Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted: Top Gun: Maverick on sunday.
Tyson, who frequently disproves scientific inaccuracies in movies and other pop culture, analyzed the following scene. Top Gun: Maverick Featuring Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a famous figure portrayed by Tom Cruise reprising his role from the 1986s top gunescaped from his plane and survived.
“I’m late to the party here, but this year’s @TopGunMovie, @tom cruisecharacter Maverick flies out of a hypersonic aircraft at Mach 10.5 before crashing. He survived without injury,” Tyson posted on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
“At that air velocity, his body would fly off like a chain mail glove hitting a worm. I’m just saying’.”
I’m late to the party here, but this year’s @TopGunMovie, @tom cruisecharacter Maverick flies out of a hypersonic aircraft at Mach 10.5 before crashing.
He survived without injury.
At that air velocity, his body would fly off like a glove in chain mail hitting a worm. pic.twitter.com/YP9IKVc8VS
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
“At supersonic speeds, the air can’t pull you away smoothly. If you do, the air in your body may be a brick wall.
At supersonic speed, the air cannot leave smoothly. The main reason for the difference in subsonic and supersonic fuselage designs is the need to pierce it.
Because of this, air on your body can look like a wall of bricks when ejected at these velocities. pic.twitter.com/psN8aoAT2e
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
Tyson Conclusion“When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 miles per hour, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy. This is the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT. So that human physiology survives A situation that wasn’t designed.No.Maverick doesn’t avoid this.He’s dead.So dead.”
Shortly after a series of tweets denying the outcome of Cruise’s plane escape, Tyson chased down the film’s climactic dogfight Air Combat Maneuver (ACM) scene, firing multiple banks of surface-to-air missiles. But why not take out the missile bank first? Then you can fly without any reckless maneuvers. I’m just saying ‘. “
This year’s @TopGunMoviethey venture under the radar, traversing narrow, winding canyons to destroy targets and avoid multiple banks of surface-to-air missiles.
But why not take out the missile bank first? Then you can fly without any reckless maneuvers. I’m just saying ‘. pic.twitter.com/2FYyUjJdp1
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
“It depends on the altitude. When I left the ISS on the spacewalk, I was at Mach 25, and that was perfectly fine,” said former NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Navy Capt. Scott Kelly. corrected Tyson by claiming that a plane could survive an ejection at such heights. For complete clarity. At altitudes where Mach 10 hypersonic aircraft fly, ejections can be very survivable, and re-entry into the atmosphere with just a pressure suit is not very likely,” Kelly admitted.
Depends on his altitude. When I left the ISS on my spacewalk, I was up to Mach 25, and that was perfectly fine. https://t.co/w2LP91SX06
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) October 10, 2022
Tyson, December 2020 share It’s an ironic observation about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the rest of Santa’s reindeer. However, all male reindeer lose their antlers in late fall, well before Christmas. So all of Santa’s reindeer with sporting horns are all female, implying that Rudolph is the wrong gender. ”
similarly Top Gun: MaverickTyson criticized 2017 Chappaquiddicka film detailing the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident in which 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopekne was killed after a car crash at the negligence of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy.
“The Chappaquiddick occurred just two days before the first moon landing. , the actual phase was a four-day-old waxing crescent set long before Midnight Tragedy.
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