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A tilthat TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished-which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour via reddit.com kaleighbytheway I'm reblogging myself because I read the source. The lead scientist involved theorized that it was going fast enough that A) it would not have burnt up in our atmosphere, and B) it would not have been caught in Earth's or- bit. Essentially meaning, the first man made object launched into space was a manhole cover that's still traveling the cosmic abyss. theboringprincess YEET kinkstertime Earth escape velocity is just under 7,000 miles per hour. This was traveling almost 18 times that speed. That thing is definitely out in space. And not just in orbit about earth either, it's f----- *gone* gone! kinkstertime Wait I did more research!!! From the earth's surface the escape velocity from the entire f----- solar system is under 30,000 miles per hour. Bout one quater of the speed that thing was going. I can't believe the first, and fastest, interstellar message we sent was the equivalent of squeezing the lid off a pringles tube at your friend. ripleyandweeds SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY ... O teaboot The level of absurdity equal to that of a Douglas Adams novel theonetruegemini Aliens declare war on earth after a manhole cover punches a f------ hole in their planet

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Wrazid

Aug 27, 2020 at 02:59PM EDT

Let me get this straight: Earth's first space object was a flying saucer?

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Soup King

Aug 27, 2020 at 05:56PM EDT

I'm so happy to think that there is a chance that this manhole cover might result in a case of Panspermia occurring somewhere in the universe because of this.

Could you imagine being a sentient life form and discovering that (A) you are descended from life forms light years away from your home (B) that it was an object created by another sentient creature that led to the creation of life on your world and © you are the spawn of a literal shit hole.

This is definitely one of those Humanity, Fuck Yeah! moments.

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