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Originally posted by Jaellma
For those who claim it's debris falling and bouncing off the craft, I ask this question:
At the rate of speed the craft is traveling in space, can solid debris fall and bounce off any craft? Wouldn't any debris, even as small as a penny, penetrate the craft and cause destruction to the craft?
Just asking because it seems most folks are overlooking this simple fact as they try to debunk what they are looking at.
Originally posted by Battlefresh
Originally posted by Jaellma
For those who claim it's debris falling and bouncing off the craft, I ask this question:
At the rate of speed the craft is traveling in space, can solid debris fall and bounce off any craft? Wouldn't any debris, even as small as a penny, penetrate the craft and cause destruction to the craft?
Just asking because it seems most folks are overlooking this simple fact as they try to debunk what they are looking at.
The debris could be traveling in the same direction as the craft at a similar, yet slightly slower speed. It most likely was a piece of hardware from a spacecraft in that orbit. Or perhaps even more likely from the docking craft itself.
Remember those spacecrafts are orbiting earth at roughly 20,000 mph. If that piece of debris is traveling 19,995 mph in the same direction it would appear that it is moving toward the craft at 5 mph, but in reality it is the craft that struck the debris.