• Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    We can absolutely go way faster. The fastest thing we’ve ever built is currently the parker solar probe. Relative to the sun, it’s traveling so fast it could do a flyby of earths entire width in (I’m just guessing, don’t quote me) probably a couple seconds.

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      5 months ago

      I just did the math. Parker’s top speed is around 430,000mph. So with the earth being a bit over 7900 miles across it would take a minute for Parker to traverse the width of the earth.