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Because that manhole cover still makes people laugh when they think about it. Not sure if it was ever found and tracked.
by Mountain_Skies 4y ago
Because that manhole cover still makes people laugh when they think about it. Not sure if it was ever found and tracked.
- WJW 4y agoThe manhole cover from the nuclear test (if that's what you're referring to) most likely evaporated from air friction, sadly. From the time between video frames we can infer that it did achieve orbital velocity, but it would have been going too fast in the denser parts of the atmosphere to survive. Rockets don't go that fast until they're already quite high up, so they suffer much less.
- metal_am 4y agoLikely vaporized, unfortunately... https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/488151/could-the-end-cap-of-the-pascal-b-1-survive-its-trip-through-the-atmosphere https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/488151/could-the...