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0 pointshacker_98y ago0 comments

An airplane goes roughly 500km/h. Elons rocket was going 20000km/h - so I think it's about 40x worse actually. Not to mention a rocket goes straight down so none of that speed is lost.

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the84728y ago

> Elons rocket was going 20000km/h

In space. I don't think it would survive that in the lower atmosphere. And a lot of danger comes from the fuel, not the kinetic energy.

eutectic8y ago

And 1600x worse by kinetic energy.

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