Maverick would survive the ejection – but then the fall gets deadly hot.
Scott Kelly, an astronaut veteran, debunked Monday’s theory that Neil deGrasse Tyson (astrophysicist) had floated over the weekend regarding a scene in “Top Gun: Maverick”: That Pete “Maverick”Mitchell would “splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm”He was instantly at Mach 10.5.
Kelly tweeted Monday that a jet must be so high in altitude that it can fly Mach 10.5 at the first place. The thinness of the atmosphere would make ejection easy.
Maverick, the former commander of the International Space Station, would then start the fall to Earth, according to the problem. Have you ever seen what happens when large chunks of rock enter the atmosphere? It’s spectacular!
However, this is not favorable for Pete’s survival. “Maverick” Mitchell.
Still, descending in a blaze of meteoric glory is far from deGrasse Tyson’s extremely nerdy and slightly nauseating “chain mail glove swatting a worm” reference.
But unless some occult hand moved to pluck Maverick from the sky, deGrasse Tyson’s outcome for Maverick – “He be dead” – was technically correct.
