Take a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ive seen this claim a dozen times. It’s a disc shape. How this thing isn’t going to start flipping and curving its trajectory, or just plain old running out of energy due to air resistance, and not making it out of earth’s atmosphere is beyond me.
gens@programming.dev 1 month ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If it’s like a frisbee, yeah, but it still curves. Now start it spinning like spinning a coin on edge. The curving will be much more dramatic.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Throw it into water or gelatin. At thousands of metres per second the air is going to seem much more dense.
gens@programming.dev 1 month ago
I don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hit the gym, delete the lawyer, face the book.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It didn’t stay solid upon initial blast impact. Probably didn’t even stay liquid.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah it vanished because it vaporized.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I think they were able to track it for at least 2 frames, thus calculate it’s speed.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nope, just one frame. Adds to the myth, when people don’t know the exact speed.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It isn’t speed.