10 Bizarre Movie Moments You Just Accepted

10. Maverick Somehow Survived Ejecting At Mach 10.5 - Top Gun: Maverick

Early on in the eventual smash hit that was Top Gun: Maverick, the titular fighter pilot dramatically hits Mach 10 whilst flying a hypersonic plane.

Not happy with moving at that ridiculous speed, though, Pete Mitchell opts to push the jet even more before eventually ejecting from the aircraft at Mach 10.5 like a mad man.

And while the subsequent moment the dusty legend wandered into a diner after surviving the destruction of the Darkstar was comical enough, this was something famous astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson found to be quite unrealistic.

According to Tyson's tweets on the matter (via IndieWire), when Maverick ejected from the vehicle at Mach 10.5, he'd have been travelling at 7,000 mph. And that would give him 400 million joules of kinetic energy; the same explosive power of 100 kg of TNT.

The human body isn't designed to survive that kind of force. So, as Tyson put it, "Maverick does not walk away from this. He be dead. Very dead."

Had this bizarre survival not taken place, however, the 2022 box office sensation would've crash landed within the opening few minutes. Also, the majority of film fans were too gripped by Maverick's defiant need for speed in this opening stretch to question whether he'd actually make it out of that rapid moment alive in real-life.