Timeline for What early middle ages weapons would suit an extremely strong child?
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| Feb 20, 2020 at 12:57 | comment | added | Trish | @paul23 yes and no: if you start early, a teenager will be a very good slinger by 14. Shepherds were usually very good slingers since they started to train as early as 8. | |
| Feb 20, 2020 at 3:49 | comment | added | paul23 | @Trish a sling is notoriously difficult to learn to aim. Unless your superchild has also a super knowledge it requires decade+ training before you can aim with any accuracy. A sling is much more difficult than say a bow. | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 16:59 | comment | added | Andrew Miner | Just bear in mind that with the 12x strength, the little girl may actually be able to throw an object hard enough that air resistance comes into play, and the object reaches some terminal velocity well before 12x a normal person's throw speed. | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 14:40 | comment | added | Willk | Here is the scene that gave me the idea. youtube.com/watch?v=z-QZaHP4Qpg | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 11:13 | comment | added | John Dvorak | "A rock thrown by someone seven times stronger than a man will punch a hole in a person" - I assume you didn't mean a through-hole, but I still smell good material for Mythbusters. | |
| Feb 18, 2020 at 7:45 | comment | added | xdtTransform | @JyrkiLahtonen, Blame the american unit I got so confused by the information I was reading. Let's correct it to 44 m/s, we still have a 8.5 ratio. She is still a shoot gun But now she have to really try she can't casually throw a rock that make a big boom sound. And for Nolan I really likes his movie. Except from NBA, no european should not be able to name more than three athlets NHL, MLB, NFL all together. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 22:52 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | @DanW: To apply lots of force over more time without running out of arm-movement distance, you want leverage. Like an Atlatl / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower (see Best ranged weapon for superhuman strength?), or for rocks basically a lacrosse stick. Apparently a staff sling is a thing, and could be even better than a fixed basket at the end of a stick (lacrosse). | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 20:40 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | I remember a case decades ago where a 10-year-old boy at a baseball game hit another boy in the chest with a pitched baseball and the second boy's heart stopped and he died. I guess a little girl with the strength of 12 not 10-year-old boys but grown men, could throw rocks hard enough to usually kill people. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 17:37 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen | @xdtTransform 90 meters per second is 324 km/h, or a tad over 200mph. I don't think even major league pitchers can do anything close to that. Nolan Ryan could top 100mph (barely), and his fastballs were legendary. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:38 | comment | added | xdtTransform | Baseball pitch ~90 m/s. Sound speed 330 m/s. That's a 3.5 ratio. But she can 12 times ratio. Give her gravel or little steel ball and you have something close to a shootgun. Bad pich will be basic shootgun, her best pich will be high velocity 0.220 Swift. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:28 | comment | added | Dan W | @PatriciaShanahan – yes, but the energy increases faster than the momentum as kinetic energy is quadratic on velocity, but momentum is linear. But in practice, when we throw, the force is transmitted into the ground instead through our shoes, and this is nowhere near the limit of the grip of our shoes. Of course, this depends on the OP's definition of strength – I'm assuming that movement speed increases with strength. If she can bench-press 12x an adult, but her muscles only contract at the speed of a kid, that will be a different matter. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:15 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | @DanW Remember momentum is conserved. Her small mass will increase the velocity. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 15:02 | comment | added | Dan W | @PatriciaShanahan with about 1/3 an adult's weight but 12x the strength, this won't be an issue. Remember that inertia = MxV, but damage inflicted is closer to Energy = 1/2 MV2 – this is why a child solder can shoot an AK which kills without being knocked backwards too much. Plus she can just wear weighted shoes. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 0:20 | comment | added | Willk | @PatriciaShanahan - I think 7x strength legs will help, and shortness too; less leverage of upper body. For real anime action she would take a 2 step runup, jump into the air, throw, and then be thrown backwards and land on her feet where she started. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 0:13 | comment | added | Trish | Add to that. SLING. | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 23:55 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | Action and reaction being equal and opposite, she will need something to brace herself against when she throws, to avoid being knocked off balance. Maybe several big strong men who form up behind her? A draft horse? | |
| Feb 16, 2020 at 23:29 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |