[Cleo]

Originally Posted by cd34

just in case you wondered What happens if a pitcher throws a ball at 90% of the speed of light.

The shell of x-rays and superheated plasma expands outward and upward, swallowing the backstop, both teams, the stands, and the surrounding neighborhood—all in the first microsecond.

Suppose you’re watching from a hilltop outside the city. The first thing you see is a blinding light, far outshining the sun. This gradually fades over the course of a few seconds, and a growing fireball rises into a mushroom cloud. Then, with a great roar, the blast wave arrives, tearing up trees and shredding houses.

Everything within roughly a mile of the park is leveled, and a firestorm engulfs the surrounding city. The baseball diamond is now a sizable crater, centered a few hundred feet behind the former location of the backstop.

Terrorists are going to read that and try to breed humans that can throw a ball to 90% the speed of light.
(lucky for us terrorists rely on a book of fairy tales instead of actual science)