Question for all you physics/math wizards...

[LeetNoob]

I think the idea was just a bit of fun, we all now the scenario is impossible.

see my previous post. At 50c. 39 Trillion Trillion joules roughly. 39 ‘yottajuoles’

About 619 billion times Hiroshima

 

[Samosa]

https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/

 

[LeetNoob]

https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/

Interesting article.

 

[Comrade Napoleon]

https://what-if.xkcd.com/20/

XLD made another one about a baseball at light speed, lets just say you will end bad, very bad.

even a 1 kg mass hitting earth's atmosphere at light speed would cause grief, severe grief.

Cheers Cmdr's

 

[Samosa]

If you like these kind of questions, this book is a lot of fun!

http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions/dp/0544272994/

 

[drew]

So that makes me wonder...

FSD tech seems to be the most powerful tech in the entire ED universe, and even lil cute sideys have one.

Wouldn't someone have weaponized this technology, and perhaps used it to destroy planets, stars, GALAXIES?!

Yes. It doesn't really make sense to be honest. An FSD would be a superb weapon of mass destruction.

Assuming the FSD is some form of 'Warp Drive' (creating a bubble of 'normal' space around the ship and contracting and expanding space fore and aft of the ship respectively), the gravitational sheer in front of the ship would cause massive destruction to anything directly ahead of the ship. You wouldn't have to even hit the object, you could destroy it at range.

Cheers,

Drew.