Take a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hit the gym, delete the lawyer, face the book.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It didn’t stay solid upon initial blast impact. Probably didn’t even stay liquid.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah it vanished because it vaporized.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think they were able to track it for at least 2 frames, thus calculate it’s speed.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nope, just one frame. Adds to the myth, when people don’t know the exact speed.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It isn’t speed.