Tom Cruise has a critic! World-famous scientist Neil deGrasse debunks the star's flight stunt

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Neil deGrasse Tyson flexed his scientific savvy on Sunday as he took to Twitter to demystify Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick.Introducing the topic, he began, 'Late to the party here, but In this year’s @TopGunMovie, @TomCruise ’s character Maverick ejects from a hypersonic plane at Mach 10.5, before it crashed.' 'At that air speed, his body would splatter like a chainmail glove swatting a worm.

Just sayin’,' the astrophysicist, 64, fired off. Brainy! Neil deGrasse Tyson flexed his scientific savvy on Sunday as he took to Twitter to demystify Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick; seen in 2020 at UCLATyson noted the incredibility of the film's opening sequence as he said in his initial tweet that Tom's character 'survived with no injuries.' He continued his slew of tweets breaking down the 60-year-old actor's most successful film to date, adding, 'At supersonic speeds, air cannot smoothly part for you.  'You must pierce it, which largely accounts for the difference in fuselage designs between subsonic and supersonic planes.

For this reason, the air on your body, if ejecting at these speeds, might as well be a brick wall.'Neil, the longtime host of the show Star Talk, even added a graphic of an aircraft to demonstrate his points.