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More On Silent Supersonic Planes

Posted by timothy on from the more-of-a-phhhhffftt dept.

Reverberant writes "Popular Science describes the latest attempt at developing a supersonic plane designed to minimize sonic booms. The article describes some of the history behind the research, and recent attempts at validating the theory. Also note that researcher Ken Plotkin is a frequent contributer to alt.sci.physics.acoustics."

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  1. What's all this good for? by Tore+S+B · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Call me a dirty pinko hippie, but how is this fun for geeks? How will this help mankind? This is just another piece in the war machine puzzle that really won't do anyone any good. What we should try to do with the defense money is research that would benefit mankind, like medical research and things like that. It worked for ARPA.

    I do not intend to celebrate that the US war machine just got one notch more deadly, and is estimated to kill up to 20% more people.

    This won't solve anything. This won't make anything better for anyone.

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    toresbe