Directorate Officer
[member="Elaine Thul"], I'll be taking over this submission as well.
The physical factors involved to just get that perfect effect aren't likely going regularly happen. Here are some example factors that could easily change that.
The wall might be very thin, which means that the ball bearing goes through it. The wall might be relatively soft or weak, allowing the balls to penetrate and become embedded in the wall. The walls might so resilient and the ball bearings so weak that they shatter. The ball bearings might be used on a high gravity world, which could again yet another wrinkle into how these function.
I should also note that once an object ricochets, it typically is moving at a much slower rate since some of its kinetic energy is transferred to the original object that it hit. This means that it's unlikely that the bounced ball bearing is going to do much damage since it'll be moving at a substantially lower speed.
While it is understandable that in such an explosion, there may be some ball bearings that do bounce and ricochet, these occurrences are an exception to the rule rather than the usual occurrence.
The physical factors involved to just get that perfect effect aren't likely going regularly happen. Here are some example factors that could easily change that.
The wall might be very thin, which means that the ball bearing goes through it. The wall might be relatively soft or weak, allowing the balls to penetrate and become embedded in the wall. The walls might so resilient and the ball bearings so weak that they shatter. The ball bearings might be used on a high gravity world, which could again yet another wrinkle into how these function.
I should also note that once an object ricochets, it typically is moving at a much slower rate since some of its kinetic energy is transferred to the original object that it hit. This means that it's unlikely that the bounced ball bearing is going to do much damage since it'll be moving at a substantially lower speed.
