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minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·9 days agoThe escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you’d have to be throwing it pretty hard
minus-squareicelimit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agoMan even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoEven if you went to some asteroids that have low escape velocities, a spacecraft still has all of the mass of a spacecraft–probably a few 1000 kg. So you probably can’t get it going fast enough, even if you can escape yourself by jumping.
minus-squareButteryMonkey@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoHave you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoYou could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.
The escape velocity of the moon is 2.38km/s (compared to 11.2km/s on Earth) so you’d have to be throwing it pretty hard
Man even a 5.6 is only 0.9km/s. I thought we could give the moon a ring of bullets.
Even if you went to some asteroids that have low escape velocities, a spacecraft still has all of the mass of a spacecraft–probably a few 1000 kg. So you probably can’t get it going fast enough, even if you can escape yourself by jumping.
I wish I could escape myself…
Have you tried jumping? Sounds like that may be the ticket!
You could probably gradually get it moving across the surface fast enough to escape though.