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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why explode, the car didn't accelerate or interact with the continent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

For the same reason this baseball causes an expanding plasma-ball disintegrating everything. Fusion with air molecules that can't get out of the way fast enough https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Even ignoring the tires interacting with the road, you have air molecules. I don't think that would be enough to destroy a continent, but it would be very destructive.

Here is a cool What If? from xkcd about throwing a baseball at 0.9c.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Sound like a ton worth of mass would do a lot of damage indeed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Wow, that seems to be the very first What If ever!