r/AskReddit 29d ago

What’s a fact that’s real, but sounds completely fake?

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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.

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u/rikkitikkitavei 28d ago

That’s fucking incredible!

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u/Mercury-Redstone 28d ago

The acceleration of the strike is the same as a .22 caliber bullet

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u/Mateob04 28d ago

That's fucking incredible!

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u/mark-five 28d ago

The Man In Black is gaining on us.

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u/trump_the_dog 28d ago

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

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u/Lys_Vesuvius 26d ago

Which 22? Short, long, long rifle, or magnum?

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u/WhoaItsCody 28d ago

Your username just gave me a vivid childhood memory of watching that movie a bunch. Looking at it now, it was super unsettling.

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u/its_not_my_fault- 28d ago

Hardcore dodgeball

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u/UlrichZauber 28d ago

If you can dodge post-orbital-decay re-entry charcoal, you can dodge a ball.

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u/WhiskeyDickens 28d ago

I can throw a football over them mountains

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u/gojumboman 28d ago

Grandma just called and said you’re supposed to go home

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u/DyersChocoH0munculus 28d ago

“You ever look into anything like…time travel?” “Easy, I’ve already looked into it myself.”

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u/Entitled2Compens8ion 28d ago

Motherfucker beat me to it

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u/Fireblast1337 28d ago

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

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u/tyrone_jonez 28d ago

Project Power w/ Jamie Foxx. Iirc, his powers were based exactly off the mantis shrimp.

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u/degejos 28d ago

I think it was pistol shrimp not mantis shrimp, they are different But cmiiw tho

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u/degejos 28d ago

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

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u/incredible_mr_e 28d ago

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.

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u/MeatwadsTooth 28d ago

Just because it happens to intersect the ground doesn't mean it's not in orbit

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u/incredible_mr_e 28d ago

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I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it means.

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u/Mr_ToDo 28d ago

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?

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u/incredible_mr_e 28d ago

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.

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u/Ramblesnaps 28d ago

Just embed it into the moon and it will be orbiting the earth.

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u/badseedjr 28d ago

Into which orbit?

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u/SalvadorsAnteater 28d ago

A baseball wouldn't survive reentry. Wouldn't it just equally evaporate due to friction if you'd throw it with ~50km/second?

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u/Prepheckt 28d ago

Have you seen the xkcd cartoon about throwing a baseball at 90% of the speed of light?

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

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u/SalvadorsAnteater 28d ago

Well, that was an enjoyable read. Thanks.

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u/walruz 28d ago

It isn't friction that causes the heat, it is compression.

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u/SalvadorsAnteater 27d ago

That sounds plausible. Thanks for the correction.

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u/----_____---- 28d ago

Ur mom's

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u/badseedjr 28d ago

That's not that impressive.

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u/dwdwdan 28d ago

I mean we could probably throw it at orbital velocity, but it would either burn up in the atmosphere or re-enter after doing about 1 orbit

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u/SupahCraig 28d ago

Angel Hernandez: STRIKE TWO!

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u/Aken42 28d ago

So when I get my three wishes, I should wish to be mantis shrimp man.

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u/fatboy1776 28d ago

Project Power

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u/G_Morgan 28d ago

One For All is now headcanon as giving the power of one mantis shrimp to the holder.

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u/JaDou226 28d ago

Every comment needs a reply like this one to put things into perspective

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u/Nihilikara 28d ago

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.

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u/N0SOC 28d ago

wed be invincible title card

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u/tmking01 28d ago

I used to throw a pigskin a quarter mile

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u/RotenTumato 28d ago

I mean, Aroldis Chapman probably could if he tried hard enough lol

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u/FlowerFox3 28d ago

Did you account for air resistance?

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u/kostiik 28d ago

I saw this fun fact on the internet. I may try to calculate it...

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u/kostiik 28d ago edited 28d ago

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).

Edit: just correcting row breakings.

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u/elmwoodblues 28d ago

the orbit of what

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u/zDraxi 28d ago

That's crazy to think about.

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u/DeusExHyena 27d ago

So that's what happened in Rookie of the Year.