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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down2·1 month 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-squaregens@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoTake a coin and trow it as hard as you can. The curving is not that much.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month 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.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoThrow it into water or gelatin. At thousands of metres per second the air is going to seem much more dense.
minus-squaregens@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoHit the gym, delete the lawyer, face the book.
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.
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.
Throw it into water or gelatin. At thousands of metres per second the air is going to seem much more dense.
I don’t have the arm strength to trow anything at the speed needed to make your analogy work.
Hit the gym, delete the lawyer, face the book.