SCP 096, one of the scariest SCPs in the foundation,
is famous for reaching just about anyone that
remotely looks at its face. Whether you’re
on an airplane or in a submarine on the bottom
of the ocean, chances are the shy guy will
get you. But what if we sent someone in space,
and made him or her look at an SCP 096 photograph?
Would the shy guy manage to reach the victim?
In this SCP Exploration episode, we try to
answer this question.
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---can SCP 096 survive in space?
Before we start thinking about triggering
SCP 096 from space, we first need to answer
a very important question that will determine
the success of this experiment, namely if
SCP 096 can even survive in space. As discussed
in our SCP 096 origin story video, which you
should definitely check out if you haven't
already, the shy guy is of human origin and
mutated into what he is today as a result
of another SCP, namely 1529. And as we all
know, humans can't survive in space due to
the extremely low pressure and lack of oxygen.
SCP 096 is heavily mutated, however, so it
may survive, but we'll need to find proof
in order to say for certain. We discover the
first piece of information in the incident
report when SCP 096 was triggered by a d class
located in the bottom of the tonga trench,
the second deepest ocean trench after the
marianas trench. when the d class looks at
the photograph, the shy guy immediately breaches
containment and begins travelling towards
its victim. After reaching the ocean surface,
096 swims the 35 000 feet or about 10 kilometers
needed to reach the submarine in the trench.
And of course, Diving that deep underwater
takes some time, even for the shy guy, and
the anomaly has no oxygen supply during that
time. And secondly, we remember that during
the last SCP 096 containment breach, that
is described in detail In the shy guy’s
wiki entry, it is stated that practically
all of the anomaly’s internal organs were
shot out with heavy weapons, and that 096
lost nearly all of its blood, but this didn’t
stop the anomaly. So we can assume that SCP
096 either doesn't need to breathe at all,
given the fact that it can survive without
internal organs, or can hold its breath for
extended periods of time. All this means that
should SCP 096 somehow find itself in outer
space, it would most likely survive. So with
this new knowledge in mind, we can go back
to our little space experiment. What happens
when the d-class looks at an SCP 096 photograph,
while in space?
---what happens when the d-class looks at
the photograph?
When the d class looks at the photograph,
096 will breach containment, as it usually
does when it is triggered, and will immediately
try to get as close to its victim as possible,
which in this case would mean going right
under the space craft. However, in order for
an object to remain in space, it needs to
orbit around earth at a given speed, so that
the gravitational and centrifugal forces cancel
each other out. And in low earth orbit, the
most common orbital path for manned space
craft, this means orbiting at a speed of around
5 miles per second or around 8 kilometers
per second. So in order for it to get right
under the space station, 096 would need to
run at least as fast. But can the shy guy
even run at such speeds? In order to say,
we need to go back to the 096 tonga trench
incident report, where we notice that the
distance from the d-class to the shy guy is
redacted, but is written in kilometers and
is comprised of 3 numbers. This means that
is must be between 100 and 999 kilometers,
so we can assume an average distance of 550
kilometers or about 340 miles. And a bit later,
it is stated that SCP 096 takes about 40 minutes
to reach the trench, and if we use these parameters
to calculate the shy guy’s average speed,
we get 825 kilometers per hour or about 510
miles per hour. And because the area in a
340 mile or 550 kilometer radius around the
tonga trench is mainly ocean, this means that
SCP 096 swam with an average speed of 510
mph or 825 kmh. But humans can sprint much
faster than they can swim. If we compare usain
bolt’s record breaking 100 meter sprint
to Michael phelps’ swimming world record,
we see that sprinting is about 5 times faster.
SCP 096 is a humanoid, so we can apply this
ratio to it as well, meaning that it should
theoretically be able to run up to 2550 mph
or about 4125 kph. But unfortunately, this
is nowhere near the speed of a space station
in orbit, because 8 kilometers per second
equals to around 18 000 miles per hour or
about 28 800 kilometers per hour, which is
7 times faster than SCP 096’s estimated
running speed. This means that on paper, the
shy guy isn’t physically capable of running
fast enough to get under the space station,
so right away, things aren’t looking very
promising. However, there is one piece of
information in SCP 096’s wiki entry that
may speak otherwise. It is stated that the
shy guy’s documented running speeds vary
from ordinary running speeds to thousands
of kilometers per hour, and seem to depend
on the distance from its target. So if the
d-class is located in space, the distance
from 096 to the victim will be very long,
and this may allow the shy guy to run a whole
lot faster. But even if SCP 096 can’t run
that fast, this doesn’t mean that it doesn’t
stand a chance of reaching the target. Because
if it is smart enough, it can analyze the
trajectory of the space station, and perform
a stationary jump in such a location, so that
it perfectly intersects the space station’s
orbit. And we think this is plausible, because
the shy guy anomalously knows by whom and
where his face was looked at, and always knows
the fastest way to its target. So in conclusion,
even though the space station is travelling
at incredible speeds, it would still be theoretically
possible for SCP 096 to reach it. And now,
we come to the most important question. Could
the shy guy reach the necessary altitude in
order to kill the d-class, namely 250 miles
or 400 kilometers? And how would SCP 096 get
up there?
---can SCP 096 get up to its target?
The first thing that comes to mind when we
imagine SCP 096 trying to attack someone that
is located in space is the shy guy jumping,
of course. And indeed, given the fact that
096 hasn’t been seen capable of teleportation
or bending reality, this looks like the only
possibility. So how fast would SCP 096 need
to jump, in order to reach the necessary altitude,
and would it even be capable of such a jump?
Well if we assumed that gravity didn’t change
with altitude, and ignored air resistance,
we can easily calculate a rough estimate.
We won’t bore you with the math, the answer
is around 2,8 kilometers per second, or about
1,7 miles per second. However, humans can’t
jump as fast as they can run. If we calculate
the speed that nfl combine athletes’ jump
with, when they perform a vertical leap and
compare this with their running speed, we
see that it is about half of their sprinting
speed, and given the fact that the shy guy
is a humanoid, we can apply this ratio to
it him as well. This means that if SCP 096
needs to jump at 1,7 miles per second to reach
the d-class in space, it would need to be
able to run at about 3,4 miles per second.
And even though this is still 5 times faster
than SCP 096’s estimated running speed,
we have good reason to believe it can run
much faster in such a circumstance, as we
saw in its wiki article. So in the end, to
answer the question whether SCP 096 can reach
someone in space, the answer is that we can’t
say for certain, because it all depends on
exactly how fast the shy guy can actually
run, which is something we don’t know. And
given the fact that launching an astronaut
in space is extremely expensive, it is unlikely
that the SCP foundation would challenge SCP
096 like this any time soon. Perhaps a good
way to find out if the shy guy can reach someone
in space would be to have someone who is very
far away from 096, on the other side of the
planet, for example, look at a 096 photograph,
and see if the shy guy can run as fast as
the necessary speed we calculated. Or better
yet, we can forget about challenging SCP 096’s
abilities, which almost lead to an xk scenario
in the past, and instead focus on trying to
terminate the extremely dangerous anomaly.
Humanity’s safety, and not answering interesting
questions is the SCP foundation’s main priority,
after all.
This concludes our SCP 096 vs someone in space
video. So what do you think, can SCP 096 jump
up to low earth orbit? And are there are any
other SCP scenarios that you would like us
to explore? Tell us in the comments below.
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