righthandtypist t1_is3de9w wrote on October 13, 2022 at 12:24 AM

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Ah, I wasn't sure if speed mattered in the case of an air plane or not, i guess not looking at the speed of the sr-71 being 2200 mph.

157,000 mph in an airplane just sounds absolutely insane. How would you survive the stop?

righthandtypist t1_is1ect9 wrote on October 12, 2022 at 4:28 PM

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If near FTL speeds were ever achieved, or even some of the speeds that current satellites are going, how would they effect the human body?

I assume due to the size of the earth and how small we are the speed isn't registered by us due to relative sizes, does this mean that any vessel we create to travel those speeds needs to be proportionally scaled to say moon sized?