When Tiny Dust Becomes A Cosmic Bomb

When Tiny Dust Becomes A Cosmic Bomb
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Space engineers: "Our spacecraft can withstand extreme conditions!"

Tiny cosmic dust grain at 0.9c: "Hold my relativistic energy."

The kinetic energy of a microscopic dust particle moving at 90% light speed relative to a spacecraft would create an explosion that makes nuclear weapons look like firecrackers. It's basically the universe's way of saying "size doesn't matter when you're moving really, REALLY fast."

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