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NASA to Attempt Mach 10 Flight Next Week
Dirak writes "NASA intends to break its own aircraft-speed record for the second time this year by flying X43a scramjet ten times faster than sound. On November 15 the X-43A supersonic-combustion ramjet - or scramjet - will again take to the skies aiming for Mach 10."
I don't know how this can be risky. No one will be in the thing when they fly it. How is that risky?
Mike
Now they can hurtle spacecraft towards Mars even faster before they malfunction and drift into outer space :D
Mach 10? Call me when you hit Warp 1, then we'll talk.
Ludicrous Speed!
I'm all for fast cool stuff, and technical gadgetry, but anyone know of any practical uses for this? I mean, wouldn't it run into the same sonic boom issues as the concorde? Perhaps even worse?
Or is this just a method for getting something to go fast enough to put it into orbit without a rocket? (which would be quite useful)
— darco
Speed of sound in a vacuum?
;)
Just a guess.
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I have no
I'm sure this aircraft will create a lot of wind when it goes by. This wind can then be harnessed by windmills, which will produce electricity. The electricity can be used for electrolysis, producing hydrogen. The hydrogen can be converted into jet fuel. It's the perfect cycle!
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You surely meant
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Is it so they can outrun the defeat in state after state?
Kerry won in Ohio. In a landslide. I don't see how Bush could possibly have won, because nobody I know voted for him. Nobody here in Islington voted for him. Nobody. Any fool who reads the Guardian knew not to vote for that moron and everybody reads the Guardian, at least everybody one knows.
It was those dreadful neoconservatives. They faked the results. Americans are morons. Have you heard how they talk? They even sound American. Morons, all of them.
But, but, Bush told me Sweden don't have any army! I'm comfused...
I am married and an engineer?
I am mauling an Aeronautical Engineer?
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
Sound does travel through the 'vacuum.' As any self respecting scientist will know, the medium through the sound propagates is the 'Aether,' a very diffuse, gas-like material.
Is that you George?
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but dosen't sound NOT travel through a vacuum?
Of course it does, otherwise we could not hear the Tie-Fighters screech past.
Dyslectics of the world, untie!
Belzu, may I present Messrs. Michelson and Morley, who would like to talk with you about this 'aether' jazz.