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The point of my post is that you are comparing two different quantities with different physical meanings (acceleration and velocity), which are measured in different units (km/s^2 and km/s in your units). Therefore, acceleration cannot be greater or less than velocity. These are fundamentally incomparable concepts. You cannot say that acceleration is greater or less than velocity. Regarding the elephants, I read about it – the problem is that schools are not teaching the basics of physics very well these days. I mean not the formulas, but the fundamental things related to understanding the essence of concepts such as velocity, acceleration, mass, inertial frames of reference, etc. If my memory serves me correctly, the essence of the calculation for an elephant in geostationary orbit (when the elephant hovers over one point on the Earth's surface) is as follows: 1. Calculate the potential energy of the elephant in the Earth's gravitational field relative to sea level. 2. This energy is equal to the kinetic energy of the elephant at the moment of takeoff from the surface (if we do not take into account friction with the air when exiting into orbit – in general, there will be a small error of about 10-15%). 3. From the value of the kinetic energy of the elephant, we obtain the vertical starting velocity of the launched elephant. 4. Next, we can consider various ways of launching the elephant – by spinning it while holding it by the trunk, or by running along an inclined chute of a given length, and calculate the acceleration during the acceleration of the elephant to the required speed. 5. From the acceleration and mass, we calculate the force that will act on the trunk during acceleration. If the orbit is not geostationary, then we need to add the kinetic energy of the elephant's movement relative to the Earth's surface in orbit. Something like that.