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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Okay the math is obviously wrong, and it's not even answering the question.

The question was, how much force. If punting the kid involves a kick, let's say the foot makes contact with the kid for about 25 cm. Then the force required over this distance is on average 45 GN.

This is equivalent to the child experiencing roughly 180,000,000 G