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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Something that’s really far away but moving quickly is easy to mistake for something that’s closer and moving slowly.
It’s similar to how a plane in the sky doesn’t look like it’s moving very fast because there’s nothing nearby that you can compare it with to get a sense for how far away it is.
Rockets are not a thing that most of us have seen in person, so we don’t have a good sense for how big they are. You’re probably thinking they’re smaller than they really are, which makes it look like they’re moving more slowly than they really are.
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