You're going to go. Oh, Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, where the closest to failing a test I've ever come was my driver's test.

It's no joke, by the way.

I was one point away from failing my driver's test.

In Ohio, we have this stupid thing called the maneuverability test, which tests zero real life skills.

And if the instructor had noticed that I actually did touch the cone rather than being just really close to it, I totally would have failed, but ha ha!

But seriously, just give us a parallel parking challenge. It would have saved me so much embarrassment during my first six years out in LA

until I finally forced myself to learn how to do it the old-fashioned way going to a school

parking lot on a

fully functioning adult teaching himself essential driving skills that he should have learned when he was 16 year old.

But enough about me and my frustrations with parallel parking,

let's talk Mario Kart and calculate the

lethality of Mario Kart's most feared and most deadly weapon. No Reggie, not

the blooper. I'm talking about the blue shell, the Victory Slayer, the Great Equalizer, which once used

soars to the racer in first place, circles around them like a vulture circling its prey and

then dives down, stopping them dead in their tracks as the shell explodes into a fiery inferno.

So just how deadly is this weapon of mass cart destruction?

Let's crack open our physics textbooks to find out.

The key to determining the force of the blue shell

lies with momentum.

Now, momentum is the measurement of the motion of an object,

and it's calculated by multiplying the mass of the object

by its velocity.

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