Submitted by DemonOfTheAstroWaste t3_11c3z36 in space
PyrrhoTheSkeptic t1_ja1ourv wrote
Reply to comment by dipper1985 in Explosions in space movies? by DemonOfTheAstroWaste
90 mph is almost nothing.
To help you understand, think about tossing a bullet back and forth with a friend. You can do that without your hand getting hurt at all, because the bullet is not going very fast. However, that same bullet being shot from a gun is going very fast coming out of barrel, and it hitting your hand at that speed makes a very significant difference for how it would affect your hand if the bullet hit your hand.
And the speed of a bullet out of a gun is practically nothing compared with going near the speed of light; the forces involved are vastly greater with vastly greater speed.
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