1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!

[sevenswells]

Any chance any of you knows his/her way around physics and math? I've got a very specific question to ask, for a fic. If you have the answer to that I will be forever grateful.

Say, if you drop by airplane a cast-iron kitchen sink (approx. 130 pounds) at an altitude of 6000 meters; say that drop speed is about more than 200 km per hour (if I'm not mistaken), would it be enough for said sink to smash into a concrete slab (for the foundations of a small building, like a house; let's say the height of the slab is about 40 cm) down below, and how much damage will it do? Like, how deep would the sink land? Any chance it would shatter the slab?

I know, that's very precise, but if you've any idea, I'd be glad to know the answer and will love you forever.

Comments

[sevenswells.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I didn't know such community existed, it's pretty awesome! Thank you so much, I think it will be most helpful! And even if I don't get my answer, I will loooove reading this comm; I'm a sucker for all kinds of trivia and information about pretty much anything.

[kamexkame.livejournal.com]

There goes it goes, my chance to have you love me forever.

Even though I'm as helpless at math/physics as Einstein sucked with directions (actually, I'm also as clueless as he was with directions...) I'm azezztrty enthusiastic about you writing new fic. And I can't help hoping it's piglet fic. But just Sherlock/John would do ^^.

[sevenswells.livejournal.com]

Well it's for one of the fics I want to write, yes, and yes, it's at least *partly* Sherlock/John. In fact it's gonna be one giant crossover of Sherlock, Dirk Gently, Misfits, and a bit of Black Books; supposedly it will be crack, too, but I want my crack to be based on srs trufax like "can a kitchen sink dropped by plane shatter a concrete slab?" Yeah. Go figure. I will be using a lot of google and wikipedia for this one I think. I do love research, though. ^^
It's good that you reminded me of the piglet fic, btw, I need to write that down on my long list of plot bunnies that I will take care of *after* stupid fucking paperwork. Oooh, shiny.

[aubade-saudade.livejournal.com]

hey, bb. i was looking at the art you've done for Captive Prince, and was wondering if you'd be interested in doing a commission for me? i'm not even sure you do commish's.

i'm having multi-fandom headers (http://swan-bite.livejournal.com/profile) done for me for the different seasons. i'm looking for somebody to do the spring one. you're probably "cool story bro"ing by now, but if you're in any way interested (for spring or summer) let me know. <3

[sevenswells.livejournal.com]

Hey!! OMG you know what? You'd be the first person to commission me EVER (well, paid drawings in anime conventions notwithstanding)! Seriously. Which makes me very, very flattered (especially since your previous headers are so cool and beautiful! Oh dear), so yeah, I'm all for it! Send me an e-mail at kama_apsara at yahoo dot fr to discuss terms, fandoms and deadline and see if we can come to an arrangement, but at any rate, thank you for contacting me, you've pretty much made my day already! ^^

[aubade-saudade.livejournal.com]

for real? omg. how freaking wonderful. i'll be your first commish then. :D


i'll send you an email with details, asap. <3

[berylia.livejournal.com]

Have you tried asking my awesome and lovely girlfriend ?

[sevenswells.livejournal.com]

I'm so stupid. It didn't even cross my mind, WTF. Of course I should ask her! I think it's because I can never mix your wife and LJ and fic in my head, but thanks for the tip, I'm sure she'll be able to help me!