• Question: Could you die from getting hit in the head by a loaf of bread?

    Asked by anon-240669 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 13 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Ben Cropper

      Ben Cropper answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      If the loaf of bread is moving fast enough, certainly!
      https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
      Here is a cool article about stuff moving absurdly fast. In this case it’s a baseball, but I imagine that if it’s a loaf of bread the result would be largely the same.

    • Photo: Tom Dally

      Tom Dally answered on 13 Mar 2020:

      There is nothing I can say here that could possibly improve on Ben’s answer – that link is amazing!

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