Will an old Irish penny kill ya

David Office

Settle a bet!
If you drop a penny from the top of the Empire State - and it lands on a Meath-mans head will it kill him??

Doodee

is it capable of using mind bullets?

aidan_walsh

I'm pretty sure it would kill a man from any county, nationality, or race.

Now, the question is how long would it take to kill him. That all depends on where in the brain the penny hits.

David Office

doodle_sketch wrote:

I'm pretty sure it would kill a man from any county, nationality, or race.

Now, the question is how long would it take to kill him. That all depends on where in the brain the penny hits.

We are talking about a meath man!!

Capt'n Midnight

you would need to find the terminal velocity of the penny edge, then you would have the energy it has, this you can relate to a bullet - the yanks are fond of foot-poundage in describing guns.

try the physics forum for stokes equation for the coin
try the shooting forum for killing power - to see if the velocity would be terminal

BTW: if you have an old punt coin it is the same size as the old pennies as they should be easier to locate if you want to replicate the experiment. ie, time the coin dropped from different heights and plot the times - when the graph is straight it's reached terminal velocity.

crazy angel

paris, eiffil tower(did i spell that right?) penny, my finger, very very sore.

John

It could just lobotomise him

GuanYin

Davids Office banned for a week for trolling those noble people from the Royal County