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NASA 'Hyper-X' Series Scramjets

Posted by michael on from the ginger-ale-peanuts-and-oxygen-mask dept.

swight1701 writes "Sciencedaily.com is reporting that NASA has revealed its plans for developing Hypersonic aircraft within 2 decades. These plans include planes that could routinely go Mach 5+ and capable of taking off from an airport and visiting the IIS, or for you earthbound folk, from one airport to any other within 2 hours. And you thought your luggage gets lost NOW.:)" NASA's release includes some graphics showing what the test vehicles look like.

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  1. Visiting the IIS... by Muad'Dave · · Score: 4, Funny
    and visiting the IIS...

    If I want to visit the IIS, I'll just go into the computer room, thank you. Oh, you mean the ISS...

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    1. Re:Visiting the IIS... by den_erpel · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am currently still continuously visited by IIS, why go there:

      12.34.56.789 - - [28/Feb/2002:05:44:58 -0500] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 224

      >:)

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  2. Re:The obligatory post-9/11 questions... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    waaaaaaaaahhhh mommy i'm scaaaaaaaaaaared jezus this is pathetic

  3. Re:How do they see? by iiii · · Score: 3, Funny

    These craft will be piloted only by navigators, members of the Space Guild, who, due to their heavy use of spice melange, can perceive the present and future without windows, and can fold space.

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