Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 15 hours agoIf you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIf you had a huge slingshot, how much rubber band would you need to send a spaceship into space?Trex202@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 15 hours agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareZwuzelmaus@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·12 hours ago velocity of at least 11 km/s, which is needed free benefit of the equatorial velocity, which is about 0.44 km/h, so that reduces our required speed to “only” 10.56 km/h. How did you go from seconds to hours so quickly? 🤔
minus-squarelitchralee@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 hours agoWhoops, force of habit. Fixed now to not be sizable fractions of the speed of light.
How did you go from seconds to hours so quickly? 🤔
Whoops, force of habit. Fixed now to not be sizable fractions of the speed of light.