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Earlier today, FarmTech, a food company subsidiary to the Resi Corporation, released three new drinks into the open market. These drinks, known as Nanoshakes, contain flavored juices, milk, artifical flavoring, and most importantly microscopic nanomachines. These nanomachines, comprised entirely of various proteans, circulate through the drinker's system and proform various tasks, depending on the flavor the user drinks.

So, without further adeu, we present to you the flavors!

Bullet-Time Berry Blend!
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Flavor: A mix of raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and white grape juice
Ammnt. in One Carton: 1/2 gallon
Price: $50.00
Nano: The nanomachines in Bullet-Time Berry Blend go straight to key areas of the nervous system and the eyes, connecting themselves between nerves or even replacing the nerves themselves and acting as conduits between the cells, exchanging chemical and electrical impulses between them faster than the cells could ever do on their own. In the eyes they widen passages for blood and enhance the linse, cleaning and perfecting the whole structure. This gives up to a 10,000% increase in reaction time (8,000% in most cases), and allows a user to actually dodge bullets as they are fired at them, or even catch bullets if they have the muscle mass and are wearing strong enough gloves. A bullet moving at 500 mph is reduced to a mere 6 inches a second while under the effects of this drink.

Buffout Banana!
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Flavor: Banana plup, pineapple, white grape juice
Ammnt. in One Carton: 1/2 gallon
Price: $50.00
Nano: After drinking Buffout Banana, nanomachines travel directly from the user's gut to their muscular system. On arrival, they begin to create miniature tears in the muscle that they spread with a healing agent, in effect increasing muscle mass dramatically over time. These nanomachines will also break down fat if they encounter it, but one should note that fat cells aren't their primary target.

Brain-Boostin' Watermellon!
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Flavor: Watermellon, Cherry, Strawberry, white grape juice
Ammnt. in One Carton: 1/2 gallon
Price: $50.00
Nano: Again, this drink target's the user's nervous system, but different parts. Instead of increasing the reaction, Brain-Boostin' Watermellon increases the drinker's thinking power and learning ability using the same conduit system described above, but with a different set of nerves.

These products will soon be available in your local grocer's juice isle, and are currently available for special government bulk order.

((OOC EDIT: Stats needed fixing. Personally, I think they're even sketchier now, but whatever.))

OOC: It all seems very uber-advanced to me, but I do have to comment on something.

If you have a 500% increase in reaction time, your nervous system will fire 5 times faster, giving you a reaction time of about half that of a common housefly. This will not actually slow time down, not increase your muscle's movement speed, nor increase your reaction time such that you can actually dodge a bullet. If a rifle fires a SUB-SONIC round, say 500 mph, and the average human can react to one thing every 1/15th of a second (actual fact), then a 500% increase in information processing would allow you to react to one thing every 1/75th of a second. A SUB-SONIC bullet will cover almost 10 ft in that amount of time, making it still near impossible to dodge bullets intentionally, seeing as a human running (this is assuming a human can accelerate to full speed without delay) can cover, at best, 6 inches in that amount of time (assuming your soldiers can run at 27 mph, nearly the world record).

What does this translate to? A rifleman standing close enough for your soldier to actually see the bullet, or determine with reasonable accuracy the course of the bullet (say 100 ft), would be able to cover, in a more realistic manner, say initial acceleration to 4mph, 2mph every second following, around 9 inches, not enough for a bullet to completely miss a soldier, even if he reacts instantly. Likewise, the human arm cannot move fast enough to catch a bullet traveling from an equal distance.

Finally, if you want to suppose a greater distance, you have to take into account the fact that your soldiers do not have super-vision and cannot see or determine the angle and trajectory of, a bullet. Thus, at ranges where some form of dodging might be possible, the dodging is left up to luck anyway.

OOC: It all seems very uber-advanced to me, but I do have to comment on something.

If you have a 500% increase in reaction time, your nervous system will fire 5 times faster, giving you a reaction time of about half that of a common housefly. This will not actually slow time down, not increase your muscle's movement speed, nor increase your reaction time such that you can actually dodge a bullet. If a rifle fires a SUB-SONIC round, say 500 mph, and the average human can react to one thing every 1/15th of a second (actual fact), then a 500% increase in information processing would allow you to react to one thing every 1/75th of a second. A SUB-SONIC bullet will cover almost 10 ft in that amount of time, making it still near impossible to dodge bullets intentionally, seeing as a human running (this is assuming a human can accelerate to full speed without delay) can cover, at best, 6 inches in that amount of time (assuming your soldiers can run at 27 mph, nearly the world record).

What does this translate to? A rifleman standing close enough for your soldier to actually see the bullet, or determine with reasonable accuracy the course of the bullet (say 100 ft), would be able to cover, in a more realistic manner, say initial acceleration to 4mph, 2mph every second following, around 9 inches, not enough for a bullet to completely miss a soldier, even if he reacts instantly. Likewise, the human arm cannot move fast enough to catch a bullet traveling from an equal distance.

Finally, if you want to suppose a greater distance, you have to take into account the fact that your soldiers do not have super-vision and cannot see or determine the angle and trajectory of, a bullet. Thus, at ranges where some form of dodging might be possible, the dodging is left up to luck anyway.
((OOC: So what you're saying is that I need to change the stats. Okay, fair enough. I'll probably have to make nanomachines REPLACE certain nerves to get a good enough reaction time, but if that's what it takes...))

OOC: Comrades, they already have a drink just like this... http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/front/bawls_2up.jpg

Bawls... Bawls.

((OOC: So what you're saying is that I need to change the stats. Okay, fair enough. I'll probably have to make nanomachines REPLACE certain nerves to get a good enough reaction time, but if that's what it takes...))

OOC: No, what I'm saying is that the human body cannot move fast enough to dodge bullets.

Now in a knife fight, this is a completely diffrent matter.

OOC: No, what I'm saying is that the human body cannot move fast enough to dodge bullets.

Now in a knife fight, this is a completely diffrent matter.
((OOC: Which is why they drink our other drinks. I already had that last part figured out. ;) ))

OOC:
You'd also need to make the muscles themselves contract faster, which would requior a total overhaul or replacment. And modify the joints, or you'll be busting them constantly and even rapidly wear them out if you can avoid destroying them outright. Same with tendons and ligiments. And you should probally make the muscle tissue itself more resilent while your at it. And increase the blood's ability to transport oxygen, and probally the amount of that chemical fuel that cells store that doesn't produce lactic acid when used anarobicly - otherwise they'll get damn sore damn quick as lactic acid builds up.

Oh, and Resi? Please stop ignoring your own threads. It doesn't exactly endear you to your fellow roleplayers.

http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=394061

OOC: I'm saying that a human beiong, regardless of top speed, can't accelerate to a high enough speed fast enough for him/her to dode a bullet. Muscle mass isn't everything, nor is top speed.

My calculations were done assuming a person can go from 0-4mph in .013 of a second. Not likely, heh. Even if you could get someone to accelerate that fast, they wouldn't be able to dodge bullets at long or short range, and not if the shots were dead-on. Plus, I'm figuring sub-sonic weapons are being used.