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What is 1 man-made Object that CAN'T be used as a weapon?build

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What is 1 man-made object that can't be used as a weapon?

Any human-made object that you think can't be used to hurt anybody, post it here!

I will be trying to prove you wrong

RULES:
The object doesn't have to be able to kill anybody, it just has to be able to do damage to them
Please don't post any joke suggestions like nuclear bombs, guns, knives, etc. Try and post something that is impossible to hurt someone with
Also, no subatomic particles, because most of them do end up winning and/or aren’t confirmed to exist, and I don’t want to make the list of winners too long, and keep it for people who can think of something you can actually interact with
DEFINITION OF OBJECT I USE: Any object made up of matter that can be physically touched or interacted with (this does not include things like the Internet, a website, the color blue, etc)

WINNERS:
LittleXMan808 with a Charm Quark
DraconicPiggy with Onium
The_Sky_Rider with a Virtual Particle


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01/18/2024 6:50 pm
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DarthCatMaster99
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a single iron ion
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01/17/2024 3:09 pm
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DarthCatMaster99
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never gonna give you up
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01/07/2024 6:48 pm
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Chooombles
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a png file of a cat
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01/08/2024 5:35 pm
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Kypickle
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not an object
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01/07/2024 9:43 pm
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HoboMaggot
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One does not simply touch a png file of a cat
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01/07/2024 4:51 pm
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NatsMinecraft
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An atom... Just an atom.
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01/07/2024 5:27 pm
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Kypickle
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what type of atom there's 118 different types
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01/18/2024 6:50 pm
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DarthCatMaster99
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titanium
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01/07/2024 4:11 pm
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Mcomputer
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on a computer
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01/07/2024 5:27 pm
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Kypickle
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"on a computer" is not an object
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01/07/2024 4:11 pm
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Mcomputer
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pixel
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01/07/2024 5:27 pm
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Kypickle
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shoot it at someone very fast
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01/07/2024 3:17 pm
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DHBloom
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A few Questions about the rules
Applicability of Objects
1. Can the object occur naturally or are humans the only viable source?
2. Are objects allowed to change between initial definition and hurting someone e.g. does a particle decaying mean the particle caused the harm despite the fact the particle has decayed?
3. How indirect can the harm caused by an object be, for example, a stray electron could change a value on a computer which could cause harm dependant on the value changed
4. is simple accelerating anything to near the speed of light turning it into a weapon, or would the accelerator be considered the weapon?
5. Inversely would a weapon without ammo be allowed ammo unless specified otherwise?

Object availability (can't and couldn't)
6. What about something like the voyager spacecraft. if an object is manmade and heading away from humanity or remote enough in location is it a weapon with the assumption that we can retrieve it for the sake of using it to harm anybody?
7. what about something that was man made but no longer exists, is it remade for the test? What about if the particles that where originally part of it have changed from fission or fusion?

Other
8. Is the question whether it can be used as a weapon or cause harm?
9. What degree of harm is required. would an alpha particle ionising a single atom count as harm? Does the method have to have a guarantee that it could cause damage? or does the chance that it theoretically could cause damage enough? e.g. if a small amount of radiation could cause cancer but likely wouldn't. would it still count?
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01/07/2024 3:59 pm
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Kypickle
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1. human or non human is fine
2. if something decays it still counts
3. it has to be direct (the electron would have to directly hit someones dna and give them cancer or whatever)
4. accelerating something really fast and hitting someone with it counts as using the object to hurt someone (its the bullet that hurts not the gun)
5. No, it has to be the object itself, not the ammo
6. anything we send into space we can catch up to given enough time or return it
7. if something doesnt exist it cant be used to hurt somebody and is not an object
8. anything that can cause harm (not mentally)
9. If it does damage to your body more than what you usually experience (technically your sense of touch is just very light levels of pain but just touching something doesnt count)and it doesnt have to actually hurt, it just has to do damage (cancer example from earlier)
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01/07/2024 4:46 pm
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DHBloom
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Then what about something like the parker solar probe, due to its mission involving great proximity to the sun it is likely it will burn up before anyone could retrieve it to cause harm to another, yet until it does it would still fit the criteria of being a man made object and there is no chance of anyone retrieving it prior to then.
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01/07/2024 5:28 pm
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Kypickle
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it reaches an aphelion out past the orbit of Venus so we could send somebody there and have them get hit by it
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01/07/2024 5:52 pm
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DHBloom
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After November this year, it will complete its final aphelion past Venus, meaning past then it could meet the criteria
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01/07/2024 12:41 pm
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DarthCatMaster99
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the heaviest object in the world: a revolving service structure of the launch pad that is located at the Kennedy Space Center. It weighs just shy of 5 million pounds. too heavy to be moved by anything. including earthquakes
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01/07/2024 3:53 pm
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Kypickle
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you could push someone and they could hit it
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01/07/2024 12:37 pm
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DarthCatMaster99
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Bacillus F
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01/07/2024 3:54 pm
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Kypickle
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what is that
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01/03/2024 11:48 pm
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MaceYT
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a steak.... ITS FUCKING RAW!
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01/04/2024 4:06 pm
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Kypickle
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hit someone with it
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01/03/2024 11:09 pm
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madamepestilence
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I'm impressed this thread is still going after two years
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01/07/2024 3:36 pm
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JustaFlqmingo
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fr
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01/03/2024 10:22 pm
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Dream12346
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a plushie
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01/04/2024 4:05 pm
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Kypickle
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stuff it down someones throat
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01/02/2024 12:47 pm
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User4889618G
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Fertilizer could be used to scratch or choke people
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01/02/2024 12:03 pmhistory
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Sul4ur
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There are no objects that can't be used as a weapon.
The reason is:
  1. Any object that has a physical form always has an atom. You can just rearrange the protons and neutrons, which will make an explosion
  2. Throw it at the speed of light. Even if it is a needle, it will be 3 times deadlier than a nuclear bomb.
  3. "Touching it" is considered as a small harm, therefore all objects would be a weapon.
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01/03/2024 11:18 pm
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Detective Azura
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Even without going with advanced physics, literally anything can kill you if used at the right moment and a particular way.
Using a glass bottle on someone's head would hurt a lot, juice can be used to drown people by pouring it into a tub, and a spoon can be used to wack someone.

There is a lot more, but another thing I would like to point out: Since no matter can truly be created or destroyed, it is entirely possible your favorite figurine was once a weapon used in combat. And vice versa.
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12/23/2023 4:51 pm
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Weirdness
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Words
Words can hurt your feelings but not you
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12/23/2023 5:18 pm
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Kypickle
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words aren’t objects
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12/23/2023 7:50 pm
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Weirdness
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah that checks out
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12/20/2023 8:07 amhistory
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ThatOneIdiotNamedGhoul
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A non existing atom, which is used of to make air, that of is non existing therefore it does not damage, man-made because scientists made this atom but it disappeared
Edit: read rules so nvm
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12/19/2023 7:17 pm
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ShyStuff
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A bubble
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12/19/2023 8:12 pm
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Kypickle
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pop in eye
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12/19/2023 7:11 pmhistory
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Froggy878
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A single grain of flour.

It's not big enough to cause any harm due to it getting in someone's eyes, and it's not big enough to be a choking hazard.
And it's so little that it won't cause any harm through ingestion.
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12/19/2023 8:12 pm
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Kypickle
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you could shoot it at someone really fast and it would hurt
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12/19/2023 10:06 pm
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HoboMaggot
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Assuming a grain of flour is 1 milligram, and it is shot out at 1km per second; For Kinetic Energy = (1/2)*mass[kg]*velocity[m/s]^2:
KE = 0.5*0.000001*1000^2 = 0.0005 Joules
A normal paintball hitting a person would have 25 Joules.

So a grain of flour traveling one-tenths the speed of a rocket near space is going to hurt 50x less than a paintball.

Also if literally any of the physical options that other people have suggested travel in similar speeds or higher it'll hurt more most of the time
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12/20/2023 6:46 am
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Kypickle
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yep
i don’t like using this option but usually if a suggestion is good enough I have to
the flour doesn’t have to be on earth, if you put it in a rocket and launch it into space on a direct opposite trajectory of the iss, it’ll hit it going several miles per second
then by some chance alignment there’s someone outside the space station at the time and you hit them they’ll feel it
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12/19/2023 6:22 pm
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GoggleD0GG
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an eye
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12/19/2023 6:47 pm
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Kypickle
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choke
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12/19/2023 7:30 pm
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GoggleD0GG
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eye
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12/19/2023 5:59 pmhistory
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PaintsplattersMC
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a single electron neutrino producd in a manmade nuclear reactor. so tiny, that you can fit some 200 million of them in 1 electron.



even if it hits an atm/cell, it's so small and has so little energy it will not do any damage (which is close to 0 chance anyways they are so small, they fly right past the atom nucleus and electron in between them Most electron neutrinos will never even come in contact with another particle.








they do indeed have mass tho. unlike photons which have 0 mass, neutrinos do, albeit very tiny
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12/19/2023 6:53 pm
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Kypickle
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that would win, but i don’t allow subatomic particles anymore because i’d get too many winners and I want to celebrate the people who can think of something that can actually be interacted with
i didn’t make this clear enough in the rules, just edited it
so yeah you would win
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12/19/2023 4:58 pm
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TheMcPig
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Data?

It's an interesting one, but it is technically an object, since it takes up space (sorta)



Also yes I am reviving this post lol
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12/19/2023 6:49 pm
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Kypickle
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i don’t consider it an object
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11/24/2023 3:39 am
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LiThe1st
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a word, you didn't specify what type of pain, whether that be physical or mental, soooo...
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11/24/2023 8:23 am
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Kypickle
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not an object
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11/24/2023 7:51 pm
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LiThe1st
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hmmm good point
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