Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

We'll skip out of the atmosphere and never get back

Polish translation:

odbijemy się od atmosfery i nie uda nam się powrócić

Added to glossary by Jacek Krankowski (X)
Jun 21, 2001 16:33
22 yrs ago
English term

We'll skip out of the atmosphere and never get back

English to Polish Tech/Engineering
We'll skip out of the atmosphere and never get back.

Proposed translations

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odbijemy się od atmosfery i nie uda nam się powrócić

R U in APOLLO 13 or something?

The story behind the sentence is as follows:

When a spaceship returns to the Earth, it must reenter the atmosphere. And it must do so at a particular angle.

If the angle is too steep, the ship will go down too fast and burn down.

However, if the angle is too shallow, then the ship will rebounce (skip out)from the atmosphere and off it goes into the deep space.

CLASSIC EXAMPLE: Watch APOLLO 13 movie with Tom Hanks...

Hope it helps, Ivona.
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wyslizgniemy sie z atmosfery i nigdy nie wrocimy

skip out=to sneak away from sth/sb

Ideas: wyslizgniemy sie/wyniesie nas/wybije nas z atmosfery i nigdy nie wrocimy/powrocimy (nie damy rade wrocic)
Reference:

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