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Cosmic speeds:

I'm not a physicist, but I'll venture to suggest that for an elephant to actually leave the ground (overcome Earth's gravity), its initial speed at the moment of launch must be significantly greater than the first cosmic velocity, because an elephant doesn't have rocket engines to maintain a constant speed during flight. It will very quickly lose its initial acceleration, just like a bullet fired into the sky will slow down to 0 after a few seconds and fly back to Earth (gravity is a force that doesn't want to let anyone go easily). Therefore, we can conclude that the elephant must be given an initial speed that even specially equipped rockets would hardly be able to withstand; that is, the elephant would simply be torn apart, not just its trunk, considering that the acceleration was achieved by spinning it by the trunk (not the best choice). Although, perhaps in the past, elephants were much different than they are now – more resilient and aerodynamic, and the force of gravity, without Zionist interference, was an order of magnitude less. Ariputra should know. :rolleyes: