Comment on Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX
cryball@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoI mean you could stay in space, if you were to reach escape velocity. Heat might be an issue though.
Comment on Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX
cryball@sopuli.xyz 1 year agoI mean you could stay in space, if you were to reach escape velocity. Heat might be an issue though.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
It is theorized now that heat was actually an issue for the steel bore cap that was shot by a nuke at over 150,000 mph.
While its more or less of a joke about “shooting a manhole cover into space”, some think that at least a tiny bit of that bore cap could have made it.