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The fastest object was manhole cover that was blasted into space by nuclear test
- alduin32 2y agoIt's an interesting event, but this article is a bit misleading, and the title outright wrong : the object did not reach space in any meaningful way, and Robert Brownlee never said that it did. In fact, since meteors with a similar weight coming in at a third of the lower bound of the manhole's velocity can not reach the surface, we can assume that the manhole burned up in the atmosphere pretty quickly. From https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html : > As usual, the facts never can catch up with the legend, so I am occasionally credited with launching a "man-hole cover" into space, and I am also vilified for being so stupid as not to understand masses and aerodynamics, etc, etc, and border on being a criminal for making such a claim.
- m463 2y agoNever let the facts get in the way of a good story... But in this case the brownlee facts about the story make a good story.
- hindsightbias 2y agoThat would be a big nope: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/01/07/a-manhole-cover-beyond-the-solar-system/ https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2025/01/07/a-manhole-cover-b...