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Guessing by lethal shockwaves are from relatively small explosions (like packets of C4), I'm going to go ahead and guess the energy dispersed from this would ea
by whamlastxmas 8y ago
Guessing by lethal shockwaves are from relatively small explosions (like packets of C4), I'm going to go ahead and guess the energy dispersed from this would easily shatter all the concrete of the bunker and instantly kill anything living.
- darkpuma 8y agoMaybe, but I'm not convinced. With enough velocity, a ping pong ball can blow a clean neat circular hole straight through a ping pong paddle. Fast moving objects can cause extremely localized damage. On the other hand if you shoot a fast at a plastic jug full of water, an incompressible fluid, it will shred the water jug specifically because that water is incompressible. Fill the jug with air or sand and you'll then find that the jug remains intact when you shoot it, save for two bullet-sized holes through both sides. If the tungsten rod is able to borrow through hundreds of meters of bedrock, it seems to me that's a sufficiently efficient penetrator that it might 'ice pick' straight through the target bunker dumping only a small fraction of it's energy into the bunker, as it then goes deeper through more bedrock.
- whamlastxmas 8y agoYour ping pong ball example is fairly counter to everything I've ever seen but I'm no physicist. I would be very surprised if there's any velocity that would put the ball through the paddle without completely destroying both