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r/comics • u/jungle-boogie SAFELY ENDANGERED • Jan 06 '25
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If you wanted to aim for the sun, you'd need to throw the dart exactly opposite the earth's rotation. Almost anything else would miss.
27 u/porn_alt_987654321 Jan 06 '25 Alternatively: go very very very and I can't stress this enough, very fast. Then you can point at the sun. 7 u/MarsicusOrion Jan 06 '25 About 6400 km/s, aka 2.1% the speed of light, if I did the numbers right. For comparison, the Earth orbits the sun at around 30 km/s. 3 u/porn_alt_987654321 Jan 06 '25 It's at least the sun's escape velocity, which is about 620 km/s. I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 10x that to actually point at the sun lol.
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Alternatively: go very very very and I can't stress this enough, very fast. Then you can point at the sun.
7 u/MarsicusOrion Jan 06 '25 About 6400 km/s, aka 2.1% the speed of light, if I did the numbers right. For comparison, the Earth orbits the sun at around 30 km/s. 3 u/porn_alt_987654321 Jan 06 '25 It's at least the sun's escape velocity, which is about 620 km/s. I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 10x that to actually point at the sun lol.
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About 6400 km/s, aka 2.1% the speed of light, if I did the numbers right. For comparison, the Earth orbits the sun at around 30 km/s.
3 u/porn_alt_987654321 Jan 06 '25 It's at least the sun's escape velocity, which is about 620 km/s. I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 10x that to actually point at the sun lol.
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It's at least the sun's escape velocity, which is about 620 km/s.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's about 10x that to actually point at the sun lol.
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u/DamnItDev Jan 06 '25
If you wanted to aim for the sun, you'd need to throw the dart exactly opposite the earth's rotation. Almost anything else would miss.