Name one phyisical tangible thing that cannot kill

[Spatula]

So name it!  

Even band-aids can kill (because their racist! hehe) ...you'll suffocate on choking on 60 of them at once!  Don't ask me why you'd eat band-aids...

[Nightscape]

tangible.... sounds like tangerine, but not quite.

[blindmouth]

clean air? is this suppose to be a jocular post?

[blindmouth]

the sound of crickets? the sound of pac-man traversing the maze?

[Spatula]

No, it has to be physically tangible, although sound energy....has mass, because E=MC^2

[Tash]

a single piece of sand

[xvimbi]

a single piece of sand

Oh no! Imagine the single piece of sand is on a heap somewhere on a beach and happens to end up in somebody's shoe. At home, that person takes off his shoe whereupon the piece of sand falls out and ends up in the eye of his dog. The dog goes berserk and bites the neighbor in the shin. The neighbor is about to light the grill, but - out of shock - throws the already lighted match into the little haystack in his yard. The haystack starts to burn and produces a lot of smoke that rises into the sky. The pilot of a small plane is blinded by the smoke, looses control over the plane and crashes into a missile silo on a nearby military basis. The missiles take off and start a chain reaction of ballistic missiles being launched all over the world - and so the world was annihiliated by a little piece of sand...

[blindmouth]

No, it has to be physically tangible, although sound energy....has mass, because E=MC^2

i wouldnt use the word tangible because it can entail many different subjects. you seem to be suggesting material objects.  still, i suggest clean air.

this is really a silly post!

[Spatula]

Oh no! Imagine the single piece of sand is on a heap somewhere on a beach and happens to end up in somebody's shoe. At home, that person takes off his shoe whereupon the piece of sand falls out and ends up in the eye of his dog. The dog goes berserk and bites the neighbor in the shin. The neighbor is about to light the grill, but - out of shock - throws the already lighted match into the little haystack in his yard. The haystack starts to burn and produces a lot of smoke that rises into the sky. The pilot of a small plane is blinded by the smoke, looses control over the plane and crashes into a missile silo on a nearby military basis. The missiles take off and start a chain reaction of ballistic missiles being launched all over the world - and so the world was annihiliated by a little piece of sand...

Now that was what I was looking for  

[Daevren]

Mass isn't energy.

[bernhard]

Mahatma Gandhi.
Dalai Lama.

[Tash]

Oh no! Imagine the single piece of sand is on a heap somewhere on a beach and happens to end up in somebody's shoe. At home, that person takes off his shoe whereupon the piece of sand falls out and ends up in the eye of his dog. The dog goes berserk and bites the neighbor in the shin. The neighbor is about to light the grill, but - out of shock - throws the already lighted match into the little haystack in his yard. The haystack starts to burn and produces a lot of smoke that rises into the sky. The pilot of a small plane is blinded by the smoke, looses control over the plane and crashes into a missile silo on a nearby military basis. The missiles take off and start a chain reaction of ballistic missiles being launched all over the world - and so the world was annihiliated by a little piece of sand...

oh well fine then

[donjuan]

ok ok - a marshmallow, flattened down.

it cant be inhaled if it is flattened, is too soft to cut something, too light to bruise someone and cant get into your eye!  If you step on it, you wont slip, but the marshmallow will just smear.  Ha! Beat that!!

donjuan

[benji]

What an unusual topic!

ok ok - a marshmallow, flattened down.

it cant be inhaled if it is flattened, is too soft to cut something, too light to bruise someone and cant get into your eye!  If you step on it, you wont slip, but the marshmallow will just smear.  Ha! Beat that!!

donjuan

Someone could trip over the marshmallow if it is not flat enough, thus causing an injury or even a death. Plus, marshmallows get sticky when heated, so if it is left on the ground on a hot day, it could possibly stick to someone's shoe, slowing him down just enough for an assailant or large, angry animal to catch up to him. LOL

[DarkWind]

Hmm... your own belly button? That's the best I can come up with...

[Spatula]

Hmm... your own belly button? That's the best I can come up with...

Unless you're done picking your nose, ears, and ...toes..

then next comes the bellybutton, but oops!  Your finger nails just happen to be too brittle by then to scoop out all that years worth of belly lint from your '76 hockey jersey, so to make up for that blunt nail, you have to keep digging and scrapping but before you know it, you've just somehow managed to penetrate the demis and into the first layer of that burger from McDoodoos.

And you perform your very own Cesarean and got out your half digested burger with that lovely stomach acid ..and of course it causes insane burns and then you die.  

I have a morbid imagination for a kid.

[rph108]

Do you mean kill directly or indirectly?

[rph108]

Did I just ask that question?

[DarkWind]

Unless you're done picking your nose, ears, and ...toes..

then next comes the bellybutton, but oops!  Your finger nails just happen to be too brittle by then to scoop out all that years worth of belly lint from your '76 hockey jersey, so to make up for that blunt nail, you have to keep digging and scrapping but before you know it, you've just somehow managed to penetrate the demis and into the first layer of that burger from McDoodoos.

And you perform your very own Cesarean and got out your half digested burger with that lovely stomach acid ..and of course it causes insane burns and then you die.  

I have a morbid imagination for a kid.

But what if this person had a brain?

[super_ardua]

What an unusual topic!

Someone could trip over the marshmallow if it is not flat enough, thus causing an injury or even a death. Plus, marshmallows get sticky when heated, so if it is left on the ground on a hot day, it could possibly stick to someone's shoe, slowing him down just enough for an assailant or large, angry animal to catch up to him. LOL

Also it can be used to cultivate harful bacteria

[Spatula]

Well use your imagination...

I guess it can kill directly or indirectly (which I would then think would be every single thing on the planet)

[Spatula]

clean air? is this suppose to be a jocular post?

Well...you can fall 1000 feet through it...and splattttt  

[donjuan]

Well...you can fall 1000 feet through it...and splattttt  

Well, then it isnt the air that kills you, but the concrete.

I think air could kill you- two ways:

Someone injects air into your blood stream.
OR
Someone blows air into your ear, stimulating the semicircular canals of the inner ear.  (Yes, it IS possible)  You become motion sick from this and throw up.  You throw up so much, you die from dehydration, or the esophagus is burned from the hydrochloric acid, scar tissue forms, sealing it off.  You would then die from hunger..
donjuan

[Spatula]

How...informative.

[Daevren]

Any object can be giving enough energy to go right through you. Just give it a speed of a half C. If it hits you in the right place you will get killed.

I wonder if what happens when you shoot a grain of sand right through someones head, will it create a shockwave destroying the whole brain? Or will it exit the head with the same size hole it entered? If so, then you can probably shoot a grain of sand with .5 C throught someones head, if its a really small one and you are lucky it won't cause serious damage.

Well, mabye. Don't try it at home.

[xvimbi]

Any object can be giving enough energy to go right through you. Just give it a speed of a half C. If it hits you in the right place you will get killed.

Neutrinos don't kill!

[donjuan]

What the heck is a half C?

[xvimbi]

What the heck is a half C?

I guess, he meant "a half c" or "c/2" with "c" denoting the speed of light.

Neutrinos are still a good guess. They appear to have a rest mass, albeit a very small one, so they travel with a speed that is slightly less than light. What is important in the context of the original question is the fact that they go right through matter. Even if they do hit another particle, the effects are extremely small and most likely not deadly.

[Spatula]

Isn't an air molecule even bigger than this Neutrinos?

That means if you can somehow shoot an air molecule at even at 1/2 C, then perhaps it'd make this sonic boom and blast the brain.

[xvimbi]

Isn't an air molecule even bigger than this Neutrinos?

That means if you can somehow shoot an air molecule at even at 1/2 C, then perhaps it'd make this sonic boom and blast the brain.

There are strictly speaking no "air molecules'. Air is a mixture of various gases, the most prevalent ones are nitrogen, oxygen, argon and carbon dioxide. Yes, any molecule of these elements is a lot bigger than a neutrino, yet, at these dimensions, there will be no sonic boom when you accelerate a molecule to speeds higher than 300 m/s (which is quite slow compared to c, which is roughly 300,000 km/s). The reason being that a "sonic boom" is a pressure wave, which consists of oscillating molecules. A single molecule would not be able to induce such pressure oscillations. Furthermore, gas molecules can very well travel with speeds higher than 300 m/s, albeit only for a short while (then they usually bump into some other molecule), and we don't hear constant sonic booms around us.

[Daevren]

Since when are neutrinos and 'air' molecules tangible?

There are actually subatomic particles that come down with huge speeds, sometimes .9 C and go right through you. They also go through the earth. Muons for example. They are created when photons from space(sunlight) hit the atmosphere. But they decay pretty fast. They have speeds of .9 C so they have time dilation.

All those objects will go right throught you. Remember an atom is one tiny point and then a large space around it with electrons moving around. So its mostly nothing. Same with molecules, its mostly empty. So the chance that those small particles hit each other is very small. And if it happens they will just bumb and still nothing would happen.

Of course, when it happens alot you do get sick. They call it radia-activity

But those particles don't have much energy. A baseball moving 30 m/s has lots of more energy.

The question is, can a grain of sand get enough energy to kill you? And does the brain absorb the energy. When I talked about shock wave I wasn't talking about a sonic boom. I was wondering if the brain would absord the energy of the grain of sand. It happens with some bullets. They give bullets special shapes so they create nasty wounds and don't just go through creating small clean wounds(or the opposite for armored targets).

Maybe it depends on the shape of the grain of sand too.

[Spatula]

That is really freaky is on those talk shows they bring in people that were like shot with a magnum and half their brain is gone, but they're still alive!
Or some dude had a knife stuck 9 inches into his skull but survived!

Man...I should have seen the Rippleys believe it or not exhibition while in Sydney and San-Francisco..

[all_black_and_white]

A speck of dust.

[donjuan]

A speck of dust.

some people are allergic to dust..

[all_black_and_white]

some people are allergic to dust..

I can just see it in the headlines...

"Man inhales speck of dust, sneezes violently 73 times, and dies within the hour."

 Nahh.....

[Spatula]

See ripleys believe or not..they got weird stuff going on in there man.