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• xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m not a Physicist but since they have the same momentum, the marble will have a higher velocity. Let us assume the bowling ball weighs 6000 gm and the marble weighs 20 gm (average weight), the velocity ratio of the marble to bowling ball is 300:1 (300 times faster).

  If we assume that both of them are made of the same material, and you throw the bowling ball at 1 m/s, then the marble is launched at nearly Mach 1. I’m pretty sure it will create a neat hole in the bowling ball.

  I could be very wrong as well.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They shatter. And everyone in the vicinity dies from shrapnel.

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  • udon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Would you rather get hit by bowling ball shrapnel or marble shrapnel?

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    • And009@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How far am I from the collision?

      I’ll take a Taco

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      • udon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Let me put this differently:

        You’re standing at a lever that can influence the direction of the shrapnel. If you do nothing, 5 people will get hit with bowling ball shrapnel and 1 person with marble shrapnel. If you pull the lever, 5 people will get hit with marble shrapnel and 1 person with bowling ball shrapnel.

        What do you do?

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