Banana death?

Imagine if the banana hit your face at 280mph, it's guaranteed to do more than a bruise lol, imagine if it hit you in the eye.... it's go straight through...
 
What is the maximum speed a bannana can travel through air before ripping itself apart?

Once you have that speed you need to work out if it's fast enough to do any damage.

I recon a large, not quite ripe bannana could go pretty fast and do some serious damage. But a peeled bannana wouldn;t be able to go fast enough to do any harm.

Very interesting subject and food for thought...
 
Also how is said bannana going to be propelled?

We need somebody clever to work out the terminal velicoty of a bannana. If it's not fast enough to kill, then there would need to be some kind of launching mechanism that wouldn't destroy the bannana.
 
Seems to be a lot of interest. I'm just assuming it is able to be propelled at any speed needed, but splitting apart in the air is another matter, would this even happen before near unreachable speeds?
 
Bananas contain the same poison as bee stings. If you were stung by a swarm of bananas, you would be much more likely to die than if you were hit by one travelling at high velocity.
 
gillywibble said:
Bananas contain the same poison as bee stings. If you were stung by a swarm of bananas, you would be much more likely to die than if you were hit by one travelling at high velocity.
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Ok, would you like to hit in the head by a banana doing mach one? :D
 
I saw a video of a tallow candle being shot through a 4 inch plan of wood. The plank did not come out of the exchange well.

Moral of the story: it doesn't matter how soft it is, if you give it enough speed, you could kill someone with it.
 
SlyReaper said:
I saw a video of a tallow candle being shot through a 4 inch plan of wood. The plank did not come out of the exchange well.

Moral of the story: it doesn't matter how soft it is, if you give it enough speed, you could kill someone with it.
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Exactly, but there seems to be a lot in this thread who would disagree for some reason. :/
 
SlyReaper said:
I saw a video of a tallow candle being shot through a 4 inch plan of wood. The plank did not come out of the exchange well.

Moral of the story: it doesn't matter how soft it is, if you give it enough speed, you could kill someone with it.
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But a candle is made of wax which, at room temperature, is actually fairly tough and will hold together well.
 
The Funktopus said:
bledd, soon to be posting from "le bastille".
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This is what I had in mind..

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In school you always heard daft stories about people getting killed by dropped sandwiches etc :D
 
If the curvature of the banana is significant enough, it could effectively become a bananarang* and hit the thrower.



*I am in the intial stages of licensing said concept so don't even try it sunshine.
 
Freefaller said:
Ok, but surely if the banana is subjected to such high force to propel it at a speed conducive to causing human tissue damage, unless frozen (and potentially even when frozen), wouldn't it disintegrate instantly? ;)
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vacuum and gentle acceleration \o/
 
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