• Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The correct answer is an unlucky sentient manhole cover, that incidentally was thinking “Oh no, not again”.

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        3 months ago

        If I recall correctly the fastest object ever was a manhole cover after an explosion. If it was sentient then it would be the fastest creature.
        BRB, going to look up the incedent.
        Edit: Here you go

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          During the Pascal-B nuclear test of August 1957, a 900-kilogram (2,000 lb) iron lid was welded over the borehole to contain the nuclear blast, despite Brownlee predicting that it would not work. When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph). The plate was never found. Scientists believe compression heating caused the cap to vaporize as it sped through the atmosphere.

          A one ton iron vent cap (sewer plate) moved so fast it vaporized. Iron into gas, just add velocity in atmo. That’s so fucking cool.

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          3 months ago

          the nuclear blast ended up having a yield 50,000 times greater than predicted

          That’s what’s known in the industry as “an oopsie”. Almost at the “snafu” threshold over which it would be likely to cause a brouhaha.