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Originally Posted by borked
wtf??? something can bounce off a hand yet still cause a foot-wide crater??? Why didn't it just go through his hand?
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There are quite a few holes in this article. The speed of the object for one thing. It may have been traveling at that speed at one time but once it hit our atmosphere it would begin to heat up, break apart and most significantly... SLOW DOWN. There is only a small window of time in which the atmosphere has time to work it's magic on incoming objects. Whatever makes it through enjoys an introduction to the physics of earth.
The size of that object is the same as it was once the atmosphere was done with it. At that point that tiny object began to slow down. Remember it is the size of a pea now. It most likely slowed down to terminal velocity or a close approximation. REMEMBER... this is now the size of a pea. Now in order for it to break the sound barrier, which the article claims, it would have to be moving at rate much faster than its expected terminal velocity.
If it HAD been traveling at those speeds... 1. The object would have needed to be much larger and 2. The boy would be dead.
The story is completely ludicrous.
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