Sometimes people tweet wrong things and I feel compelled to make a video: Neil Degrasse Tyson made a number of comments about Top Gun 2: Maverick including this one which spoke to me:
When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy — the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT. A situation that human physiology is not designed to survive.
So, no. Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
Now, he does a fine job communicating cool things about science, but he’s an astronomer and hasn’t spend nearly as much time studying aerospace as myself, nor did he recently make a video about the most extreme Ejection seat ever made for the X-15.
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