Space RadarLab

Throw It Faster

Throw a ball faster and it lands farther away; at about 7.9 km/s the ground curves away as fast as the ball falls, and it never lands.

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How this was made and sources

One HTML file: no libraries, no network requests. Every number below was read on the date shown, from the page named next to it.

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