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Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow
pinkUZI writes "NASA says its new Hyper-X, a jet capable of flying some 5,000mph - seven times the speed of sound - will be ready to take a test cruise across the Pacific this Saturday. This is actually NASA's second attempt; the first, in 2001, failed when stabilizing fins flew off the plane's booster rocket and controllers ordered the craft destroyed. CNN has the story." NASA's mission web page has more information, photos, etc.
Da-dum-ching!
Let us strap a human to it and sing "The Rocket Man"!
Depends what you're reentering I suppose...
from the dupes-of-dupes dept.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Slight off-topic, but why do I have to go to Jet Propulsion Laboratory to find out about the Mars rovers, and then I have to go to National Aeronautics and Space Administration to find out about fancy new jet engines?!
Is it a cunning plan to out-fox those secret stealing ruskies?
You don't have to bring your own heater?
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Remaining on the ground combines all the disadvantages living on the surface of a planet with all the disadvantages of orbiting a star and all the disadvantages of being inside the orbit of an asteroid belt - continuously.
Let's assume for a moment here that I'm not Buckaroo Banzai and I'm a little bit vague on what the upper limit has been for manned flight (or travel in any medium, salt-plain automobiles or whatever). "Mach seven" really doesn't sound all that impressive. THIS IS 2004! We should be on mach ten-hundred by now.
For Christ's-sake, in that episode of ST:TNG where Riker had salt-and-peper hair and he didn't play trombone, I clearly heard him say: "WARP THIRTEEN! ENGAGE!" What the hell mach was Tom Cruise going before he entered into coitus with that blonde? What is the top theoretical speed of the current US fighter/and or/stealth aircraft?
What are the records here, that my tax-dollars are allegedly breaking?
Don't mod this retarded shit up, this is the uninformed wanting to become informed.
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what's worse is michael posted both
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
They don't need the B-52! Because of the power of the X-43a, it is taking off with a B-52 on its back just to show off!
Please don't mod this informative.
Dude...don't turn to trolling. Sure, it's fun at first. Especially back when I was a teenager discovering IRC. Man, you've never felt anything like successfully baiting Christian into telling you off. You wouldn't believe the things Christians will type but not say. Ahhhhh....I miss those days. But anyways, don't start trolling. Not here anyways. Geeks are your friend.
Okay, if it only takes 2.5 hours at top speed to go anywhere on the planet...
If the security check ins take any longer we'll need speeds like this to get anywhere. Besides, just think how fast all of your luggage can be lost and sent to Burma!