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Slaps Chicken at 3725.95 MPH refers to an idea that the heat generated by hitting a chicken with a hand at 3725.95 miles per hour, or 1665.65 m/s, would be enough to completely cook it. Using the conversion between kinetic energy and thermal energy, a Facebook user came up with the theory, leading to the creation of memes in various templates about it.

Origin

On February 14th, 2019, Reddit user MrWaterplant^[1] posted a question to /r/NoStupidQuestions reading "If kinetic energy is converted into thermal energy, how hard to I have to slap a chicken to cook it?" On February 17th, Facebook user Parker Ormonde^[2] posted a screenshot of himself responding to the question, showing his formula to calculate that a human would have to slap a chicken at 3725.95 MPH to cook it. The post gained over 37,000 reactions and over 167,000 shares (shown below).

Spread

After spreading on Facebook, the post inspired memes on multiple different sites. On iFunny,^[3] a meme about the theory using the Slaps Roof of Car template gained over 47,000 likes (shown below, left). On /r/memes,^[4] a Prequel Meme about the post gained over 23,000 points (shown below, right).

Other posts on Reddit joked about the original question. For example, on /r/dankmemes, user Herripotter^[6] posted a Skyrim Skill Tree parody of the question, gaining over 12,000 points (shown below, left). Meanwhile, on Facebook, Ormonde posted multiple examples shared by other users about the fact. For example, he shared a post by Michael Wolfe^[5] using a Shaggy's Power meme that gained over 5,800 shares (shown below, right).

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