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?

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[+] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)
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    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.

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