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[Ebony]

M Fnord wrote:

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Wait, this thing moves at a third of the speed of light? That would mean it's a kinetic weapon capable of one-shotting a target with... *does
some quick back-of-the-envelope calcs* the equivalent of ~300 tons of TNT.




This may require some rethinking.

To say nothing of the sonic boom it would cause if it was fired in an atmosphere. I'm going to have to say my vote is "no" on that.

Let's review:

Speed of light: approximately 186,282.397 miles per second.

One-third of the speed of light: approximately 62,094 miles per second

Speed of a bullet: between 600 and 5,000 feet per second, according to the World Book Encyclopedia

Number of feet in a mile: 5280

One-third of the speed of light in feet: approximately 327,857,018.72 feet per second

That's more than 65,500 times faster than the fastest bullets. So ... no.
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