For the same reason this baseball causes an expanding plasma-ball disintegrating everything. Fusion with air molecules that can’t get out of the way fast enough what-if.xkcd.com/1/
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lefixxx@lemmy.world 2 months agoWhy explode, the car didn’t accelerate or interact with the continent
rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Even ignoring the tires interacting with the road, you have air molecules.
Here is a cool What If?" from xkcd about throwing a baseball at 0.9c.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sound like a ton worth of mass would do a lot of damage indeed
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wow, that seems to be the very first What If ever!