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Fun fact about this in real life: A problem that gunmakers have had to deal with is that, although a faster-moving bullet fires straighter and penetrates better into its target, if the bullet moves *too* fast it will just poke a hole straight through a person without imparting enough of its kinetic energy onto them to be able to do real damage.That is simply not true. All you have to do is design your projectile in shape, construction and materials so the kinetic energy gets properly used to cause damage to the target. A tiny 40 grain .204 Ruger bullet with the absolutely insane muzzle velocity of 4100 fps will absolutely explode a watermelon if you use a rapidly expanding projectile such as a basic tipped varmint round. As a matter of fact, the problem you can recounted with projectiles that go too fast is that they will over expand and under penetrate depending on the nature of the target.
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Pure theory, likely never ever going to be real, but could a bullet move so fast that it goes through someone without even damaging them?No, but it travels fast enough it would disintegrate and you could argue the resulting fireball would be what actually damaged the target. [Relevant XKCD.](https://youtu.be/3EI08o-IGYk)
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Terminal velocity for a human is not fast enough to cause air to heat up. You'd probably get frostburn instead.
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Pure theory, likely never ever going to be real, but could a bullet move so fast that it goes through someone without even damaging them?Any matter going through you with that much mass is going to cause damage no matter how fast it goes. Billions of particles called neutrinos are moving through you right now as you read this but they are around 100,000,000,000,000x less massive than a hydrogen atom
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So, yes and no. Acceleration due to gravity impacts all objects equally. With no air resistance, on earth, everything speeds up at 9.8m/s/s. But, that "no air resistance" is a big asterisk. This is why, say, parachutes work. It's also how we get terminal velocity. Often misinterpreted as "how fast you'd have to go to die from a fall" it's actually "how fast you need to go before the drag from your air resistance is a force greater than or equal to gravity"
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Pure theory, likely never ever going to be real, but could a bullet move so fast that it goes through someone without even damaging them?
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So, yes and no. Acceleration due to gravity impacts all objects equally. With no air resistance, on earth, everything speeds up at 9.8m/s/s. But, that "no air resistance" is a big asterisk. This is why, say, parachutes work. It's also how we get terminal velocity. Often misinterpreted as "how fast you'd have to go to die from a fall" it's actually "how fast you need to go before the drag from your air resistance is a force greater than or equal to gravity"
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Right. That all makes sense. So the air resistance is what is also causing it to heat up. I still don’t see why a person wouldn’t do that.So, multiple options here. Skydivers regularly hit terminal velocity, as fast as they'll go in atmosphere, before pulling their chutes. At these speeds, heat from friction isn't enough to worry about. Once again though, if you're coming down from space, that "in atmosphere" asterisk goes away. If you're dropping from a satellite, you're going at speeds necessary to orbit, and you don't have anything slowing you down until you hit the atmosphere. Suddenly your terminal velocity is way lower than infinity, and the friction you're feeling from the atmosphere is INTENSE, rapidly turning that speed into heat
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So, multiple options here. Skydivers regularly hit terminal velocity, as fast as they'll go in atmosphere, before pulling their chutes. At these speeds, heat from friction isn't enough to worry about. Once again though, if you're coming down from space, that "in atmosphere" asterisk goes away. If you're dropping from a satellite, you're going at speeds necessary to orbit, and you don't have anything slowing you down until you hit the atmosphere. Suddenly your terminal velocity is way lower than infinity, and the friction you're feeling from the atmosphere is INTENSE, rapidly turning that speed into heat
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That is simply not true. All you have to do is design your projectile in shape, construction and materials so the kinetic energy gets properly used to cause damage to the target. A tiny 40 grain .204 Ruger bullet with the absolutely insane muzzle velocity of 4100 fps will absolutely explode a watermelon if you use a rapidly expanding projectile such as a basic tipped varmint round. As a matter of fact, the problem you can recounted with projectiles that go too fast is that they will over expand and under penetrate depending on the nature of the target.I get the feeling the 4 million grain Revolving Peasant Gun with the velocity of 1% the speed of light will have the desired effect on any target.
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... the death star orbits. The timer for the rebels to blow it up in a New Hope was how long its orbit would take to clear the moon in its path to the rebel base. The battle of endor was fought over the new death star in orbit over the moon. Yes, the death star is capable of warp, but that just puts it into orbit over different things.Yes it orbits in the movies, that doesn't conflict with anything I said. I'm describing a scenario where it doesn't (which doesn't happen in the movies).
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If a character has 121hp or more they're able to jump from a space station onto earth with like a super hero landing??
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If a character has 121hp or more they're able to jump from a space station onto earth with like a super hero landing??Yes. ODST-Dropping your barbarian is objectively the best way to have him enter combat, and it inflicts psychological damage to anyone close enough to witness it.
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I get the feeling the 4 million grain Revolving Peasant Gun with the velocity of 1% the speed of light will have the desired effect on any target.
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Well I'm being tongue in cheek, but I don't see how a peasant travelling at a significant fraction of the speed of light will not obliterate anything he hits (along with himself)
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Yes it orbits in the movies, that doesn't conflict with anything I said. I'm describing a scenario where it doesn't (which doesn't happen in the movies).
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Your example was for a space station that doesn't orbit and you used the death star for that, which does orbit. Does that make sense to you? Cause it's baffling meNo, it was not an example of a station station that doesn't orbit. It was an example of a mobile space station. Feel free to reread my comment.
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... the death star orbits. The timer for the rebels to blow it up in a New Hope was how long its orbit would take to clear the moon in its path to the rebel base. The battle of endor was fought over the new death star in orbit over the moon. Yes, the death star is capable of warp, but that just puts it into orbit over different things.
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That is simply not true. All you have to do is design your projectile in shape, construction and materials so the kinetic energy gets properly used to cause damage to the target. A tiny 40 grain .204 Ruger bullet with the absolutely insane muzzle velocity of 4100 fps will absolutely explode a watermelon if you use a rapidly expanding projectile such as a basic tipped varmint round. As a matter of fact, the problem you can recounted with projectiles that go too fast is that they will over expand and under penetrate depending on the nature of the target.This is simply true, you do lose potential energy transfer if the bullet exits, that's how it can exit, that's just not usually the point of a bullet, and generally speaking making exit wounds is considered a positive. Now if you want to design a bullet that explodes inside a wound causing mass trauma and an incredibly difficult surgery to repair it is a problem, but surely no one would ever deliberately design a weapon to do that! /S Fun Fact: the .50 cal MGs the Soviets supplied to the Vietnamese during the American invasion usually had enough penetrative power to go through the M137 APC's aluminum hull... Once. And then it would bounce around inside.
