[2.2 Straight six]

yea, sounds more interesting than most to me, but my question is about the virus' resilliance to the impact of it meeting the planet, but first lets look into a few things.

first, mass is unimportant, its weight we're after. sound confusing ? let me explain.

mass and weight are different, mass is an amount, mass measures the amount of something (very complicated, really boring) mass never changes.

weight however is different, if we went to the moon our weight changes, not our mass. weight is the force we exert on the earth (in this example) our weight is literally the amount of force (dont confuse with amount for mass) that we sort of produce, its the force with which we push down on the earth with. this is met by reaction, but thats complicated too. so if the mood is one eigth the mass of the earth (size is irrelevant, if the materials making the moon are different in density then thats whats important)

let me explain what i mean; everything has a gravitational force. we need to know about the density an mass for the gravitational force (like how dense it is, how much of it is there)

so if i take 100 cubic centimetres of wood and 100 cubic centimetres of iron, they are the same amount (100 centimetres cubed) but they have different wieght due to density, so the larger weight the larger the gravitational pull it exerts.

so it the iron block is 10N (N=Newton, 9.98 newtons to the kilo, as they are different) and the wood block is 1N. then the iron block has 10x the gravitational force.

any ideas where im going with this ?

so, lets say the virus is in space, suddenly it reaches a planet's gravitational pull threshold (my name for it) if the planet has no atmosphere then there will be no eqivalent of air resistance, and as you said it will continually accelerate) now, as it accelerates the pushing force on it is infinitely more that that of the resisting force acting on it.

when it hits the planet's surface it will have such a massive force behind it that it may be destroyed under its own weight, this is however dependant on the size of the planet, bigger planet, bigger gravitational force, bigger weight of virus (not mass).

umm.........sorry to go an rip up your theory like that.

i hope everything i've put here is right, if not go ahead to correct me, dont take my word for whats here, there's every chance it could be wrong.

but i like the theory, the question remains though where did "X" (X being what everything came from) come from, everything had to start somewhere.