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Is it worse to go sideways into the atmosphere or straight down?
(Assuming you had the however many years of oxygen with you to make the journey, etc.)
I assume it would be better to just stay on the station and enjoy the sunsets and moonrises and I bet you get random eclipses too
Just asking because… if I have the oxygen maybe I could use it to lower my velocity of orbit or whatever speed that high is called until I fall straight down.
I don’t know how velocity works if I was going sideways at 17,000 mph and I sprayed the oxygen in front of me I would probably start to fall faster immediately that’s weird gravity and shit, I don’t know the correlation between gravity and speed
10 mph per second … per second? It accelerates so maybe close enough
as long as you could slow down to terminal velocity ( slow enough to prevent exploding when you hit atmosphere) you'd be fine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eustace