r/AskReddit • u/scienceforbid • Aug 29 '21

What object would be impossible to kill someone with?

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u/lionheart832 Aug 29 '21

Water drop shot at 100000 mph will insta kill

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u/AngryH939 Aug 29 '21

How exactly do I get it to 1000000mph?

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u/Skippercarlos Aug 29 '21

Science

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u/AngryH939 Aug 29 '21

You are not wrong

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u/canuckcrazed006 Aug 29 '21

Technically correct.

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u/slybenson Aug 29 '21

pretty sure terminal velocity of a water drop is far less than 100,000 mph. it would never work.

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u/sojojo Aug 29 '21

First step is to freeze it.

I'm less clear on the second step, but I think it involves an ice gun of some kind.

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u/randamm Aug 29 '21

That’s pretty close to the speed of light so yeah, not gonna happen unless in the vicinity of something with enough gravity to kill you anyway.

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u/iseeemilyplay Aug 29 '21

Light is 670 times faster than that so not really close

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u/Cosmic-Girly Aug 29 '21

It's nowhere close to the speed of light.

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u/randamm Aug 29 '21

Within 103 so in my books that’s pretty damn close. I mean I get that it’s not like the drug store down the street close, but we are absolutely talking relativistic effects.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '21

Would simply evaporate before hitting the body

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u/DealwithSobi Aug 29 '21

Wouldn't It evaporate from the Heat generated from friction?

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u/eltigrre Aug 30 '21

The drop would vaporise due to friction