User blog comment:Icchi/About the initiation/@comment-15108745-20130820150657/@comment-10390252-20130820151333

I take the launching sequence literally because the laws of physics seem noticiably different in the RWBY universe. The law of conservation of energy seems to be somewhat different and humans seem able to survive much greater g-loadings than we do. Consider this 'comic-book world' with all that implies.