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Scratch Theory: ZYellow, are your dodgeballs really dangerous?

SUSuperScratchMaker001•Created November 25, 2020
Scratch Theory: ZYellow, are your dodgeballs really dangerous?
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Okay. Safety glasses on. Today, I'm focusing on something you probably used a lot back in elementary school: a dodge ball. And the project that is going to help me today is @ZYellow's project: Crazy Cannons. Are the dodge balls in that project actually capable to push you back? Also, if you're asking me about the bombs, it's probably the same thing as the bombs from the previous theory based on their size alone. They do be dangerous. Using logic from my previous theory, I'm using my OC's 5'1" height as my trusty ruler. The first thing I had to do was find out the dodge ball's travel speed. And it seemed impossible. It turns out every dodge ball that fires is a clone, meaning it goes away after stopping the project. BUT I figured out another way. I used my "ruler" to find the distance from Cannon A to Cannon B, which was 12.3952 meters. Then, instead calculating how far a dodgeball went in a second, I timed how long it took to travel from Cannon A to Cannon B. Then I found out that each dodgeball is traveling about 6.5 m/h. Now here's the hard bit: Finding out how much force that dodge ball would carry and release on impact. Here I had to make some assumptions. The average dodge ball weighs 0.21 pounds, but the dodge balls are obviously way bigger than that. From pictures of dodge balls on the 'net, I estimated that the dodge balls are about 9 times bigger, making their weight about 1.89 pounds. And using a force calculator, I surprisingly got a little more than a THOUSANDTH OF A NEWTON. You heard me right. THAT IS NOTHING! ZYellow, when I started this theory I thought they were dangerous! But with math and science, they do nothing. It takes about 4,000 NEWTONS just to break the average bone! That means you would need about 2.6 MILLION dodge balls just to break a bone! And that assumes that they all hit at once towards the same bone! So dodge balls being thrown by a 2ND GRADER are more dangerous than these! Got it?! Safety glasses off.

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Project ID454488941
CreatedNovember 25, 2020
Last ModifiedNovember 25, 2020
SharedNovember 25, 2020
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