I was watching a SciFi tv show where large objects had an outer speed limit of 18000 kph and that got me wondering what things in everyday life are faster than even 500 kph.
I know bullets can be fast, but they are not exactly everyday life (at least in my life).
I included mass for obvious relativistic reasons.
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SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 231d
jim3692@discuss.online · 3 pts · 229d
Let's break it down...
The distance, between the traffic light and the cab driver, should be approximately 10 meters.
The time light needs to reach the cab driver's eyes is:
D ÷ c = 10 ÷ 299,792,458 = 0.0000000333... seconds = 0.0000333... milliseconds
The distance between the cab's horn and your ears, should be approximately 5 meters.
The time needed for the cab's honk sound, to reach our ears is:
D ÷ u = 5 ÷ 295 = 0.0169491525 seconds = 16.9491525 milliseconds
If the cab driver had a reaction time of zero, it would still take 16 milliseconds for us, to hear their honk.
The conclusion is that cab drivers have a negative reaction time, so that they can honk before the light turns green, breaking causality.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 229d
ch00f@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 231d
The crack of a whip is a sonic boom caused by the tip going supersonic.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 18 pts · 231d
Some sex includes supersonic elements, then.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 231d
🎵 I wanna make a supersonic man out of you 🎶
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 231d
grabs pool queue
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
Kill the Queen
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 231d
I don't think that those people waiting in line to go swimming wanted to be grabbed.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 231d
Traditionally, you use a rider's crop in sex, in which case, the cracking sound is the flap clap when you slap.
Bull whips, the ones that go supersonic, are often considered less sexy because they rip flesh and make people stop feeling all good and sexy.
Not that I've ever used either in sex. This is just what was explained to me back when I did photo shoots for BDSM community members and events.
emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 2 pts · 231d
That's awesome knowledge! Thanks for sharing and enlightening me! :D
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
Gotta go fast
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
That's cool
Super sonic means above 340 m/s, give or take some meters.
Willy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 231d
ch00f@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 231d
Glass cracks propagate at an absurdly fast rate. Something like 4x the speed of sound (1400m/s). Not a physical thing moving, but very common.
Willy@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 231d
I think it would propagate at the speed of sound in glass.
gloktawasright@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 231d
It seems that depending on the type of glass and the direction of the waves (longitudinal, shear, or Extensional) the speed of sound in glass can be between 2300-6000 m/s
Longitudinal is the type we normally think of though, and that is between 3900-5600 m/s. Which is still much more variation than I was expecting.
The speed of sound in air is around 340 m/s depending on temperature.
So if the op is correct about the speed, then it seems the cracks propagate slower than the speed of sound in glass.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sound-speed-solids-d_713.html
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 231d
OP specifically asked for something with mass. This is not a thing with mass. This is the same as saying a shadow can move faster than the speed of light.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 231d
breaks a pane of glass over your head
let me see you do that with a shadow
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 231d
Haha
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 229d
Not the same thing, since the movement of a shadow from point A to point B does not cause any transfer of energy or information between those points, whereas the shattering of glass can be initiated from point A and travel to point B at the given speed, transferring information (and possibly energy) between them.
As for not being a moving object, that's fair, and why they mentioned it's not quite the same thing in their comment.
5715@feddit.org · 4 pts · 231d
Interesting... how do you know about this?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 231d
Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have filmed glass cracking and calculated its speed many times. Very lovely channel that I recommend!
lgsp@feddit.it · 37 pts · 231d
Satellites are visible and move at some km per second. Pretty fast
Inside the atmosphere anything faster than some hundreds km/h get so much drag that they either are extremely small (bullets) or extremely powerful (planes, maglev trains)
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 231d
Are we observing them moving, or are they stationary and we are the ones moving? dramatic dun-dun-duuuunnnn
(kinda joke kinda serious)
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 231d
The answer is yes, depending on your frame of reference.
fujiwood@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
You're moving at about 700 m/s while sitting in your couch, according to Earth's rotation. So if the plane goes west at max speed, it would be 1400 m/s faster than going east.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 231d
And planes reach their higher speeds only at altitude where density is lower
ch00f@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 231d
The air leaving your lungs during a sneeze is moving roughly 100mph.
5715@feddit.org · 6 pts · 231d
That's probably the fastest thing a human body by itself can produce...
Tujio@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 231d
Modern MLB pitchers can regularly throw a baseball 100+ mph. Currently, the flick of the wrist during a curveball throw is the fastest human motion recorded.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 230d
Not saying you're wrong, just pointing out this is interesting.
A baseball pitcher snapping his fingers is where it's at.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 231d
Some viruses particles explode out of cells with crazy force. I don't know it off the top of my head but I remember reading about that somewhere.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 6 pts · 231d
...but nobody has measured my farts yet.
snooggums@piefed.world · 9 pts · 231d
Nobody has measured your farts and lived.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 231d
We have liftoff
5715@feddit.org · 2 pts · 231d
Road
runnerfarterI_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
Some MLB pitchers are able to throw baseballs faster than 100MPH. Nerve signals can travel through the body at 200MPH.
Curious_Canid@piefed.ca · 0 pts · 231d
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 231d
Wow, that's nuts
gothic_lemons@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
I sneeze obnoxiously loud. I bet I break 130 mph easy. How do I go about testing this?
lovepeacenquiet@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 231d
ch00f@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 231d
The tips of the turbine fan blades are going much faster than the plane itself.
5715@feddit.org · 5 pts · 231d
Do you know any rough numbers?
boring_bohr@feddit.org · 12 pts · 231d
According to this document, the Trent XWB from Rolls Royce has a fan diameter of 3m and a reference rotational speed of 2700 rpm for the low pressure stage, which would result in a blade tip speed of 424.1 m/s or 1526.8 km/h according to this calculator
upbeatdingo@piefed.world · 4 pts · 231d
I know that some generator turbines go ~3600 rpm
If my (admittedly super rusty) math is right if we assume a radius of 1 meter which would mean a circumference of ~6.28 meters. In that case the tips of the turbines would be moving:
6.28 * 3600 =22,608 meters per minute.
Please feel free to rip up my math as I’m going on little sleep at the moment.
5715@feddit.org · 3 pts · 231d
Search-fu gives me 377 m/s or 1357 km/h.
upbeatdingo@piefed.world · 5 pts · 231d
Gotcha, so I wasn’t too far off.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 29 pts · 231d
That manhole cover.
Headofthebored@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 231d
I wonder where that thing is nowadays. Probably landed in the ocean somewhere, or even burned up if it didn't just flat out leave earth orbit.
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 15 pts · 231d
I'm pretty sure the article iIread said it had more than enough speed to reach escape velocity, but would have ablated/vaporized before doing so.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 231d
Most likely never went far before it vaporized.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 18 pts · 231d
Depends on how you define everyday life, but there are currently trillions of Neutrinos flying through you at almost light speed. I think their mass still hasn't been measured. But it's pretty low.
theherk@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 231d
To include the neutrino in a conversation about things “with some mass” borders on silly. But hey, factually correct and all that. May as well include electrons.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 231d
Also need to specify rest mass. Light has momentum.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 6 pts · 231d
The best kind of correct!
MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 231d
Not so long ago I would have said electrons in a CRT screen (old school TV). When the electrons leave the accelerating anode, they are traveling at a reasonable fraction of the speed of light
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 231d
Yeah but electrons have no massI’m stupid, I was thinking of photons.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 231d
I think that "with some mass" wasn't meant literally but figuratively, specifically to exclude things like shooting subatomic particles.
I think OP means the kinda of things humans interact with and are able to perceive in their every day life.
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 1 pts · 230d
Explain to us how we don't interact with electrons in everyday life.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 230d
You conveniently skipped over the "and are able to perceive" part
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 1 pts · 230d
No, I didn't. We can perceive electrons in various ways.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 229d
You can perceive high speed electrons in various ways, in your every day life?
Ok, that level of pedantry is my job
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 1 pts · 229d
That's not what pedantry means.
The effects of subatomic particles, even high speed ones, are apparent even if you are unaware of the cause.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 229d
Perceiving the effects isn't the same as perceiving the object, unless you take an extraordinarily pedantic definition of "perceive".
And considering an individual electron to be an object that you perceive is likewise not commonly an everyday occurrence, unless you take a likewise pedantic definition of "object".
And even the word "perceive" was my choice of word, describing specifically that I believed that the OP meant to exclude things like subatomic particles. So even in the end you're still trying to argue that I didn't really mean what I meant, due to word choice, which is also a very pedantic thing to do
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 231d
Mantis shrimp punches travel 12 to 23 meters per second (approximately 27 to 51 miles per hour) in water the acceleration involved can reach up to 10,000 Gs.
The peak force generated by a mantis shrimp’s punch can be as high as 1500 Newtons, which is over 2500 times the animal’s own body weight.
The acceleration of their punch is such thay it creates a cavitation bubble which, when it collapses, can generate 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit – nearly as hot as the sun’s surface at 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
We named ours Smeagol.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 231d
The Mantis Shrimp is one of the few things that make me question pure raw evolution. How the fuck can you just evolve a sci fi plasma pistol?
nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 231d
Not exactly the answer to your question, but cockroaches are pretty fast, considering their size. If they were as big as humans, they could run with speeds over 300kmph.
More info here.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 231d
Sorry for being pedantic, but if they were as big as humans, they couldn't run that fast.
Also, they'd suffocate.
SirActionSack@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 229d
Kilo-mile per hour is an excellent unit and it should be used more, particularly with respect to insect movement.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 11 pts · 231d
It depends if you are in Usa or Ukraine, or in a peaceful country.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
Wait, I thought everyone played "Gun fire or fireworks" 🤔
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · -6 pts · 231d
Yet another ignorant jingoist
Take your nonsense over to a political sub
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 231d
Neutrinos. About 100 trillion go through you every second with about .000001 percent interacting with you. And they have a non zero mass.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 231d
When uncorking a champagne bottle, the gasses inside expand so fast that the white mist it can usually be seen is actually frozen CO
2Mesa@programming.dev · 1 pts · 231d
This is my high school chemistry talking here, but don't expanding gasses heat up? Ideal gas law and everything? Is there something weird happening like the CO2 instantaneously pressurizing or something right before expanding?
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 231d
It's the other way around, expanding gasses cool down and compression heats them up.
Mesa@programming.dev · 2 pts · 231d
I remember there being something misleading about the "temperature" in pV=nRT, but yeah, I think I was getting confused because I was thinking about it purely formulaicly.
But if the pressure drops and the volume of the gas increases, in order for it to cool, that would mean the drop in pressure is much less significant than the rise in volume?
But yeah, I should've remembered that expanding gasses cool, because I know how aerosol cans work. It's time to touch up on this stuff lol.
flubba86@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
I had a similar conversation with my wife a few weeks ago. We were watching the hydraulic press channel, where they were compressing water to very high pressures. When the water inevitably squirted out of the chamber, it turned to steam. My wife said yeah that makes sense, applying that much energy to compress the water would increase its temperature, so it wants to expand to become steam. Then I thought about it a while, and said wait, according to first principles of thermodynamics, shouldn't compressing water lower it's temperature?! The turns out the real world is correct, I was wrong.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
You're mixing cause and effect.
The effect of lowering temperature is shrinking gases. If you force a gas to shrink it will increase temperature.
SirActionSack@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 229d
Rudolf Diesel is sure you're wrong.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 231d
Can't find any solid numbers on it, but the micromirrors on a DLP projector are really fast. They rotate 10 degrees or so back and forth something like 1024 times for each color channel for each frame at 60fps.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 231d
I'd love to see the acceleration calculations for them.
Tiny masses but insane acceleration.
ch00f@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 231d
At the equator, everything is moving at over 1000mph.
5715@feddit.org · 5 pts · 231d
And the solar system itself is also quite fast, but that is not really what I meant. Too large.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 231d
Hmm how about CRT monitors/televisions? Not that common these days but they are basically little particle accelerators that shoot electrons at a pretty good fraction of the speed of light (like 30%). But I guess that's not really an answer to you question unless you define electrons as objects. I guess my other answer would be airbags which deploy at about 300 kmph
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 230d
Well, only sometimes.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 231d
There are a handful of peregrine falcon families where I live. They nest around cliffs. They're the single fastest animal so there's that
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 231d
With mass? In my everyday life? Cars, clearly the winner. I can't think of a more massive object moving at speed that I engage with every day.
Other than that.. Maybe airplanes? I fly once every 1-2 months or so.
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 231d
Planes are a good answer. Commercial jets normally fly at about 900km/h.
Also satellites. Something in low earth orbit like the ISS or a starlink node would be going about 8km per second.
IWW4@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 231d
Are planes part of your daily life?
I use planes maybe once every thee years.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 231d
They're everywhere all the time. Thousands of flights per day carrying millions of people.
I haven't flown in several years, but in some years have taken 100+ flights.
For someone on the US coasts (especially North East) getting anywhere quickly beyond a couple hundred miles will possibly involve a plane.
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 230d
I rarely use planes, but I usually see them flying overhead multiple times a day.
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 230d
All every day objects but photons have mass. Maybe also neutrinos.
5715@feddit.org · 1 pts · 230d
Bad faith
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 229d
While faith also has no mass, that's because it's an abstract concept, not an object.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 231d
There are quite a few bullets capable of >4,000 feet per second (or 2,700 mph, or 1,220 m/s or 4,390 kph).
You could call them an everyday occurrence if you live in the US
neo2478@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 231d
That's what kids learn in applied physics class
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · -10 pts · 231d
Gotta go being jingoist. Take your nonsense over to a political sub
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 231d
Don’t know where you’re saying that. There were over 14,000 gun related deaths in the US in 2025. That’s more than 38/day and that’s not including non-fatal shootings. January 1st saw over 90 deaths alone.
One of many reports. When you have that many, it very much is a “daily occurrence” in the US.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 231d
We're a country of a third of a billion, so even as astronomically high as 19/day is, it by no means makes it an everyday occurrence for every single one of us.
trolololol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 230d
Sorry mate it will always be tough for me to hold and not troll internet strangers about that country's dystopian deranged diseased state of things related to fire arms
CXORA@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 231d
What a strange way to use the word jingoist.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 230d
The crack of a bullwhip is caused by the tip exceeding the speed of sound, around 750 mph/1250 kph.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 230d
How many bullwhips are cracking your general area on an average day?
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 229d
The whip cracking factory. Duh...
kbal@fedia.io · 5 pts · 231d
I'll just go with the correct answer: Cosmic rays.
Zozano@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 231d
Cosmic rays have mass?
Trail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 231d
Yes.
kbal@fedia.io · 1 pts · 231d
They sure do, and they're randomly flipping bits in your computer's memory once in a while.
Zozano@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 231d
Nooooo, dont do that, I'm busy speed running Mario64
trolololol@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 231d
Rockets?
International space station goes around the earth at about 7km/s if I recall correctly. And it's quite big.
That's the kind of speed of any rocket going to meet with ISS or being put into earth orbit. Things reentrying from orbit hit the atmosphere at about that speed too.
Things going or coming to the moon need slightly more, I think ballpark is 10km/s, and above that you're travelling to Mars, asteroids, Venus, Jupiter, etc etc.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 231d
I feel like that's even less like "everyday life" than OPs example of bullets lol
trolololol@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 231d
I get your point but I'll nitpick anyways:
Isn't satellites as much part of everyday life as submarine internet cables, and our lives would be radically different without satellites but having only submarine cables?
Or do we need to see them to believe it?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 231d
Hmmmm that's a good point.
I still wouldn't count that as every day life because you're not physically interacting with the satellite or submarine internet cables, even if you're interacting with the effects of their existence.
But now I have to justify why my stance of "being physically near but still unable to see or touch directly" (as an internal mechanism of something) is any more "everyday life". It feels like an internal mechanism counts as just as every-day as the thing its a part of, but is it really?
I don't have a solid justification. It just feels different to me.
deHaga@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 231d
Concorde was supersonic
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d
There’s a dirty joke in here somewhere
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 230d
Me, at the end of any social engagement.
It’s like that episode of Simpsons where they’re filming something at the Simpsons’ house and Homer learns there’s snacks. He suddenly becomes a Homer-shaped cloud of dust.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 231d
Every mass is moving really fast from a certain point of view.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 231d
Well then you are lost!
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 229d
radio waves dont have mass but do have relativistic mass. And you didnt clarify whether relativistic mass counted, so I'm going to go with radio waves. They travel at the speed of light. I am the winner. I'd like my nobel prize in literature now.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 231d
Me when someone hits me up for a booty call.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 231d
In American schools it seems to be bullets
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · -7 pts · 231d
Ah, yes, another jingoist
Take your nonsense over to a political sub
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 231d
A skydiver's terminal velocity is about 90m/s (320km/h). Going beyond that requires propulsion.
Otherwise a visit to Japan or China might serve, Maglev trains can reach speeds in excess of 600km/h.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 231d
Isn't that for a skydiver who's going feet/head first?
While typical "flying w" is much slower?
(Its been a while since I've read up on it)
ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 230d
Yes it is, but we're going for max speed here :)
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 231d
When you were a kid: The velocity of the adrenaline rushing to your brain triggering a "fight or flight" mode (mostly flight) after you hear the sound of your mother saying your full name in her native dialect.
(Actually the fear remains well into adulthood)
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 230d
Adrenaline is released from the adrenal glands near the kidneys. From there, it first has to flow back to the heart, through the lungs, then back to the heart, and only then to the brain and the rest of the body. One full loop of your circulation takes about a minute at rest, and half a minute when your heart is really pumping, so lets take at least 20 seconds.
topherclay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 230d
Yes but you haven't heard this guy's mother saying it in her native accent. It really gets the blood flowing.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 231d
Why? What are you planning?
5715@feddit.org · 4 pts · 231d
For the future (most plans are). /j
I was planning on getting information (mostly useless and anecdotal to me).
CarterH739@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 231d
In Japan, everyday life could involve this thing.
18107@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 231d
Are you sure that video isn't playing at 2x speed?
I've seen videos of bullet trains before, and while they're fast, I don't think they're that fast.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 231d
Yes, it is
CarterH739@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 231d
Huh. That's disappointing.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 1 pts · 231d
China just hit a record with a high speed train that can hit over 700mph in under 2 seconds. They go extremely fast. They break the sound barrier. The front is shaped the way it is so when it enters tunnels, it doesn't blow shit up from the pressure it creates due to its speed.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 231d
To be clear, the thing that hit 700 km/h (a different unit from mph) in under 2 seconds was essentially a sled. Not a full train car.
Japanese trains go up to 320 km/h on current lines.
Anyway, the camera movements in the video kinda look sped up too.
Here is the same video without being sped up
Here is a future Japanese bullet train doing 500 km/h if they build out the maglev line.