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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It didn’t stay solid upon initial blast impact. Probably didn’t even stay liquid.

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- Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah it vanished because it vaporized.
  
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I think they were able to track it for at least 2 frames, thus calculate it’s speed.
    
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    Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nope, just one frame. Adds to the myth, when people don’t know the exact speed.
    
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    merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It isn’t speed.
    
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gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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 ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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- merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Throw it into water or gelatin. At thousands of metres per second the air is going to seem much more dense.
  
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  - gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.
    
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    merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hit the gym, delete the lawyer, face the book.
    
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