Comment on Would it be possible to model 9/11 using hot dogs for the planes?

diphthong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• solomonschuler@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  but accelerating that hot dog to the speed of light and you could probably do some damage…

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  • Krusty@quokk.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    0.67 percent the speed of light would be enough. That’s mach 5800, or 2000 km/s. A 50g hot dog would have around 10^11 J kinetic energy.

    If you accelerated a 50g hot dog to 10 percent light speed you’d probably have enough energy there to destroy civilization.

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