An Idea For A Moth

$cite-your-sources: OP didn’t provide a source, and Snopes lists this under Unaswerables. I’m assuming you meant venomous, as in spiders that kill you by biting you. Deaths from spider bites are definitely rare - according to this, no recorded cases after 1979 in fucking Australia, where everything is out to kill you. (That page looks dodgy, but it’s from a museum affiliated with the University of Washington and I can’t be bothered to look for a better source.) What about the dangers posed by those popping champagne corks? Okay, let’s get some physics up in here. I promise it will me painless, and I won’t make you come do any of the calculations on the board. I assume the intended cause of death would be some sort of head injury. This page (by someone at the University of Edinburgh) states that the force required to simply fracture the human skull is 73 Newtons. (Warning: that page has pictues, and they are gruesome.) The exit velocity of a cork can be anything from 24.8km/h to a theoretical maximum of 100km/h. (Again, not a great source, but I have my limits.) 100km/h equals roughly 28m/s. We all know that F = dp/dt = d(mv)/dt. A reasonable estimate for impact time would be 0.2 seconds. (A number I got from a physics forum, not thin air, not that there’s much difference.) Therefore, the mass a champagne cork would need to have to fracture a human skull is m = Ft/v = 43 N*0.2 s / 28 m/s = 0.307… kg So, even at a velocity that you won’t encounter at a regular New Year’s party, the cork would have to weigh over 300 grams, or 0.66 pounds. Granted, there is a lot of hand-waving involved in that calculation, but that still doesn’t sound all that likely. There is one well-documented case of death by champagne cork:$

cite-your-sources:

OP didn’t provide a source, and Snopes lists this under Unaswerables.

I’m assuming you meant venomous, as in spiders that kill you by biting you. Deaths from spider bites are definitely rare - according to this, no recorded cases after 1979 in fucking Australia, where everything is out to kill you. (That page looks dodgy, but it’s from a museum affiliated with the University of Washington and I can’t be bothered to look for a better source.)

What about the dangers posed by those popping champagne corks? Okay, let’s get some physics up in here. I promise it will me painless, and I won’t make you come do any of the calculations on the board.

I assume the intended cause of death would be some sort of head injury. This page (by someone at the University of Edinburgh) states that the force required to simply fracture the human skull is 73 Newtons. (Warning: that page has pictues, and they are gruesome.) The exit velocity of a cork can be anything from 24.8km/h to a theoretical maximum of 100km/h. (Again, not a great source, but I have my limits.)

100km/h equals roughly 28m/s. We all know that F = dp/dt = d(mv)/dt. A reasonable estimate for impact time would be 0.2 seconds. (A number I got from a physics forum, not thin air, not that there’s much difference.) Therefore, the mass a champagne cork would need to have to fracture a human skull is

m = Ft/v = 43 N*0.2 s / 28 m/s = 0.307… kg

So, even at a velocity that you won’t encounter at a regular New Year’s party, the cork would have to weigh over 300 grams, or 0.66 pounds. Granted, there is a lot of hand-waving involved in that calculation, but that still doesn’t sound all that likely.