What would happen if Natani impacted Mekkan?

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#16 Post by JC the Supreme Tiger »

Here's another question, possibly more story related...

How much energy did Natani expend, sucking all of the atmospheric oxygen out of the room when putting out the fire in 639, assuming the Mekkan atmosphere has a 30% oxygen atmosphere and at standard temperature and pressure?

I'll do the math if no one else does.

Maybe this would be more appropriate in the ranting board?
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Re: What would happen if Natani impacted Mekkan?

#17 Post by Darkfur »

(Assuming 90 Kilograms.)

Okay, lets start off at a comfortable .01c (or 3,000 km/s, 1% the speed of light), as Wolfram|Alpha helpfully points out, Natani would release the equivalent of 97 kilotons of TNT. For reference, this would be about the same amount of energy as a W76 Thermonuclear Warhead.

A little higher, at .1c (or 30,000 km/s, 10% the speed of light), Natani would release the equivalent of 9.7 Megatons of TNT. For reference, this would be about the same amount of energy as a B53 nuclear bomb, the most powerful nuclear warhead in the US arsenal.

Now lets jump up to .9c. Natani is now moving at 270,000 km/s or 90% the speed of light. At these speeds, the energy released would be the equivalent of 780 Megatons of TNT, far larger than any nuclear device ever created (by over 15 times), and the equivalent of an earthquake registering 9.1 on the Richter scale.

At .999c, or 299,500 km/s, or 99.9% the speed of light, Natani would release 965 Megatons of TNT, a Gigaton of TNT, the equivalent of an earthquake of 9.2 on the Richter scale.


Now, the fastest particles ever observed, the appropriately named Oh-My-God particles, travel at an approximate speed of 0.9999999999999999999999951c. If Natani somehow managed to piss off something strong enough to fling her at these speeds, she would impact Mekkan and release... 966 Megatons of TNT. Not much higher, but still...

Natani wouldn't be walking away from this.

(Fun fact: The fastest man-made object on earth would be a simple shaft cover. Or, at least, it would be a simple shaft cover if it didn't weight 900 kilograms and wasn't propelled by a 600 ton nuclear detonation to an estimated speed of 22 km/s)
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Re: What would happen if Natani impacted Mekkan?

#18 Post by DariusL »

Darkfur wrote:(Fun fact: The fastest man-made object on earth would be a simple shaft cover. Or, at least, it would be a simple shaft cover if it didn't weight 900 kilograms and wasn't propelled by a 600 ton nuclear detonation to an estimated speed of 22 km/s)
Ah yes, that's when they accidentally discovered the Thunderwell. That thing never even landed back on earth, it just shot up through the atmosphere and out into space.

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