Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh?

• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s okay, an overestimate provides a bracket: human pitcher not enough, cannon too much. Then it’s a matter of reducing the parameters until they’re barely enough to put the ball through the pitcher.

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I was thinking that might be the case, but I’m not sure what would get us closer to the minimum force required to punch holes in someone.

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  • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have an idea. We take the richest person in the world, and gradually shoot them with faster and faster baseballs until we have an answer. If, by unlucky circumstances, the person should perish, we take the next richest person.

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Great idea! Using real people would just be cruel.

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    • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What if the previous wounds affect the next shot? You’d need a control with the 2nd richest to confirm the target speed with a fresh impact still does it.

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      • Fluke@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m ok with this.

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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As long as their dimensions are identical, the actual force of a cannonball or a baseball hitting a body isn’t dramatically different, as it’s determined how much force the body can withstand until it’s penetrated. – By measuring the initial velocity and the velocity of the ball leaving the body after penetration, you can calculate the energy required to punch a hole through thad body.

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