A human hits the windshield of a spacescraft....
Discussion
How fast was the spacecraft going?
During the many miles in Europe over the last two months, and after countless bugs hitting my windscreen and obliterating themselves in an instant, it made me wonder...
What would happen if a human splatted on the windscreen of a spacecraft?
So if the bug is 5mm, and my vehicle is 2m, and a human is 1.75m, then the spacecraft is 700m tall.
But how fast is the spacecraft going to splat a human in a single go.
I put this question out and got two answers, 65mph or 26,000mph.
During the many miles in Europe over the last two months, and after countless bugs hitting my windscreen and obliterating themselves in an instant, it made me wonder...
What would happen if a human splatted on the windscreen of a spacecraft?
So if the bug is 5mm, and my vehicle is 2m, and a human is 1.75m, then the spacecraft is 700m tall.
But how fast is the spacecraft going to splat a human in a single go.
I put this question out and got two answers, 65mph or 26,000mph.
I think the OP is saying, how big/fast would a spacecraft need to be going to splat a whole human in the same way that a bug is splatted on a windscreen of a car doing 65mph or thereabouts?
It all comes down to the closing speed between the 2, assuming the spacecraft is at least 10x the weight of the human.
I think it's fairly safe to say that if a human hit a spacecraft with a closing speed that is similar to orbital velocity then both would be completely f
ked.
It all comes down to the closing speed between the 2, assuming the spacecraft is at least 10x the weight of the human.
I think it's fairly safe to say that if a human hit a spacecraft with a closing speed that is similar to orbital velocity then both would be completely f
ked.Good question - but I have no idea how to answer it.
You've scaled up the sizes correctly I think.. but speed might not be linear. Mass certainly isn't, so you'd do a good deal more damage to the spacecraft then the bug would to your windscreen I think?
In summary, I have no idea, but I like the question.
You've scaled up the sizes correctly I think.. but speed might not be linear. Mass certainly isn't, so you'd do a good deal more damage to the spacecraft then the bug would to your windscreen I think?
In summary, I have no idea, but I like the question.
grumbledoak said:
How, exactly, do you think this could be made to happen?
Human was launched into a retrograde orbit.I can't imagine anything short of a megaton blast with 52,000 mph of combined kinetic energy.... especially if the craft is nearly a f
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