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no worse than dropping an airplane on a city

• hacker_9 9y ago
  An airplane goes roughly 500km/h. Elons rocket was going 20000km/h - so I think it's about 40x worse actually. Not to mention a rocket goes straight down so none of that speed is lost.
  • the8472 9y ago
    > Elons rocket was going 20000km/h In space. I don't think it would survive that in the lower atmosphere. And a lot of danger comes from the fuel, not the kinetic energy.
  • eutectic 9y ago
    And 1600x worse by kinetic energy.