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Second Test of X-43A Scramjet Tomorrow

Posted by michael on from the once-the-rockets-go-up-who-cares-where-they-come-down dept.

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.

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  1. scramjet? by SoTuA · · Score: 5, Funny
    I thought it was an HP printer...

    Da-dum-ching!

    1. Re:scramjet? by The_Mr_Flibble · · Score: 5, Funny

      However Hp are seeking legal representation regarding trademark infringment. A spokesman for hp said "We wouldn't want our customers getting the two technologies confused and trying to fly on one of our printers".

  2. Ok, so Jet Propulsion Lab. does space.... by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  3. A hypothetical assumption. by c.emmertfoster · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  4. Obligatory Spaceballs comment by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Prepare ship for Ludicrous Speed! Fasten all seatbelts, seal all entrances and exits, close all shops in the mall, cancel the three ring circus, secure all animals in the zoo!"

    What have I DONE!?!?! MY BRAINS ARE GOING INTO MY FEEEET!!!

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  5. Re:Dupe.. by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    what's worse is michael posted both

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  6. Re:still need ... by skinny.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.