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Ron Lee wrote:
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How do you get rid of all the velocity than builds up as you decend
through near vacuum and your energy of postition becomes energy of
motion?

Yes potential energy becomes kinetic energy and that is taken care of
by friction during reentry.

And thus we have come full circle and forgotten the original question,
which was why does the shuttle have to land so fast.


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We are certainly getting better at dragging discussions off topic. In the
old days it used to take as much as a hundred posts to come full circle, but
today we can accomplish it in as little as dozen or so.

People that live in reality have things like "speed dating", here we are
limited to things like "speed drifting".