• Sundray@lemmus.org
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    4 days ago

    Inches makes it seem more impressive than it is–that’s like only around 30 miles or so.

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      4 days ago

      Uh… By my calculations, it’s ~34,000 miles. Enough to go all the way around the world about one and a half times.

      And, yeah, I’m going to say that’s fairly impressive. If you got the angle right, you could fuck yourself in the ass with it.

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        4 days ago

        Additionally, if you get the angle right the other way you can knock geosynchronous satellites out of orbit. You could literally fuck DirecTV satellites.

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        4 days ago

        I mean, you could probably do that, but then once it gets hard, you’re gonna be catapulted halfway around the planet.