Not the moon, but this comic would work on some asteroids.
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black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I mean I know it’s a joke but you can’t actually break orbit just by throwing something from the moon, right?
Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
How small would it have to be?
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This comment makes me want to play some Kerbal Space Program again, where you can launch yourself into orbit from Minmus (the 2nd moon) with a jump.
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nor can you throw a spaceship around on the Moon.
So maybe that cartoon isn’t about the Moon.
grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
When it eventually lands, they’re in for a hike.
Valthorn@feddit.nu 2 months ago
If your fastball is 5324 mph, give the MLB a call!
smeg@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you’d have to be throwing it pretty hard
mkwt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even if you went to some asteroids that have low escape velocities, a spacecraft still has all of the mass of a spacecraft–probably a few 1000 kg. So you probably can’t get it going fast enough, even if you can escape yourself by jumping.
zedgeist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wish I could escape myself…
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 2 months ago
Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Man even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.