour of a police station when they were a kid?

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I'm racking my brain, trying to think about how you can shoot into a tank of water without shooting down. That doesn't seem like it would be too important to a cop.

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I'm racking my brain, trying to think about how you can shoot into a tank of water without shooting down. That doesn't seem like it would be too important to a cop.

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aye actually, i guess i just never thought of it, but ballistic tests are done in tanks of water....

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I'm racking my brain, trying to think about how you can shoot into a tank of water without shooting down. That doesn't seem like it would be too important to a cop.

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The tanks I've seen are basically long metal troughs. They fire at a shallow angle, just like Mythbusters did.

Freakin