Submitted by DemonOfTheAstroWaste t3_11c3z36 in space
Im_Chad_AMA t1_ja1oaap wrote
Reply to comment by dipper1985 in Explosions in space movies? by DemonOfTheAstroWaste
The speed of light is 300,000 km/s, or about 671,000,000 miles per hour. Quite a few orders of magnitude larger than 90 mph.
The kinetic energy of an object depends on both its mass and its velocity. A fly against your car is light enough, and the velocity of your car is small enough, that a collision between a car and a fly does nothing to the car. Once you approach lightspeed though, even a speck of dust could wreak havoc
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