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by FabHK 79 days ago
One fact that I found unintuitive (while we're at cars doing things they can't):

If you could drive your car straight up vertically, you'd have to cruise just for an hour or so at 100 km/h (<65 mph) until you reached space. It's not that far.

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However space is not orbit. Space is easy, orbit is hard. https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/