With how hard he throws it, shouldn't this thing be decapitating people or cutting them in half or something?
>>144299925It's only sharp when the plot demands it
>>144299925Of the "street" characters he only isn't stronger than Spider-Man. So Cap is pretty capable of throwing his shield with enough strenght to dismember someone without any superhuman durability.
>>144299925He’s smart enough to know how hard to throw it… I think
It's also supposed to negate kinetic energy or something like that, so it can stop punches from the Hulk, yet we see him bashing heads in with it all the time.So basically, what >>144300116 said, it has its stated properties only when it's plot relevant.
>>144299925it absorbs all vibration so he shouldn't be able to throw it at allit should be more immovable than Thor's hammer, sitting there getting really, really hotcomic books
>>144302109What the hot fuck do you think vibrations even are?
>>144299925He knows how to throw it hard enough to still have an impact but avoid casualties when they aren't necessary
>>144302109I should not be able to bounce at all.
>>144302918kinetic energyif the shield absorbs all kinetic energy, that energy has to stay in the shieldso either the shield can get incredibly dense or it can get incredibly hot, and since there's no mechanism for metals to increase their mass by absorbing energy, it has to get hot>>144303392yep
>>144303464>kinetic energyThat is wrong. Hitting a ball with a bat is kinetic energy, but it's not a vibration. Sound is a vibration, because force is applied in one direction and then the direction is reversed. It's the reason why there's a difference between resistance and impedance.>it has to get hotUnless it rapidly radiates all that heat back out as infrared.>>144303392Again, that would depend on the elasticity of the metal, which has nothing to do with vibration.
>>144305751>Hitting a ball with a bat is kinetic energy, but it's not a vibrationthis isn't even technically correct, as the applied force of the action "hitting a ball with a bat" isn't a real-world force, merely theoreticalactually hitting a ball with a bat causes both the ball and the bat to vibrate (as waste during the energy transfer) while imparting most of the energy of the swing from the bat to the ball, which continues to have a measurable wave function caused by the impact of the bat as it travels>Unless it rapidly radiates all that heat back out as infrared.which would make it hot to the touch; it can't radiate out "all that heat" so quickly that it doesn't ever get hot to the touch or carry residual heat with it, because (other than defying thermodynamics, which it's going to do either way) that would rapidly cause it to supercool; unless you want to get into the theoretical "ideal temperature" of the crystal structure of vibranium, the metal which is called vibranium because it absorbs vibration, which leads us to>>144305751>that would depend on the elasticity of the metal, which has nothing to do with vibration.again, you're assuming that an object in motion has real-world properties but also behaves as an ideal theoretical, which vibranium reputedly does not, as it apparently absorbs all vibration (which is why it's called vibranium, the metal that absorbs all vibration)if it strikes a solid object, instead of the force of the impact being shared between that object and the vibranium, the vibranium (which absorbs all vibration or so we're told) absorbs all of the energy; you could crash a car into it at 80 mph and live because all of the energy of your vehicle's impact would be easily absorbed by the vibranium (a magnitude of forces we regularly see Cap's shield easily absorb in film, cartoon and print)for the same reason it absorbs that force - as waste vibration or as a direct impact - you shouldn't ever be able to lift or throw it
The only thing that's relatively consistent is that it's considered the most bullshit durable piece of equipment in Marvel.
>>144302109>it absorbs all vibrationBut it's also made of adamantium, in addition to the vibranium. So... who knows.>>144300236This, also I don't think it's supposed to be sharp at all.
>>144305751No, he's right. If the shield consistently absorbed kinetic energy(like it's usually said to in regards to bullets and energy blasts) then it shouldn't be able to bounce. But nobody cares about that nerd shit because it's cool to watch cap ricochet the shield off a mook's head even though a few pages earlier, he used the shield to chop an alien/robot in half
