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These Russian Missiles Are Getting Out Of Hand (And Breaking Physics)

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2 months ago 6.3K views 0 shares

These Russian Missiles Are Getting Out Of Hand (And Breaking Physics)

The headline claims these missiles travel at 10 times the speed of light? Einstein's ghost just spat out his coffee! Nothing with mass can exceed light speed (300,000 km/s), let alone multiply it by 10. Even the most advanced hypersonic missiles barely reach Mach 10 (3.4 km/s). This is like claiming your grandma's scooter can teleport across galaxies! The physics police would like a word with this headline writer... preferably at sub-light speeds.

Cosmic Debris: Earth's Accidental Space Ambassador

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3 months ago 26.6K views 0 shares

Cosmic Debris: Earth's Accidental Space Ambassador

Imagine being an advanced civilization with technology we can't even comprehend, chilling 2049 light years away, and suddenly your alien astronomers detect a rogue manhole cover breaking your planet's atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Plot twist: it's just human engineering gone hilariously wrong! This references the 1957 Pascal-B nuclear test where a steel manhole cover was accidentally launched at an estimated 125,000 mph (potentially 5-6 times escape velocity). Scientists believe it might be the fastest human-made object ever and could have actually escaped Earth's gravity. Somewhere in the cosmos, there's probably a confused alien filling out paperwork about "unidentified flying infrastructure."