An MAC projectile got fired in the atmosphere with 4% of lightspeed.
During the flight two things happen:
It gets slower and heat itself up until it melt,all due the airresistance.
So my question is,woulf the heat emitted from the projectile be high enough to vaporize a human,if he would stand in the projectiles path(here we ignore the 600ton projectile and just focus on the temperature)
I say yes,it would vaporize a human as tungsten melts by an temperature of 3422degrees celsius and turns into vape by an temperature of 5930 degrees celsius and this temperatures could be reached easily by such an high speed.
Cremation temperatures are between 1400 and 1800 Fahrenheit, but for the body to fully cremate it takes 2 hours.
It might not instantly vaporize a human, but it would still most likely result in death
See this for a similar scenario at 0.9c. At 0.04c, not much really changes from that, the energy scale just drops to a half, and everything is perhaps slightly less catastrophic. The relative kinetic energy of the MAC round to the air molecules should still be enough to initiate nuclear reactions. Certainly anything and everything will disintegrate into plasma. So, at any rate, “vaproziation” is probably an understatement.
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> Cremation temperatures are between 1400 and 1800 Fahrenheit, but for the body to fully cremate it takes 2 hours.
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> It might not instantly vaporize a human, but it would still most likely result in death
The shockwave of the round passing would rupture organs, shatter bones and basically crush them to death before they were burned.
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> > Cremation temperatures are between 1400 and 1800 Fahrenheit, but for the body to fully cremate it takes 2 hours.
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> > It might not instantly vaporize a human, but it would still most likely result in death
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> The shockwave of the round passing would rupture organs, shatter bones and basically crush them to death before they were burned.
Yeah, tsassi already proved me wrong
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> See this for a similar scenario at 0.9c. At 0.04c, not much really changes from that, the energy scale just drops to a half, and everything is perhaps slightly less catastrophic. The relative kinetic energy of the MAC round to the air molecules should still be enough to initiate nuclear reactions. Certainly anything and everything will disintegrate into plasma. So, at any rate, “vaproziation” is probably an understatement.