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X43-A on to Mach 10
Cat_Byte writes "On March 28 we read about the X43-A hitting Mach 7 with a successful scramjet test. Prior to that on June 2, 2001 the craft tore itself to pieces during a trial run. Well now they are preparing to hit Mach 10. The upcoming Mach 10 run of the X-43A appears to mark an end of the program. The seven-year, approximately $250 million Hyper-X program was created to provide unique "first time" data on hypersonic air-breathing engine technologies.
"At Mach 7, the front leading edge of the vehicle would see about 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit. At Mach 10, its probably twice that -- twice the heat load essentially," Sitz explained
FYI, Mach 10 is about 2 miles per second."
Wait, maybe I'm thinking of something else...
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It's great to see the Air Force putting that Ga'ould and Asgard technology to good use. That Stargate program is really paying off.
i hope that thing has killer A/C...
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Ah, but does it get 1700 miles per gallon?
Holy crap, they're up to Mach 10 now? I guess I'm going to have to throw my old razors away. You'd think that a razor with 10 blades would be rather unweildy but I sure as hell am not going to let my neighbor Jones beat me in the male-gromming-department! Man, those old Mach 3 blades were already pretty expensive. I hate to see how much this new shit is gonna cost...
GMD
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I could do my daily commute in 15 seconds. That would be fun.
Oh, you can have a commute like that right now. It's the stopping that's the problem.
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How does the Slashdot Effect happen given that no slashdotters ever RTFA?
Two miles per second means you can cross the Pacific in under an hour.
It's still going to take 4 hours just to get to the airport, check your baggage and get through security.
Just wait until everybody has one of these. Rush hour traffic will really be a rush. Will they make these as convertibles? I love the feeling of wind blowing by as I drive.
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I for one welcome our mach10 overlords..
er.. wait this is a US gov't project..
screw that..
When does spaceship one get one of those engines.. the sooner we get off this rock the better.
How soon before someone overclocks it to get Mach 11?
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If you happen to shave using a Mach 10 razor, does that correspond to the razor burn you experience?
Yes, there's a strange paradox in the slashdot crowd -- are we talking about the teenybopper no-testosterone can't-grow-facial-hair audience or the RMS/Mad Dog Hall full-beard-ain't-gonna-shave crowd?
I guess either way, a razor is out of the question. Nevermind then.
the Kessel run in under twelve parsecs?
... but there is still a 2 hour checkin
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He's talking about Neptune, West Virginia.
...a moisturizing Indicator® Lubrastrip(TM)...
...features Micro-Power(TM), a gentle pulsing action powered by a Duracell AAA battery.
...allowing a man to shave wherever he prefers.
...and the Duracell AAA battery is easy to insert...
Ugh. Did anyone else get a little creeped out reading some of this shit? They really need to fire whoever came up with stuff like that. Unless they are trying to subliminally market it as something other than a razor.
GMD
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Sounds like one hell of a razor, I'll wait for other people to test it before bringing it anywhere near my face though.
As long as he's not talking about zooming to uranus...
I can hear it now ludacriss speed GO! To me Spaceballs 2 coldnt come fast enough.
I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all ...
(S(SKK)(SKK))(S(SKK)(SKK))
What's it called now?
Urectum.
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Since it will probably be a suicide mission, let me be the first to nominate Ballmer! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPAAAGGHHHHHHH!
General Tufnel: The Mach numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Reporter: Oh, I see. And most planes go up to ten?
General Tufnel: Exactly.
Reporter: Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster?
General Tufnel: Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most pilots, you know, will be flying at ten. You're on ten, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your airspeed. Where can you go from there? Where?
Reporter: I don't know.
General Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Reporter: Put it up to eleven.
General Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One faster.
Reporter: Why don't you just make ten faster and make ten be the top number and make that a little faster?
General Tufnel: [Pause] These go to eleven.
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How in the world did the goatse.cx guy convince Taco to post that caption?
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I thought they killed off Data in the last movie. I guess not.
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However, the actual speed of mach varies. Mach is the speed of the object vs the speed of sound. The speed of sound changes with medium and temperature, so if they fly at 95,000 feet then mach 10 is 6730mph vs 7610mph at sea level. 6730mph is 1.8 miles/second vs 2.1 miles/second at sea level. - Wikipedia
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And after all that work I realize that your method is indeed close enough for most people
I thought that was about X11 and Gnu Mach. Must leave... Go outside.... Air...
So why am I still typing?
He's Q. He can resurrect Data if he wishes...