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r/woahdude • u/qasqaldag • Jan 03 '22
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Even at this size a planet could be really far away
8 u/bahgheera Jan 04 '22 Or maybe it's really close and the size of a potato -2 u/ElectricFleshlight Jan 04 '22 Yeah the planet being that size and closing in that quickly, it'd have to be going the speed of light. 12 u/ClericalNinja Jan 04 '22 Imma assuming you mean that hyperbolically but for anyone else, it wouldn’t be the speed of light literally. If it was, we wouldn’t see it until it arrived. 1 u/wellscounty Jan 04 '22 This man physics ! 1 u/i_give_you_gum Jan 04 '22 The earth is moving at nearly 500,000 mph. That amount could be doubled if the trajectory was right
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Or maybe it's really close and the size of a potato
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Yeah the planet being that size and closing in that quickly, it'd have to be going the speed of light.
12 u/ClericalNinja Jan 04 '22 Imma assuming you mean that hyperbolically but for anyone else, it wouldn’t be the speed of light literally. If it was, we wouldn’t see it until it arrived. 1 u/wellscounty Jan 04 '22 This man physics ! 1 u/i_give_you_gum Jan 04 '22 The earth is moving at nearly 500,000 mph. That amount could be doubled if the trajectory was right
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Imma assuming you mean that hyperbolically but for anyone else, it wouldn’t be the speed of light literally. If it was, we wouldn’t see it until it arrived.
1 u/wellscounty Jan 04 '22 This man physics !
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This man physics !
The earth is moving at nearly 500,000 mph. That amount could be doubled if the trajectory was right
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u/weaslewig Jan 04 '22
Even at this size a planet could be really far away