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tilthat:

TIL, the unconfirmed record for fastest moving manmade object is a manhole cover propelled by a nuclear detonation. A high-speed camera trained on the lid caught only one frame of it moving upward before it vanished—which means it was moving about 125,000 miles per hour

via reddit.com

I’m reblogging myself because I read the source. The lead scientist involved theorized that it was going fast enough that A) it would not have burnt up in our atmosphere, and B) it would not have been caught in Earth’s orbit. Essentially meaning, the first man made object launched into space was a manhole cover that’s still traveling the cosmic abyss.

That’s not true though because the V2 rocket was the first object that entered what is considered space. 

I did some research on the V2 just now. The V2 never left our atmosphere. So no, it didn’t make it to space. It made it into the upper levels of our atmosphere, almost into orbit. The manhole cover blew way past the V2s recorded height.

This is why the aliens won’t visit.