There's A New Record For The Fastest Human-Made Object: 394,736 MPH! - The Autopian

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• btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is 632 megameters (million meters) per hour. The speed of light is 1.080,000 megameters per hour. So this object is traveling 0.58% of light speed.

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  • Modva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    0.058%, but impressive nonetheless.

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    • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The other thing that's sort of impressive is it gives us an idea of the sheer scale of the speed of light. The fastest macro object we've ever created (I'm sure there's tiny things we've made and then gotten going really fast with a particle accelerator) can only go 0.058% of the speed of light. There's this speed limit of the universe at c, but it's so fast we can't even hit 0.1% of that speed limit.

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  • Toylerrr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lights fast wth slow down

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• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Something finally beat the manhole cover we yeeted off the planet in the 50s? Impressive.

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For the non-clickers of the link (like myself):
  It’s gonna be the Parker Solar Probe, skimming the sun’s atmosphere in ever tighter and faster elipses with each orbit, gaining more and more speed with each pass.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is roughly triple the previous record, fyi

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