Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg

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Today's trivia was started by an interesting question around the Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg. Thus we'll see where this takes us.

The latest understanding of Black Holes was used for the rendering of the scenes in Interstellar

How many Sandwich Sandwich scotch eggs would be required to create a mass large enough to collapse under its own gravitational field, thus creating a black hole?

Recommended units:

• Capacity of an English bowler hat
• 45 foot truck (45 tons)
• Capacity of the House of Lords
• Solar Masses (1 Solar Mass = 1.9 to the power of 30 kg)

The current understanding of black holes if that they can form from a start about three times the mass of our own Sun. Estimating one scotch egg at 0.5 kg gives us 12 nonillion kg.

Taken from the BBC Two series Human Universe

Which falls faster in a vacuum? A Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg or a feather?

It is clear that unless the Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg is an exotic material, it will fall much like the bowling ball. However if the distance is sufficient and the mass of the Scotch Egg is high enough, it will draw the feather to it under its own gravity.

What velocity might be required to penetrate the reactive armour of a modern Challenger main battle tank with a Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg?

Modern main battle tanks use sophisticated armour, for example the Chobham reactive armour of the British Challenger tanks. Composed of ceramic tiles encased in a metal matrix and bonded to a backing plate by several elastic layers, it would take a truly mighty Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg to defeat such armour.

Misusing some sensible calculations from here if we compressed the Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg into the size of 1cm sphere and fired it directly at a sheet of 1cm thick plate steel, it might only need a velocity of 126m/s to penetrate. Clearly we're going to need a larger Scotch Egg.

How much damage could be potentially dealt with a single Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg under Dungeons and Dragons rules? Official D&D Rules V3.4

This one really depends on how you classify the Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg.

Working from If we consider some of the possible options we get the following list

• Inappropriatley Sized Weapons: -2 attack penalty for each size class difference. -4 penalty if the creature is not proficient with the weapon.
• Improvised Weapons: Automatic -4 penalty for non-proficiency, can cause critical hit, can be thrown.
• Thrown Weapons: Uses character's Strength modifier, One handed weapons count as standard action. Can cause critical hit.

Clearly we should treat the Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg as an improvised thrown weapon and give it a bonus to critical hits for good measure!

Can you suggest some collective nouns for the Sandwich Sandwich Scotch Egg?

• A tumble of Scotch Eggs
• A collapse of Scotch Eggs

Any other suggestions?