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[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 49 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Don’t forget, the chicken is frozen, so you also have to take into account the latent heat of fusion to melt the chicken before you can raise the temperature

This calculation also assumes that this is an inelastic collision where all the energy is absorbed into the chicken and not into your hand or into the air as sound or other kinetic energy.

Further the chicken is frozen solid, and, presumably, your hand is not. Of the two objects in this collision that could deform inelasticity and absorb the larger fraction of the energy, my money would be on the 0.4 kg slab of raw meat rather than the 1kg frozen billiard ball.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't 1600 m/s greater than the speed of sound? That sonic boom is gonna mess up the kitchen, if not the hand.

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