I’m trying to work out how to model the destruction of the towers using glizzies. What would I have to build the towers out of if I wanted to throw hotdogs at them to destroy them?
Cardboard is obviously too strong. Wax paper has too much tensile strength but crumples satisfactorily. Does anyone have ideas on what I should use as the tower materials?
hot dogs can’t melt steel beams
but accelerating that hot dog to the speed of light and you could probably do some damage…
0.67 percent the speed of light would be enough. That’s mach 5800, or 2000 km/s. A 50g hot dog would have around 10^11 J kinetic energy.
If you accelerated a 50g hot dog to 10 percent light speed you’d probably have enough energy there to destroy civilization.