• @[email protected]
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    52 months ago

    You’d still be moving some 30km/s around the sun, and need to decelerate from that speed.

    • veroxii
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      102 months ago

      A bit of a woosh. He’s saying you only need to throw someone off a building or out of a plane and they’ll die falling to the ground. No need to leave Earth.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Does the velocity of the earth around the sun enter into it if the projectile doesn’t come anywhere close to leaving earth’s gravitational pull? When I said “at the sun” it was just a direction. A gesture towards the spirit of the original “into the sun.” They won’t reach it. They’ll just be a splat mark [insert parabola math here]-ish meters away.