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My impression is that a way to look at it is that at 50 km/s, everything is liquid, if not plasma.


Things zip around at 50 km/s all the time and stay solid, that's not a problem.

We can even imagine technologies that survive a 50 km/s impact. Like self-replicating nanobots based on tardigrades, stashed in the interior of an asteroid - plenty of people already think life has been spread in asteroid-planet collisions. But we definitely don't have those now.




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