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escape velocity

noun as in warp speed

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He’s also touted even wilder ideas, saying on X that 100 terawatts a year “is possible from a lunar base producing solar-powered AI satellites locally and accelerating them to escape velocity with a mass driver.”

First, they modeled what sort of impact could eject a blob of that size at the Moon’s escape velocity.

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I pray that for them and the millions of kids like them, regardless of race or ethnicity, that everything goes right and they reach escape velocity.

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Because there’s no way I could ever achieve escape velocity: the speed an object must reach in order to break away from another object’s gravitational pull.

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Meanwhile, electric vehicle sales in America are rising, and the time when they could hit “escape velocity” and really make a difference is on the horizon, Larsen said.

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