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The men in Apollo 10 reached a record-breaking speed of around 25,000 miles per hour when the shuttle re-entered the Earth's atmosphere in 1969.
We're either going to kill ourselves by crashing into the nearest wall at super speed or, worse, if we're indestructible, we've essentially turned our bodies into missiles that destroy everything in our path.
So, our hero swoops in at super speed, grabs her, and carries her to safety.
That sounds very romantic, but, in reality, that girl will probably suffer more damage from the hero than the bullet if he moved her at super speed.
When the girl at rest, velocity equals zero miles per hour, begins accelerating to reach the speed within seconds, velocity increases rapidly to 25,000 miles per hour, her brain would crash into the side of her skull.
Remember, it's not the speed that causes the damage because the astronauts survived Apollo 10, it's the acceleration or sudden stop that causes our internal organs to crash into the front of our bodies the way we move forward in a bus when the driver slams on the brakes.
What the hero did to the girl is mathematically the same as running her over with a space shuttle at maximum speed.
So, she's now falling from 290 feet, instead of 300 feet, reaching the speed of 173 feet per second just before impact, not counting air resistance.
If you could fly, what you must do is fly up to her, start flying down at the speed she is falling, hold on to her, then gradually slow down until you come to a complete stop.
As of 2012, the world record for fastest short-distance sprint speed is roughly 27 miles per hour.
Running speed depends on how much force is exerted by the runner's legs, and according to Newton's Second Law of Motion, force is the product of mass times acceleration.
His fastest recorded speed is less than 5 miles per hour.
Nah, I don't think so! Now, assuming you were granted the ability to float and the speed to move around efficiently, let's discuss the height of your flight.
Nowadays, we test the speed of computers by having them calculate pi, and quantum computers have been able to calculate it up to two quadrillion digits.
Not wanting to fall too far behind, President Eisenhower ordered the Navy to speed up its own project and launch a satellite as soon as possible.
The LHC whizzes subatomic particles around a 27-kilometer ring, getting them closer and closer to the speed of light before smashing them into each other inside gigantic particle detectors.
It's called the Reynolds number, and it depends on simple properties like the size of the swimmer, its speed, the density of the fluid, and the stickiness, or the viscosity, of the fluid.
Because of the speed and brevity of social media, we are forced to jump to conclusions and write sharp opinions in 140 characters about complex world affairs.
Speed away from Earth was one thing, and speed toward the Moon was quite another.
When Captain Kirk ask Lieutenant Sulu if the Starship Enterprise has reached a speed of warp 7, Sulu should reply, "Relative to what, Captain?"
Galileo seems to have been the first person to realize that there is no such thing as an absolute speed.
Earth's speed is 19 miles/second relative to the Sun.
The Enterprise's speed is warp 7 relative to the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Your speed is zero relative to your easy chair.
The concepts of speed and of rest have only relative meaning.
If, someday, you are buckled into your spaceship, and you see from the side window, say, a space station whizz by at constant speed, there is no way to know which of you is really moving.
Neither of you is really moving because there is no deep reality about constant speed.
Constant speed in a straight line has only relative meaning, a kind of relative reality.
For example, constant speed is relative, but change in speed is absolute.
When your spaceship fires its engines, your change in speed is beyond doubt.
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