• @aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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    2511 months ago

    If you’re not, it’s the guy killing a million people a couple of iterations later

    I feel like running over all those bodies would make the train come to a stop way before it ran over a million people.

    Now I sit back and wait for some morbid soul who is better at math and physics than me to figure out the answer.

    • Deceptichum
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      1711 months ago

      Now if we assume the victims tied up are frictionless orbs, and the train is also a frictionless orb, and the two of them are travelling in a frictionless void than I reckon we could kill a few more.

      • LaggyKar
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        711 months ago

        But then would they die if they don’t slow the train down? The train would necessarily have to impart some energy in order to effect a change in their bodies.

    • @Reliant1087@lemmy.world
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      211 months ago

      I mean if you’re going fast enough with a pointy train, you could chop up people pretty easy. You just need to make sure that each person is a tire width apart to make sure the wheels don’t lose traction. Assuming a person is roughly half a metre across and a tire is 75cm in diameter, we get 1.25m per person, so a track of 1250km for a million people. Not very long at all.