I was watching a SciFi tv show where large objects had an outer speed limit of 18000 kph and that got me wondering what things in everyday life are faster than even 500 kph.
I know bullets can be fast, but they are not exactly everyday life (at least in my life).
I included mass for obvious relativistic reasons.
Neutrinos. About 100 trillion go through you every second with about .000001 percent interacting with you. And they have a non zero mass.
When you were a kid: The velocity of the adrenaline rushing to your brain triggering a “fight or flight” mode (mostly flight) after you hear the sound of your mother saying your full name in her native dialect.
(Actually the fear remains well into adulthood)
Every mass is moving really fast from a certain point of view.
Rockets?
International space station goes around the earth at about 7km/s if I recall correctly. And it’s quite big.
That’s the kind of speed of any rocket going to meet with ISS or being put into earth orbit. Things reentrying from orbit hit the atmosphere at about that speed too.
Things going or coming to the moon need slightly more, I think ballpark is 10km/s, and above that you’re travelling to Mars, asteroids, Venus, Jupiter, etc etc.
I feel like that’s even less like “everyday life” than OPs example of bullets lol
I get your point but I’ll nitpick anyways:
Isn’t satellites as much part of everyday life as submarine internet cables, and our lives would be radically different without satellites but having only submarine cables?
Or do we need to see them to believe it?
Hmm how about CRT monitors/televisions? Not that common these days but they are basically little particle accelerators that shoot electrons at a pretty good fraction of the speed of light (like 30%). But I guess that’s not really an answer to you question unless you define electrons as objects. I guess my other answer would be airbags which deploy at about 300 kmph
Mantis shrimp punches travel 12 to 23 meters per second (approximately 27 to 51 miles per hour) in water the acceleration involved can reach up to 10,000 Gs.
The peak force generated by a mantis shrimp’s punch can be as high as 1500 Newtons, which is over 2500 times the animal’s own body weight.
The acceleration of their punch is such thay it creates a cavitation bubble which, when it collapses, can generate 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit – nearly as hot as the sun’s surface at 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.We named ours Smeagol.
The Mantis Shrimp is one of the few things that make me question pure raw evolution. How the fuck can you just evolve a sci fi plasma pistol?
Me when someone hits me up for a booty call.
The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking.
- Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
That manhole cover.
I wonder where that thing is nowadays. Probably landed in the ocean somewhere, or even burned up if it didn’t just flat out leave earth orbit.
I’m pretty sure the article iIread said it had more than enough speed to reach escape velocity, but would have ablated/vaporized before doing so.
Most likely never went far before it vaporized.
Not so long ago I would have said electrons in a CRT screen (old school TV). When the electrons leave the accelerating anode, they are traveling at a reasonable fraction of the speed of light
Yeah but electrons have no mass
The crack of a whip is a sonic boom caused by the tip going supersonic.
That’s cool
Super sonic means above 340 m/s, give or take some meters.
Some sex includes supersonic elements, then.
Traditionally, you use a rider’s crop in sex, in which case, the cracking sound is the flap clap when you slap.
Bull whips, the ones that go supersonic, are often considered less sexy because they rip flesh and make people stop feeling all good and sexy.
Not that I’ve ever used either in sex. This is just what was explained to me back when I did photo shoots for BDSM community members and events.
That’s awesome knowledge! Thanks for sharing and enlightening me! :D
🎵 I wanna make a supersonic man out of you 🎶
grabs pool queue
I don’t think that those people waiting in line to go swimming wanted to be grabbed.
Kill the Queen
Gotta go fast
When uncorking a champagne bottle, the gasses inside expand so fast that the white mist it can usually be seen is actually frozen CO2
This is my high school chemistry talking here, but don’t expanding gasses heat up? Ideal gas law and everything? Is there something weird happening like the CO2 instantaneously pressurizing or something right before expanding?
It’s the other way around, expanding gasses cool down and compression heats them up.
I remember there being something misleading about the “temperature” in pV=nRT, but yeah, I think I was getting confused because I was thinking about it purely formulaicly.
But if the pressure drops and the volume of the gas increases, in order for it to cool, that would mean the drop in pressure is much less significant than the rise in volume?
But yeah, I should’ve remembered that expanding gasses cool, because I know how aerosol cans work. It’s time to touch up on this stuff lol.
Glass cracks propagate at an absurdly fast rate. Something like 4x the speed of sound (1400m/s). Not a physical thing moving, but very common.
I think it would propagate at the speed of sound in glass.
It seems that depending on the type of glass and the direction of the waves (longitudinal, shear, or Extensional) the speed of sound in glass can be between 2300-6000 m/s
Longitudinal is the type we normally think of though, and that is between 3900-5600 m/s. Which is still much more variation than I was expecting.
The speed of sound in air is around 340 m/s depending on temperature.
So if the op is correct about the speed, then it seems the cracks propagate slower than the speed of sound in glass.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/sound-speed-solids-d_713.html
OP specifically asked for something with mass. This is not a thing with mass. This is the same as saying a shadow can move faster than the speed of light.
breaks a pane of glass over your head
let me see you do that with a shadow
Haha
Interesting… how do you know about this?
Slow Mo Guys on YouTube have filmed glass cracking and calculated its speed many times. Very lovely channel that I recommend!
The air leaving your lungs during a sneeze is moving roughly 100mph.
Wow, that’s nuts
That’s probably the fastest thing a human body by itself can produce…
Modern MLB pitchers can regularly throw a baseball 100+ mph. Currently, the flick of the wrist during a curveball throw is the fastest human motion recorded.
Some viruses particles explode out of cells with crazy force. I don’t know it off the top of my head but I remember reading about that somewhere.
Some MLB pitchers are able to throw baseballs faster than 100MPH. Nerve signals can travel through the body at 200MPH.
thing a human body by itself can produce…
…but nobody has measured my farts yet.
Nobody has measured your farts and lived.
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Satellites are visible and move at some km per second. Pretty fast
Inside the atmosphere anything faster than some hundreds km/h get so much drag that they either are extremely small (bullets) or extremely powerful (planes, maglev trains)
Are we observing them moving, or are they stationary and we are the ones moving? dramatic dun-dun-duuuunnnn
(kinda joke kinda serious)
You’re moving at about 700 m/s while sitting in your couch, according to Earth’s rotation. So if the plane goes west at max speed, it would be 1400 m/s faster than going west.
The answer is yes, depending on your frame of reference.
Everything in the Universe is moving.
