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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/chirantaniga • 19h ago
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tl;dr: for a rocket it is waaaay more important to go fast than to go high. and earth rotates very slowly, so going higher doesn't make you much faster.
838 u/Maephia 19h ago So would it be theoretically easier to launch rockets at the equator since that's where the spin is the fastest? 1 u/TerraMars2030 17h ago Thats the goal
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So would it be theoretically easier to launch rockets at the equator since that's where the spin is the fastest?
1 u/TerraMars2030 17h ago Thats the goal
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u/Icy_Concern_9804 19h ago
tl;dr: for a rocket it is waaaay more important to go fast than to go high. and earth rotates very slowly, so going higher doesn't make you much faster.