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This presumably depends mostly on what your delta-V is. You can be wearing Epic Foam Platemail of the Whale +5 but if your orbital velocity is 7 km/s and you h
by patio11 11y ago
This presumably depends mostly on what your delta-V is. You can be wearing Epic Foam Platemail of the Whale +5 but if your orbital velocity is 7 km/s and you hit a 100g rock at the same velocity but going the other direction physics says you're about to have a very bad day.
- ben-schaaf 11y agoDelta-v is defined as "change in velocity", ie. how much a spacecraft can change its velocity. I think you're talking about relative velocity.
- tyre 11y agoI believe GP was referring to delta as in mathematics, which refers to difference and not necessarily change. So the delta between +7km/s and -7km/s is 14km/s. You are technically correct, though based on common usage patio11 got their point across.
- patio11 11y agoYep; appears I misremembered a long-ago physics class.