On Jul 4, 2005, at 9:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally found it by changing my search. Cream pie sketch was zip.
OK, so I'm not senile just yet. ;)
What would be the total weight of an eighteen meter diameter
cream pie? No tin.
Depth?
If we go rule of thumb and figure a pie to be about 1/6 its diameter
for depth, we're looking at 3m or so for the depth of the pie. So we
have something that occupies perhaps πr^2 * h for the volume, or about
900 cubic meters of volume. If one cubic decimeter of water weighs a
kilo, and if a cream pie volume-for-volume weighs about the same as
water, we're looking at a pie that weighs nearly 10 million kilos (
1000*900 ).
The force of the blow when dropped from a three story height?
Depends on the depth of the pie, assumes earth normal gravity, etc.
Figuring a 10m drop, the pie at 18m diameter likely won't have achieved
terminal velocity, so its impact wouldn't give optimal splash. However,
those near the impact point would necessarily be swept off their feet
by the blow of the spreading mass.
As for how it feels -- imagine lifting a combat tank 3 stories up and
dropping it. Heavy thud. It wouldn't knock anyone of his feet, but it
would possibly dislocate doors and windows in immediate ( = within a
few meters) buildings, set off car alarms, make dogs bark, etc.
The estimated splash radius?
Big. For an 18m pie, off the cuff, figure about 7m for the residue
assuming a short drop. That's kind of a mass --> energy conversion and
is frankly beyond *my* reach to work out. But if you were to drop such
a thing in, say, the middle of a soccer field, the goals might just get
hit, while the sidelines would probably be soaked, and the Scots would,
of course, riot. (D'you have any idea how hard it is to get cream pie
out of a good kilt? Begorrah!)
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Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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