P5_2 Causing a Mass Extinction Event with a Single Bullet

Hannah Clear, Daniel Evan, George McGilvray, Edward Turner

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In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using a bullet and a cannon shell to cause significant damage to the Earth, and calculated that they would need an impact velocity exceeding 99.999 919% the speed of light to do so.

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