Article 44197 What Would It Take to Shoot a Cannonball Into Orbit?

What Would It Take to Shoot a Cannonball Into Orbit?

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Rhett Allain
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Story ImageWe did the math on a famous thought experiment by Isaac Newton involving a very tall mountain, a wicked fast cannonball, and good old gravity.
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