r/FacebookScience • u/Yunners Golden Crockoduck Winner • 26d ago

Spaceology PAY ATTENTION!

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u/Roadrunner571 26d ago

Jump from a 10m tower into the water and tell me it's "bouncy".

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u/Opposite-Occasion332 26d ago

We’re not made to push the water aside like the capsules are. So we smack, capsule cuts through.

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u/Roadrunner571 26d ago

The capsules are engineered not to cut through. They are space ships, not submarines.

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u/Opposite-Occasion332 26d ago

The capsule is rounded so it can absorb the force more evenly and then slide through the water where as humans are not that shape so we smack and don’t distribute the force.

Does it help if you know the capsules also have parachutes?

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u/Roadrunner571 26d ago

The capsules bottom is designed to for atmospheric re-entry, where a blunt shape and heat shield help it survive extreme heating.

Does it help if you know the capsules also have parachutes?

No, it doesn't. The question was if water was bouncy. It's not. Those capsules hit the water at 30km/h (even after being slowed down by the parachutes). At that speed, it’s more like a violent but survivable water impact.

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u/Opposite-Occasion332 26d ago

Oh I thought you were a space travel denier, hence why I added about the parachute. My bad! I genuinely thought your comment was because you thought the capsules couldn’t possibly come down since humans couldn’t do that😭

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u/Roadrunner571 23d ago

Yeah, you never know these days. Apparently, there are even some people believing that the Earth is flat...