Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

At supersonic speeds, air cannot smoothly part for you. You must pierce it, which largely accounts for the difference in fuselage designs between subsonic and supersonic planes. For this reason, the air on your body, if ejecting at these speeds, might as well be a brick wall. https://t.co/psN8aoAT2e — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 9, 2022

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Late to the party here, but In this year’s @TopGunMovie, @TomCruise’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed. He survived with no injuries. At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm. Just sayin’. https://t.co/YP9IKVc8VS — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 9, 2022

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When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy — the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT. A situation that human physiology is not designed to survive. So, no. Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 9, 2022