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I don't have the knowledge of physics or math to figure it out, but I suppose we could find something that definitely can rip through someone, like a small cannonball, and figure out how much force it would put on the body, and adjust the mass and size for a baseball and see how much speed you'd need to get that amount of force?
Cannonballs are insanely OP. Mythbusters shot a small cannon once; it blew entirely through their backstop and rolled through a few houses before stopping. Your method will result in an overestimate.
That's okay, an overestimate provides a bracket. If the cannon turns out to be way too much, we know the right speed is somewhere between human-thrown and cannon-fired. Then it's a matter of reducing the parameters until they're barely enough to work.
I was thinking that might be the case, but I'm not sure what would get us closer to the minimum force required to punch holes in someone.
I have an idea. We take the richest person in the world, and gradually shoot them with faster and faster baseballs until we have an answer. If, by unlucky circumstances, the person should perish, we take the next richest person.
What if the previous wounds affect the next shot? You’d need a control with the 2nd richest to confirm the target speed with a fresh impact still does it.
I'm ok with this.
Great idea! Using real people would just be cruel.
As long as their dimensions are identical, the actual force of a cannonball or a baseball hitting a body isn't dramatically different, as it's determined how much force the body can withstand until it's penetrated. – By measuring the initial velocity and the velocity of the ball leaving the body after penetration, you can calculate the energy required to punch a hole through thad body.