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[-] IDew@lemm.ee 63 points 4 months ago

When Pascal-B was detonated, the blast went straight up the test shaft, launching the cap into the atmosphere at a speed of more than 66 km/s (41 mi/s; 240,000 km/h; 150,000 mph).

Woaw. Just wow.

Very interesting article, thanks for quoting it lol

[-] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 49 points 4 months ago

For reference, earths escape velocity at the surface is about 11 km/s. I'm not sure how quickly the cap would slow down, but if it hadn't been vaporised it surely would be orbiting the sun right now.

Also, the escape velocity from the Sun at Earths distance would be 16.6 km/s on top of earths speed, so depending on the direction it could've escaped the suns orbit as well.

But it was most likely vaporised

[-] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

I remember reading somewhere that it would be the farthest manmade object from earth, far outpacing the Voyager spacecrafts, assuming it didn't vaporize.

[-] fulcrummed@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

Voyager 3: “It’s a funny story actually…”

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

*record scratch*
"You're probably wondering how I got here..."

[-] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

They do something fun with this in the three body problem. It's amazing and makes a ton of sense but in the real world the application will probably be a lot cleaner.

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