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More On Silent Supersonic Planes
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."
Where is that Hedgehog when you need him? Can't we tell him just to be quiet?
Friends help you move...
REAL Friends help you move dead bodies... ^_^
Conjugate much?
Not to mention, you can't stick your arm out the window when you're cruisin'.
Banaaaana!
If it's been published on the prestigious trade journal 'alt.sci.physics.acoustics', it must be true!
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
"Popular Science." No such thing, man. More like, "nerdular nerdance."
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I think he enjoys flipping way too much.
if a plane breaks the sound barrier and no one is around to hear it, does it make a boom?
What the fuck kind of idiocy is this? First of all, we already have stealth technology so we're already catching our opponents by surprise. Second, sonic booms are detected AFTER the aircraft flies overhead -- not before! The whole phenomenon of a sonic boom is that the aircraft is racing ahead of the "information" of its arrival (in the form of sound waves).
I'm not saying that a sonic-boom-free aircraft is of no military use. The shockwaves responsible for sonic booms cause drag to increase signficantly, thus requiring much more fuel. But the motivation certainly isn't one of trying to catch someone off guard.
GMD
watch this
"EVERYONE has heard a sonic boom at one point: the crack of a whip"
What are you saying about our hobbies?
so they finaly resolved the secret of those nazi ufos? was about time!
This won't solve anything. This won't make anything better for anyone.
I agree. Faster, cheaper travel never benefitted mankind in any way. Only fat, rich, white men could possibly want to travel the world in a timely, affordable manner.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
As long as it doesn't run Windows things should be okay.
Just ask JFK Jr.
I can't, my scuba certification isn't current.
This
That's easy... just yank out the wires to the subwoofers.
Yah and the two damn supersonic planes did nothing to frighten the poor little tortoise?
Oh well, what the hell...
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Oh well, what the hell...