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Old 11-12-2016, 02:29 AM   #5 (permalink)
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HP is a rate of energy, not a total quantity of energy. Therefore, you can accellerate anything of any mass up to any speed with any HP, given enough time.

As RedDevil points out, it doesn't make sense to talk about HP without also including a time factor.
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