• doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    No, terminal velocity is somewhere around 110mph I think. Unless you’re talking about sending it into space.

    Edit: yes I have read more about this since making the comment. Big thanks to a mediocre education decades ago for what I thought I knew.

    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      To be fair, I did say “high enough.” Get it beyond the atmosphere and it’ll easily hit 420mph. Just know there won’t really be anything left for your insurance company to appraise.

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I caught that and I tried to acknowledge it. But I think the implied part was that vehicles won’t go that fast under their own power.

        • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          I think the implied part was that vehicles won’t go that fast under their own power.

          Sure, that’s why what I said was funny. 😉

    • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Pretty sure that’s terminal velocity of a falling human. It will likely be much higher for a car.

    • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 month ago

      Terminal velocity depends on the drag profile and weight of an object. So it actually depends what shape the vehicle is and it’s mass.