Meet Ferry the Spaceship.

When you need a quick one-off delivery, Ferry is your chauffeur. We hired him because there is no traffic or possibility of collisions in space. This makes him excellently suited for the job: fast, reliable, and no driver's license required.

When this boat floors it, the first 100 km/s out of a planetary orbit are reached in less than a second. My trusty qalculater tells me that

> 100km/s /1s to gees
 (100 kilometers/second) / (1 second) ≈ 10197.2 gees

Being used to tens or perhaps hundreds of gs at most, I thought my calculation had gone wrong, but no: with one earth g at ~9.8m/s², these 100km/s² aren't a mere ten of those, there is an extra kilo of them.

Ten thousand earth gravities. Fancy that pulling on your buttocks! Ferry's leap into interplanetary space is, however, no unparalleled feat. Desiring to put this number into context, my deep dive research (i.e., opening Wikipedia) landed me at this comparison table. Coming in at 10'400 g, a Mantis Shrimp's claw during predatory strike accelerates as fast as Ferry's six rocket engines.

The next entry of the table is also of Factorial relevance: the electronics in military artillery shells is rated up to 15'500 g. I am glad I haven't pushed a little harder! Poor Ferry, his electronics broken, völlig losgelöst

I hope this fun fact made your day just a little better :)