You see video of rockets with munitions in them like surface -to-air and plane mounted rockets and they seem to move so quick. Why do these massive rockets seem to move slow? Is it payload? Do they speed up as they reach the stratosphere?
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Rockets are massive. Absolutely massive. They also weigh an ungodly amount. Now add the perspective of being really far away. Everything looks slow. Massive objects moving fast give you this strange illusion that they are moving slower than they are. Rockets or missiles fired from aircraft look slower because that aircraft is already moving close to the speed of sound. I’m reality these things are moving 1000+ mph. To reach orbit Apollo is moving almost 20,000mph. It’s just the sheer size that gives off the slow perspective.
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