Whichever is most likely to kill me at its velocity
You have to pick one
Submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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renamon_silver@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
B312@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you okay
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, you cold just shove the marbles down your throat, but failing that… I know what it’s like to hope that someone pummels you to death with a bowling ball. I hope you don’t genuinely feel that way, but if you do, there are people here - myself included - who would be happy to offer advice to try and not feel that way.
And that goes to anyone else reading this who feels that way: no matter where you are in your head, there’s a way out of the darkness. Take it from someone who’s been there ❤️
uberfreeza@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i legitimately am not in a good emotional/mental place so i do appreciate that
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
If they both have the minimum energy to kill you, the marble will probably do it faster.
redlemace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
no I don’t
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They have the same momentum (the marble will kill you)
GreatRam@lemmy.world 2 months ago
(The bowlingball will also kill you)
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
A bowling ball imparted with the momentum from a slingshot won’t even have the energy to stay air-borne.
The marble imparted with the momentum from a slingshot will fracture or even penetrate your skull.
Momentum is m*v. However, kinetic energy is (1/2)m*v^2, where the velocity is providing exponentially more to the equation.
udon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What happens if you shoot them against each other with the same momentum?
xavier666@lemm.ee 2 months 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.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They shatter. And everyone in the vicinity dies from shrapnel.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This is what I assumed. Assuming its non-injurious, the marble will sting a lot more, on the other hand, I’d be under a bowling ball (or holding it.)
If its at a significantly injurious amount of momentum, there is no right answer.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
The bowling ball, because there are 9 other guys with me and were standing in a triangular pattern.
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We get it you have friends, Geez!
I hope someone knocks this guy and their friends on their arses.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What is the velocity of each one?
A slow moving bowling ball causes little to no damage.
A marble fired at around half the speed of light might do some damage.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
How far are you from the source?
A ways away, I’m not worried about the bowling ball, but that marble will fucking end you.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I choose to imagine they both have equal kinetic energy.
debil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
By the blueberry with a surprised look on the left. Aim at my mouth please.
crawancon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
8 o
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I think you need to see a doctor for that unattached tip
Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Both are moving just under Mach 1
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Oh so the real question is: would you rather die by musket or cannon?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Everything is moving at just under Mach 1 if your scale is from zero to lightspeed.
Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Or if your frame of reference isn’t the same as the object
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then the marble. It would leave a smaller hole.
huquad@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The bowling ball. Cause fuckem that’s why
esc27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are the pictures to scale,
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is the relative force and distance the same for each? Are they rolled at you?
The bowling ball has more friction so at the same force would be less when it reached you.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
The bowling ball has a lower friction to mass ratio and will therefore slow down less
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Assuming perfect spheres there is similar or the same friction with the surface for both and much larger air resistance for the bowling ball.
Mass doesn’t matter because it is a component of Force which is initially equal for both. The acceleration and speed will be different for both to make forces equal.
The bowling ball will lose more of the force than the marble regardless of which slows down faster.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If they’re being launched by the same spring mechanism you’re better off with the bowling ball than a little glass bullet.
redlemace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depends, how tight is the spring? At high velocity i’d guess a marble will penetrate the body, where at low velocity a marbel would be easier to stop
deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I think they’ll both be exactly the same difficulty to stop due to conservation of energy. If the spring used is the same for both the bowling ball and the marble, the bowling ball is going to be going much, much slower than the marble.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And a low velocity marble would translate to a bowling ball bumping into your toe, so I’m not sure what you think the advantage would be there
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I think that spring still leaves ambiguity. A very thick, powerful spring like that in an ejection seat could probably get the bowling ball airborne, but wouldn’t actually impart anywhere near the same amount of energy on the marble.
A small elastic band like that used in a slingshot on the other hand would have difficulty getting the bowling ball to fly at all but could turn the marble into a bullet.