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Watching the camera feed of the launch around the 5 minute mark all I could think was: if the rocket turned around now, it could probably land in New York in an

by caval 12y ago

Watching the camera feed of the launch around the 5 minute mark all I could think was: if the rocket turned around now, it could probably land in New York in another 5 minutes

jerf 12y ago
On a ballistic trajectory, you can reach anywhere on Earth in 40 minutes or less. I've seen cute little diagrams of the relevant times before, but I wasn't able to quickly Google one up.
- mikeash 12y ago
  Everyone who grew up during the Cold War knows this instinctively!