Okay, let’s get started. *Pulls down screen* I want to start by finding how powerful the fireworks should be. To do that, I needed to find a ruler. Thankfully, @sharkyshar’s profile says that she is a 9th grader, and the average height of a 9th grader is 5’ 6”, or 66”. @sharkyshar’s OC in Fireworks is 332 pixels tall, so I divided 66 by 332 to get a measurement of 0.2 inches per pixel. Using this, I can multiply the height of the part of the firework that contains the explosive by 0.2 to get a height of 12.4 inches. Assuming that the explosive is TNT, and that the base is 1 by 1 centimeters, then the volumetric weight of the TNT is about 0.007874 kg (I converted 12.4 inches to cm). To determine the power of these explosions, I used the UN’s explosion consequence analysis website (Thanks, MatPat!). Since the fireworks exploded right when @sharkyshar kicked them, I set the range from munition to structure to 0. These fireworks are basically useless. They only have a fatal distance of 0.46 meters. Yes, anyone within 1 1/2 feet would be dead, but that is nowhere near enough to break a small window even 5 m away, let alone destroy the world. With that out of the way, let’s see how strong the fireworks have to be to actually destroy the world. It would take 5 • 10 to the 22nd power tons of TNT to blow up earth. That’s 5 with 22 zeroes after it. For reference, that would be 1 QUADRILLION tsar bombas, which are the most powerful bombs known to man. It’s actually a lot easier to do these calculations; all I had to do was divide 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 by 4 because there were 4 fireworks in the project. The answer was a whopping 1.25 • 10 to the 22nd power tons. Each of those 4 fireworks contains 12,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 TONS of TNT! Running this through the UN website again, we get a fatal distance of 53,563.8443 km. These fireworks will kill EVERYTHING ON EARTH! And that’s just for ONE firework, the combined explosions of all of them have a fatal distance of 85,027.29885 km, that’s from the earth to part of the way to the MOON! Even if the fireworks didn’t destroy the world, they would kill EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH! So please, don’t kick fireworks. You might doom us all. *Closes screen* BUT HEY, THAT’S JUST A THEORY, A SCRATCH THEORY! Thanks for watching-oh wait, um... oh I’ve got it. Thanks for reading!
HELLO INTERNET, AND WELCOME TO SCRATCH THEORY! The show that will be overanalyzing the science and lore of Scratch projects. This is the first episode, and we’re going to start off with a bang! Literally, in @sharkyshar’s project titled “Fireworks”, she kicks a bundle of fireworks, causing the world to explode. Today, we’re going to be figuring out just how deadly those fireworks really are. Thanks to @Spriteman22 for his spinning earth sprite.
