Geeking out a bit here. But the caliber of the bullet doesn't determine the velocity. That has to do with the shell and the amount of gunpowder in the shell
There’s a movie where powers are granted from a drug, and everyone gets a unique power. Revealed one character had the power of a mantis shrimp. He caused devastation
There is an anime that is better than that movie, its called Terraformars. A boxing got into procedure and got a power of mantis shrimp, at first he wanted an animal with the best eye, and not power. Mantis shrimp got both.
Oh also, in your movie it was Pistol shrimp not mantis shrimp, they are different
Actually, it's impossible to throw a baseball (or anything else) into orbit from the ground.
Either you don't throw hard enough and it crashes back to the ground, or you throw it too hard and it escapes Earth's gravity well. There's no "goldilocks zone" of throwing speed that can achieve a stable orbit.
Well how stable is any orbit really. But then again if you counted that then any thrown object is in a rapidly decaying orbit.
I wonder how stable an orbit you could get throwing your baseball and bouncing it off something like the moon to adjust its trajectory. You'd still have issues, but I bet it would last longer. Then again the moon would be pretty soft for rebounds.... still, just more magic throwing force and a stronger magic baseball.
Boy, I wonder at what speed you start causing XKCD level of destruction to the world getting your new sort-of satellite launched?
The problem with bouncing off the moon is that if you threw a baseball hard enough to hit the moon and bounce back all the way to earth it would be going way too fast to orbit and would just zip right past the planet.
The initial problem is that your baseball can't reenter the atmosphere without being slowed by drag and becoming a meteor. So it has to be at least 100 miles higher than it started after its first trip around earth.
Well, we could throw a baseball to a suborbital trajectory. It's impossible to throw anything into orbit, no matter how strong you are, simply because the thing you're throwing isn't travelling in the right direction. It'd have to accelerate again after leaving the atmosphere in order to be travelling in the right direction.
Ok so I just briefly looked and calculation wise it depends on how we measure size, I decided to count it one dimensionally with respect to hight not mass.
The size of mantis shrimp is 0.1m, size of average human is 1.7m, so the corresponding force for human would be 25,500N. Now I just callculated the impulse of force for throw that take 0.5 second (FΔt=mv). We would be able to throw baseball (m=0.15kg) with velocity equal to 85 km/s. Which is way more than enough to reach earth's orbit.
I did not account for air resistance (drag coefficient is 0.4 but I had no time to find out what is the air density function of altitude) but throwing baseball vertically up with this speed would mean that reaching the altitude of 20,000km (GPS satellites altitude) is just matter of 232.18 seconds. At that point the baseball would still be moving around 82.7 km/s. So saying that we would be able to throw that into earth's orbit is still just feeble comparison to how powerful we would be.
I know that my calculations are not that accurate, but I had little time so I tried my best.
If we measured size with respect to mass we would be able to generate force of 1.3MN (mega newtons).
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u/kostiik 28d ago
If we humans had this force to body ratio we could throw a baseball to the orbit.