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Hehe, Ultimate Siggy there Mather

 

On an unrelated note:

Pieis, have you ever managed to hurt yourself on a completely harmless object and/or behaved like a hyped-up psycho in public?

Nothing is completely harmless, and no.

[The Dark Lord]

Nex, why you report my pic? First you report me for discussing creamy [rooster] (video game item) and now this. You hate me. QQ

[Jehosaphat]

Pieis, have you ever managed to hurt yourself on a completely harmless object and/or behaved like a hyped-up psycho in public?

For the first, it's not exactly harmless then, is it? (But to answer the question, yes, I have injured myself on objects others would deem "harmless".)

 

The second one, definitely yes.

[The_Mather1]

In that case you are a complete nutjob, welcome to the circle.

 

I'd say a marshmallow is as harmless as you can get, you can't even suffocate by choking on one since dissolves pretty fast.

[Earth]

You set yourself on fire with a marshmallow, remeber?

[Iconic]

I'd say a marshmallow is as harmless as you can get, you can't even suffocate by choking on one since dissolves pretty fast.

 

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/parental/chubbybunny.asp

[The_Mather1]

I didn't set myself on fire, I got sprayed with boiling sugar.

 

And Hex, we're talking single objects, in which marshmallows are even more harmless than grains of sand, if you get shot in the head with a single grain of sand then you'll become braindead or at least lose some motoric functions/speach/memory, if you get shot in the head with a marshmallow you might get a small bruise.

[Jehosaphat]

I didn't set myself on fire, I got sprayed with boiling sugar.

 

And Hex, we're talking single objects, in which marshmallows are even more harmless than grains of sand, if you get shot in the head with a single grain of sand then you'll become braindead or at least lose some motoric functions/speach/memory, if you get shot in the head with a marshmallow you might get a small bruise.

You forget the Rule of Excessive Speed: If you get something solid going fast enough, it will eventually reach the point where it can crack a skull. This is, of course, assuming that there isn't substantial air resistance. So, if you put marshmallows through some form of continual accelerator in space, then launch them at some poor astronaut, then with enough time, energy, and marshmallows, you could find the speed required for a marshmallow to break open a man's skull with no air resistance.

 

Of course, that's all theoretics. However, on the non-theoretic side of things, if you manage to get a grain of sand going at a speed high enough to cause brain damage, then a marshmallow going at that speed would at least cause a substantial bruise, if not more - and that's not including possible burns from the marshmallow melting due to air resistance.

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900 MPH is used...fast bullets....

Assuming a large marshmellow weighs 0.5 grams, that is is force of 402.336 Meters per second...It has Momentum of 201 Grams per second.

Assuming it weighs 7 grams, it has a momentum of 2.8 Kilograms per second.

 

It takes 20 pounds of force(per second) to form a bruise

 

200 grams is equal to around 7 ounces(which isn't even 1 pound)

2.8 kilograms is equal to 6 lb and 2.76 ounces...

Neither of which are enough to cause a bruise.

 

 

Thus, to be 'hurt' by a marshmellow:

A 10 gram marshmellow would need to be travelling at:

9071.8 Grams per second

907 Meters per second or 2,029 miles per hour...

 

 

Which is somewhat faster than you expect a marshmellow to travel.

[Jehosaphat]

Well, I guess now we need someone to do calculations on how fast sand needs to be traveling to cause brain damage.

[Ieyfura]

You must also remember that most items have a max as to how fast they can go without being damaged or destroyed. I think a marshmellow would disintegrate at that speed Archi O_o

[The_Mather1]

Even if you got a marshmallow up to the speed at which it could theoretically damage the skull it would just splat, leaving your forehead with a nice coating of sugar and starch.

 

And I was asuming if fired out of some gun, Archi, so somewhere above 1000km/t, not that it would matter because your calculations are asuming they are solid, while most of the power would in fact be used to compress the marshmallow which again would make the impact surface larger.

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Sand weighs between 28 micro grams and 23 miligrams...So lets go with those two...

 

To knock someone out, hence cause brain damage is around 400 pounds.

 

So...

 

400 pounds is 181,436,948,000 Micro Grams

400 pounds is 181,436,948 Miligrams...

 

Thus:

1 grain of sand of 28 micrograms weight, to cause damage, it would need to be travelling at 6,479,891 Meters per second

1 grain of sand of 23 milligrams weight, to cause damage, it woud need to be travelling at 281,734 Meters per second

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Even if you got a marshmallow up to the speed at which it could theoretically damage the skull it would just splat, leaving your forehead with a nice coating of sugar and starch.

 

Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction...So 'splat' would also cause a bruise...

 

Ieys comment:

True, however I didn't want to be too long winded by analysing when the marshmellow would be destroyed.

 

And I was asuming if fired out of some gun, Archi, so somewhere above 1000km/t, not that it would matter because your calculations are asuming they are solid, while most of the power would in fact be used to compress the marshmallow which again would make the impact surface larger.

 

If you fired them out of a gun then nothing would happen...since they contain no gunpowder....

Assuming you could, then they would be travelling at between 200 and 900 meters per second... Not 100,000 Meters per second

 

Again, third law of motion...yes they would compress, and then they would decompress/the weight would catch up with them...so it is not important.

 

The impact surface is important, but, like I said to Iey's comment, I didn't want to be too long winded.

 

I also ignored wind resistance...in case anyone was wondering

[The_Mather1]

Anyone think we should have some weekend projects just for fun? This weekend we could all buy a bag or two of marshmallows and attempt to find out as many insane facts as possible, afterwards we could compile it into a pic, sign it as Falador Tavern and spread it out on the internet.

 

Also, for grain of sand, I was thinking more about the damage it'd do while passing through a brain.

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Marshmellows are vile, they are liable to kill you, cooking them on a stick is likely to mean you are drink/eat animal waste...oh, and they are vile...Did I say that already?

 

 

Meh, everything is mildly dangerous.

[The_Mather1]

To quote something I read once:

Life is dangerous, there's no one yet that has survived it.

 

And something slightly related, my dad's Russekort (Russ being a tradition, I'll explain it if you want, kort is card) read, "You don't get into heaven if you quit drinking, you just get to hell sober".

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Which is kinda why I don't believe in the death sentence or maximum level fines/imprisonment...because...if you have killed someone, there is not alot of point in stopping after that.

[Seraphi]

Das Uberbrick AKA The Goddamned Computer was delivered today, and it works!

 

Unfortunately, Windows 7 is completely stupid and refuses to detect any network connections at all. I tried finding a solution on the net using my laptop, and apparently this problem is really common, and I still can't find a solution.

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I have a solution...its call Vista...I hear they got 95% of the bugs out now.

[Nexaduro]

XP all the way!

[Earth]

Homeverk, it is a day killer, no? Anyways, i'm jsut randomly thinking about IRC dungeoneering while doing math homework. Evil Calculus ninjas here we come! WOOOO!

[Jehosaphat]

If bored:

 

 

1. Go to Runescape.com

2. Click the text thing saying community

3. Login, any noob acount can now post in forums

5. Scroll down find forum games

5. click 'Create Your Own Country 24' on the front page

6. Post a reply saying that your from tip.it and than try and incourage them to join.

I didn't notice this post before, but from what I've read off of that thread, you're basically suggesting we go troll the RSOF. To be exact, one of the few parts of the RSOF that seems to have remained moderately decent.

 

And despite the fact that it's one of the few parts of the RSOF that has retained relative decency, I think this would mess the Tavern up. I personally would rather keep a balance of diceroller/Hegemony players, because if we get a massive influx of people who want to play Hegemony-style, those of us who don't play Hegemony games will get left in the dust with our D20s.

[RpgGamer]

what if...

we put hegemony, inside of dungeoneering...on a TBS style world map?

[Retech]

Joyous tidings to all, I come bearing news of the apocalypse!

It all started some weeks ago, when Japan decided to antherax bomb Turkey, Italy and Australia... But I get ahead of myself...

To begin with Japan used Stratos Jets to firebomb cities...These were not just any firebombs, these were the most ubered firebombs it was possible to build

Some 19 Million people in Italy were killed, with some 5 million more left horribly disfigured.

Some 12 Million in Australia, with 6 Million left disfigured.

In Turkey the use of ICBMs are Anti-StratosJet countermeasures left the Japanese airforce reeling after 100 Stratos Jets were shot down. However they still managed to drop their bombs, though Turkey had abandoned its cities a long time ago, so the damage was negliable.

 

But these issues paled when compared to the Anthrax bombings. Turkey was the worst, by a slight majority, at 99.9% of the population exterminated, followed closely by Germany at 99.6%...though, in all honesty, no country west of the Atlantic Ocean managed to escape unharmed. Switzerland suffered 20% population destruction(3,000,000 out of 15,000,000) even with contained archologies, owing to non-perfect construction methods. All other countries west of the Atlantic lsot between 98 and 99.9% of their population.

Even Japan and Indonesia, which have been left at 892,010(99.3% mortality) and 1,149,825(99.5% mortality), respectively, have suffered extensively.

 

North and South America have thus far escaped without incident after all flights to and from the rest of the world were cancelled.

 

The population outside of the Americas is currently:

74,316,923

Down from

6,231,692,320