• Question: How close are you to being able to propel something at 90,000 metres/s?

    Asked by marlonsamaidanryo to Andrew, Emma, Marianne on 24 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 22 Jun 2010:

      Hello marlonsamaidanryo, Don’t know if you are into space and spaceflight but the folk on this site seem interstedin your stated speed.

      http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=21886.0

      Personally, I’m no where near this property but I can serve a tennis ball over 110mph…
      You got any skills like that?

    • Photo: Emma Pilgrim

      Emma Pilgrim answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Hello

      Me personally – not very far at all as I am not that type of scientist. I am a biologist and I don’t tend to need to do that type of thing!

    • Photo: Andrew Maynard

      Andrew Maynard answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      Hi marlonsamaidantyo,

      Me personally? Not at all! That’s pretty fast – over two hundred times the speed of sound! In fact, it’s faster than a rocket needs to go to leave the earth and get into orbit!

      I’m thinking there must be something special about 90,000 m/s that you know and I don’t – any hints?

    • Photo: Marianne Baker

      Marianne Baker answered on 24 Jun 2010:

      I’m afraid that’s not what I do at all, but at a guess I’d say the particles at the LHC are already going faster than that! But I would have to check…

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  • Photo: Marianne

    Marianne commented on :

    There you go! Try to get your head around those numbers. 27km, 11,000 times per second!! What?! :/

    (at least I think that’s what it said when I watched it; can’t get the sound to work on this laptop!)