John Carmack
@ID_AA_Carmack · Aug 16, 2023
That would be punching them at over half the speed of light, or around 4 gigatons TNT equivalent energy. I’m not sure if that could actually ignite fusion reactions in the atmosphere as the bad guy launched, but it would certainly make a mess!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Assuming ~0.5c is the resultant speed of the superheated plasma that remains of whoever got punched, simply attempting to transfer that much kinetic energy so fast would be comparable to a large thermonuclear explosion.
And the moon would have a very large new crater.
07:05 AM · August 16, 2023 · 108.1K views
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