#like sharks

[scaledandtally]

freak fish

[adeadcreator]

Literally y’all the minute I open my inbox😭😭

[urinarythreatinfection]

Must be fly as hell getting yiur back scratched by a human as an animal. Like your whole world has widened because oh shit you can actually get rid of that itch. I would be nice to humans too if i was an animal that couldnt scratch my own back.

[meganimnimon]

This is something of a thought experiment in relation to the story like sharks by the incredibly talented @inbabylontheywept, as well as my continuation of it.

Additionally, I am no physicist. What I say here will at most make literary sense. I will pepper in my understanding of actual physics whenever convenient, but I make no promises as to accuracy.

With that being said:

What would happen if you fired a railgun in ftl?

Let’s ignore how it happened for now. Let’s say the railgun was on a spaceship moving in ftl and fired like a rock thrown out the sunroof of a moving car.

Now, there’s no precedent for something like this happening. Neither is there any theoretical math that could inform such a thing. We may only guess what seems likely. But it’s not unreasonable to assume that this would result in a black hole.

The real question is how much of the impacted object would turn into a black hole. The projectile would probably turn an area of similar mass from the object into a black hole, creating a black hole of approximately twice the mass of the projectile.

A black hole of such small mass would be incredibly unstable. While it would probably consume a significant chunk of the surrounding mass, it would ultimately probably evaporate almost immediately. Leaving us with a projectile that would immediately destroy smaller ships, but would ultimately be survivable by large ones.

Unless, of course, your ship is not just a ship. Unless your ship is also one massive gravitational anomaly. Unless your ship is the one like sharks is about. There’s no knowing what’s actually going on in there. We may only speculate.

But maybe. Maybe it’s possible that a black hole in that environment wouldn’t just evaporate. Maybe, between whatever malfunctions the damage caused and the already weird effects of the ship on spacetime itself, the black hole would be pulled apart.

And explode.

Which may result in a massive gravitational wave, traveling at the speed of light and pulling apart anything bigger than a molecule within a massive radius.

How could you escape such a thing?

Maybe if you yourself were moving faster than light, and thus could outrun the wave.

But you’d still have to know it’s coming for that to work.

Like maybe if you were the one who fired the railgun?

But like I said, this is all just speculation.

[icemankazansky]

I don't care what anyone does or does not do with their body hair but do the people who don't shave their legs know the sublime ecstacy of freshly shaved legs between freshly laundered sheets bc I can't think of anything that approximates the experience

[couch-house]

this isnt meant to be a nsfw ask but do you think zim/irkens have genitals? because they dont reproduce, theyre born thru machines. this has been on my mind and the anatomy confuses me.

nah I think theyre just smooth down there. just smooth all over.

[tokyoteddywolf]

Okay, so my opinion on wolves is that they are huge fluffy deadly doggies. They're good predators, they're bigger than I am on their hind legs, they're fluffy, they're the epitome of a good family hierarchy, they're gentle with their children, excellent hunters and overall amazing animals. I call them huge fluffy deadly doggies to remind myself that though they are cute, they are an animal I'd never want to anger. There's power in those jaws, I ain't messing with that. I still want to meet one though ;w; That's my biggest dream, to pet a wolf. Domesticated, but still a wolf. I don't want my hand bitten off, thank you very much.