if you can get enough peasants then the deceleration from near-lightspeed to peasant-throwing-speed within six seconds is going to create the kind of explosion for which you would want to be on the other side of the world.
Nope. Again, the same rule that says you can pass an item to the person next to you for free in near-zero time says you can *pass* it to them and they can *take it*. It's never moving faster than one person handing it to the next person, despite it getting from the start of the line to the end of the line, uh, instantly.
Real physics never comes into it, because the object never gains speed or momentum. If real physics *did* come into it, you couldn't hand it from one person to the next perpetually. You're abusing a rules loophole to do the absurd, but to do so you need to follow the rules you're abusing.
The Murphy's Rule here is the instantaneous transfer of any holdable object from one of the line to the other. Isn't that miraculous enough? Sheesh.
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Date: 2014-05-08 11:11 pm (UTC)Nope. Again, the same rule that says you can pass an item to the person next to you for free in near-zero time says you can *pass* it to them and they can *take it*. It's never moving faster than one person handing it to the next person, despite it getting from the start of the line to the end of the line, uh, instantly.
Real physics never comes into it, because the object never gains speed or momentum. If real physics *did* come into it, you couldn't hand it from one person to the next perpetually. You're abusing a rules loophole to do the absurd, but to do so you need to follow the rules you're abusing.
The Murphy's Rule here is the instantaneous transfer of any holdable object from one of the line to the other. Isn't that miraculous enough? Sheesh.