• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    28 days ago

    “Help, help! Break the f—king window,” he yells as Good Samaritans rushed over. One of the witnesses helped carry Doherty out of wreck while the 20-year-old continued to film himself.

    Purely theoretical question. Just how big a catapult would you have to build to actually launch an average sized human male into the sun?

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      28 days ago

      I asked the Guh-Puh-Tuh monster to break it down like Randall Munroe and the results were surprisingly amusing.

      The short version is that the catapult needs to be many, many kilometers long, the human will be liquefied almost immediately, and there are much better ways to get to the Sun—namely, rockets.

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        Well I’m not seeing any obvious downsides and it is at least reusable, which would likely come in very handy over the next few years.