Take a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago
I don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Hit the gym, delete the lawyer, face the book.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It didn’t stay solid upon initial blast impact. Probably didn’t even stay liquid.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah it vanished because it vaporized.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think they were able to track it for at least 2 frames, thus calculate it’s speed.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nope, just one frame. Adds to the myth, when people don’t know the exact speed.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It isn’t speed.