• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    But also at that speed it’d only be in the atmosphere for a couple seconds; even at that high temp it may not have been able to transfer all that energy into the manhole cover. The energy may have just gone into ablating away the surface.

    But it probably ablated away the whole mass of the manhole cover.