Neil deGrasse Tyson says Tom Cruise should've died in Top Gun 2

Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and Twitter fact-checker/fun-spoiler (depending on who you ask), has set his sights on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Top Gun: Maverick

The sequel, which sees Tom Cruise reprise the role of Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell for the first time in 36 years, features plenty of jaw-dropping airborne stunts and complex action sequences, with Cruise enrolling cast members in a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:three-month boot camp to get them used to being in the air. However, these s🅰cenes didn'🐲t pass the Tyson test.

"At supersonic speeds, air cannot smoothly part for you. You must pierce it, which largely accounts for the difference in fuselage designs between s🐽ubsoni🔯c and supersonic planes. For this reason, the air on your body, if ejecting at these speeds, might as well be a brick wall."

He added: "When Maverick ejected at Mach 10.5, he🅷 was going 7,000 mph, giving him 400 million joules of kinetic energy – the explosive power of 100 kg of TNT. A situation that human physiology is not designed to survive. So, no. Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead."

Cruise can next be seen in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, which arrives on the big screen on July 14, 2023. In the meantime, check out our guide to the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies that should༺ be on your radar, this year and bey♕ond.

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