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It’s not the speed that’s dangerous, it’s the acceleration. A standard commercial airplane flies at hundreds of miles per hour and the people on board are unaffected, watching movies and drinking ginger ale.
The astronauts on the ISS are in a similar situation, moving fast, but staying at basically the same velocity (ignoring the fact that technically they’re accelerating in an orbit around the earth). All of us are also traveling at unfathomable speeds rotating on the earth’s axis, around the sun, around the galactic center, etc.
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