“Top Gun: Maverick” may have been your classic “no-holds-barred, adrenaline-fueled thrill ride“, but was it 100% scientifically accurate? Apparently not.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says Tom Cruise should have DIED during one particular scene.
Tyson shared on Twitter, “Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed. He survived with no injuries. At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm. Just sayin’.”
He added, “When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 miles per hour, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy, the explosive power of 100 kilograms of TNT. A situation that human physiology is not designed to survive.
“So, no. Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead.”
Late to the party here, but In this year’s @TopGunMovie, @TomCruise’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed.
He survived with no injuries.
At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm. Just sayin’. pic.twitter.com/YP9IKVc8VS
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
At supersonic speeds, air cannot smoothly part for you. You must pierce it, which largely accounts for the difference in fuselage designs between subsonic and supersonic planes.
For this reason, the air on your body, if ejecting at these speeds, might as well be a brick wall. pic.twitter.com/psN8aoAT2e
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy — the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT. A situation that human physiology is not designed to survive.
So, no. Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
In this year’s @TopGunMovie, they dangerously fly under the radar, through a narrow, winding canyon to destroy a target, avoiding multiple banks of surface-to-air missiles.
But why not first take out the missile banks? Could then fly without daredevil maneuvers. Just sayin’. pic.twitter.com/2FYyUjJdp1
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 9, 2022
(Uproxx)