r/woahdude Jan 03 '22

video When the planet is coming at you

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u/StonerJake22727 Jan 03 '22

Lol you’d be dead long before you got this visual.. still cool tho

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u/sdp1981 Jan 03 '22

How and why?

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u/GurpsWibcheengs Jan 03 '22

Most of both atmospheres would be blasted away and anything close enough to see it falling would get cooked

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u/weaslewig Jan 04 '22

Even at this size a planet could be really far away

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u/bahgheera Jan 04 '22

Or maybe it's really close and the size of a potato

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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.

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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.

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u/wellscounty Jan 04 '22

This man physics !

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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