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srvmshr | 1 year ago

If galactic location details weren't provided, I would have jokingly concluded that we finally spotted the nuclear manhole cover :)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-fastest-man-made-o...

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JumpCrisscross|1 year ago

> the nuclear manhole cover

Manholes can weigh over 250 lbs (113 kg) [1]. Accelerating that mass to 25k mph takes about 7 GJ.

Brown dwarfs are around 10 ^ 27 kg. That takes sabout 10 ^ 11 GJ to get to 1mm mph.

To put that into perspective, the scale of the energy difference between these phenomena is so vast that were each GJ a second the interval it would define would span 32bn years, or roughly twice the age of the universe.

[1] https://theapecgroup.com/how-much-does-a-manhole-cover-weigh...