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Probe Blazes New Record For The Fastest Thing Ever Made by Humans (www.sciencealert.com)
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Falling through the Solar System at an astonishing 635,266 kilometers (394,736 miles) per hour, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has just smashed the record for fastest object ever to be created by human hands.

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t want to talk over the original comment, but I believe they were speaking specifically of delta-v, which is ‘change in velocity’. So you have to burn more fuel to visit the sun than you need to go the other way and leave the solar system.

[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are correct, that is what they meant

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

People are really polite here