Now, as I am master funspoiler, the spaceship that goes the speed of sound can’t leave the planet big enough to sustain life. If the gravity is strong enough to hold the stable atmosphere, you need much more speed to enter the stable orbit, let alone leave the planet’s gravity field.
The speed of sound in air is, as I recall, over 20x too low for the former and about 35x too low for the latter.
Of course you can (ab)use a loophole and say that it is the speed of sound in a diamond…
March 18th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
She has the personality of the escape pod from 2001.
July 3rd, 2011 at 11:42 pm
I can’t help but feel sorry for the poor guy with the tumor. 🙁
May 9th, 2014 at 3:56 pm
Now, as I am master funspoiler, the spaceship that goes the speed of sound can’t leave the planet big enough to sustain life. If the gravity is strong enough to hold the stable atmosphere, you need much more speed to enter the stable orbit, let alone leave the planet’s gravity field.
The speed of sound in air is, as I recall, over 20x too low for the former and about 35x too low for the latter.
Of course you can (ab)use a loophole and say that it is the speed of sound in a diamond…