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The further you get from the planet, the lower escape velocity becomes. At some point you will be going faster than escape velocity.
by isostatic 9y ago
The further you get from the planet, the lower escape velocity becomes. At some point you will be going faster than escape velocity.
- nilkn 9y agoIndeed -- this is illustrated in my example below where one moves an object at 1mph (fixed speed) for about 283 million years until it's 4 * 10^12 km away from the Earth, where the escape velocity is right around 1mph.