If you fly fast enough in one direction can you reach space?
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Yes, if you had a powerful enough gun or rocket motor, you could fire the projectile horizontally and it would end up in orbit. You would need to be doing 11.2km/s to do it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_velocity
comedy dave said:
It's meant to say space but maybe the title was too long.
So, if you were in a plan & you went vertically up say 1.5 miles, then flew horizontally you WOULD eventually end up in space?
A plan in a spa? So, if you were in a plan & you went vertically up say 1.5 miles, then flew horizontally you WOULD eventually end up in space?
I don't get it, if you fly up 1.5miles and then horizontally? You'll fly into the first mountain you encounter.
ZesPak said:
comedy dave said:
It's meant to say space but maybe the title was too long.
So, if you were in a plan & you went vertically up say 1.5 miles, then flew horizontally you WOULD eventually end up in space?
A plan in a spa? So, if you were in a plan & you went vertically up say 1.5 miles, then flew horizontally you WOULD eventually end up in space?
I don't get it, if you fly up 1.5miles and then horizontally? You'll fly into the first mountain you encounter.
comedy dave said:
It's meant to say space but maybe the title was too long.
So, if you were in a plan & you went vertically up say 1.5 miles, then flew horizontally you WOULD eventually end up in space?
Could be wrong - but doesn't horizontal relate to earth? There is no horizontal in space. So you would just keep going around the earth.So, if you were in a plan & you went vertically up say 1.5 miles, then flew horizontally you WOULD eventually end up in space?
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