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Recent Examples of escape velocity from the Web
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The initial version will be able to boost more than 50,000 pounds to Earth-escape velocity.
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Using data from a number of very fast stars in the Andromeda Galaxy spotted by the William Herschel telescope, the researchers could calculate the escape velocity of the galaxy.
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How does a company like Spotify grow up over the last 10 years and achieve escape velocity?
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Larger narratives would only destroy that apartness from the chain of events which gives them escape velocity.
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Soar higher, to twenty-two thousand miles above earth, to that sweet spot where escape velocity meshes with gravity.
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First Known Use of escape velocity
1934
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