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@@ronaldtreitner1460 it gets far deeper than what he has shown. Bombs out of planes like MOAB don't start like that manhole cover. That's far closer to rifle ballistics the minute fraction of time after the explosion hmmm

Love the Mass Effect reference

Wouldn't it be wild if, over time, traveling through the vacuum of space it collected dust and dirt and rocks until it eventually achieves a form large enough to end a planet and does?

No more dangerous than the Voyagers. They've got RTGs.

@@billbaggins7355well with how fast it was going and how big it already was I’m sure if it hits anything it’s gonna be bad for whatever got hit. 😂

I did the math a while ago. If it made it to space, iirc, it’s not even halfway out of the solar system. Will probably need to redo the math to double check though

"Ludicrous speed, GO!" -Range director, probably.

Sure have - the X-15 manned Aerospace Plane, and the Navajo Cruise Missile, which we flew, but didn't put into service because by that time, we realized that ICBMs were a better idea.

Theoretically since the 1940s

Facts. Also Motrin. And clean socks. Maybe 3 pairs….

​@@BlackViking4547 WHAT? You forget hydration and a banana injection private? 😂

Budd😅 man wanna chat

Yeah man the us geography just decides its angry sometimes

Kinda got that backwards - Meteors are the Shooting Star things. Meteorites are the rocks that land. The ones that detonate in the atmosphere a called "Holy Crap! What was that!" (Tugunska, Chelybinsk - that happens a lot, actually)

The acceleration would have stopped shortly after the cover left its initial position. It would have, very briefly, been decelerated by the atmosphere and then by climbing out of the Earth and then Sun's gravity wells.

@dirtyblueshirt escape velocity definitely exceeded the requirements . But did it reach its max speed before gravity stopped or long afterwards.

@@EarlDennis-l1l its maximum speed would have been right at the moment the force from the gas propelling it matched the forces of gravity and air resistance.

@dirtyblueshirt note that was never a question of when it stopped accelerating however ballistics tells a completely different scenario. This huge potato gun had a velocity of 150k mph. At the 200 mile mark of its flight the earth's atmosphere and gravity are zero. The time frame for a round to gain max velocity out of a barrel is a split second after leaving the barrel that split second is pretty much the entire distance at 150k mph

@@EarlDennis-l1l Gravity doesn't stop. It weakens with distance, but never goes away.

Why not? I hear Nuka Cola may be hitting shelves soon…..

Well, let's see... We vaporized the concrete, shot the lead in to space, and this was in the desert so there's no water...

Fun fact

10:51 well the shit hitting earth is getting in to denser air vs the man hole cover flyn in to thinner air... Man it's basically basic science.. that facker is in Jupiter now

That's a whole different bucket of squid. I've got the RCAF and DND plans (Along with pretty much every other Aver Arrow document - I live in an Aerospace Library), and against the target that they were intended to counter (Mach 2 speed, 60,000' altitude bombers), using the Canadian Air Defense Network with its human -run Direction Centers, given the point where they'd show up enough on the Ground Controlled Intercept Radars, they'd only have been able to intercept about 16-20 aircraft - at a latitude that was, basically that of Boston, Massachusetts, Albany, New York, and Detroit Michigan / Windsor Ontario. Great for Boston, sucks for Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, or Ottawa. What was needed was integration into the computer-controlled USAF SAGE network. But getting SAGE set up was expensive - not just the monster computers, but the networked radars automatically feeding them data. Canada could _maybe_ afford Arrow, could afford SAGE, with U.S. help, but not both. Add to that that the Radar Fire Control System intended for the Arrow (RCA Astra) was a no-go, the intended missiles (Sparrow IIs), were leftovers from a cancelled U.S. Navy project, the intended engines were never properly flight tested, performance estimates were dropping every quarterly report, costs were going nuts, and the Soviets decided that since they couldn't build Mach 2 / 60,000' Intercontinental Bombers, they'd use Ballistic Missiles instead, it didn't have a target. Anything the Soviets were flying could be handled just as well with SAGE and existing airplanes - so your Government went for SAGE, SAGE-integrated F-101B Voodoos, and BOMARC Long Range Surface to Air Missiles - which did the Real World jobs better.

Bernthal for sure lol

Water is actually a pretty good radiation blocker.

Most likely, I mean you can swim in the water inside a nuclear reactor without getting irradiated. Water is pretty good at stopping radiation

Bless your heart.. Was thar part of your liberal script?

The V2 never escaped Earth's gravity because it came back down. Everything in LEO is still in the Earth's gravity well.

If it reentered earth because of the gravity, it never left earth

Yeah it was going like 4x faster and was sent into space like 20 uears earlier. Not only will it beat voyager, it'd beat it by a significant margin. I'm kinda hoping that the manhole cover kept it's shape, just the worlds biggest coin flip and just some alien one day sees this thing rapidly spinning through their solar system and and has an Oumuamua moment thinking this object is a alien spacecraft. Nope just an alien coin gun.

It's there - For example, the Apollo Command Module had what was called a Boost Protective Cover - basically a white-painted cone that was attached to the Launch Escape System (The lattice tower on top) That served to protect the Command Module (Which was silver, to prevent overheating in space) from Aerodynamic Heating during the initial boost through the lower atmosphere. It's a limiting factor on things like Missile Seekers. An early Sidewinder seeker would get cooked by just a few minutes of a low level supersonic run. The radomes on radar-guided missiles have problems with it as well.