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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·5 months agoIve 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.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·5 months agoIt didn’t stay solid upon initial blast impact. Probably didn’t even stay liquid.
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoYeah it vanished because it vaporized.
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoI think they were able to track it for at least 2 frames, thus calculate it’s speed.
minus-squaregens@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoTake a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIf 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.
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.
It didn’t stay solid upon initial blast impact. Probably didn’t even stay liquid.
Yeah it vanished because it vaporized.
I think they were able to track it for at least 2 frames, thus calculate it’s speed.
Take a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.
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.