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Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful
Sector Bug writes "NASA's X43A research aircraft made its third and final flight today, firing its scramjet engine at Mach 10 (7,000 MPH) or close to it, setting a new record. "
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X43A blurs past the camera. It is silent.
Marvin: "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"
EARTH SHATTERING KABOOM!
Marvin: "At last!"
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
we shall call it the ludicrous speed.
You can't handle the truth.
I understand he was a very fast guy, much to his wife's chagrin.
Now, when I tell those guys I want my pizza in 30 minutes or less, there is no excuse!
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
By the way (and massively OT), doesn't a "Guinness Record" sound like something you'd like to break yourself, at least if it involved consumption?
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Steve Jobs invented mach speed.
Let's hope that this type of engine isn't adopted by commercial arlines. If it were, a flight cross country would take less than an hour, and the flight crew wouldn't have time to get us all drinks and peanuts.
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
It takes a while for them to catch up because CNN is only operating at Mach 9.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
MPH? we still use that? I thought maybe in this age of newfangled units, we'd at least get like, .41 times that of the Hubble Telescope, or 34.7 times faster than a lambourghini diablo.
Moo.
The important question is, what would Mach 10 be in warp speed?
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
You mean like this size?
Hopefully, it is one of these and not one of these
What's that come to in migrating swallows?
So, at Mach 10, can anyone hear you scream?
It's not like they put it into space, twice in two weeks, for under 10 million dollars.
"If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer
African or European?
Yes.
At least it doesn't refer to how many Horses equivalent are Powering the damn thing ;-p
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
An USCS episode can be dramatic, depending on the Km/h value. At high Km/h values, the victim is running so fast that the bucket carriers cannot catch him. On top of that, the wind of his frantic run vents the fire, which of course burns even hotter, quickening his race. After a certain threshold, the poor guy's genitals burns to a crisp. The critical speed is called "Mach speed" (pronounced Mack), after an early victim.
So unless you are referring to these sad but uncomon accidents, the metric unit you want to use is km/h, with a small k meaning kilo, not the capital K of Kelvin.
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That's around 12 000 Km/h for those who use the more civilized metric system.
Is that metric hours?
Well, it depends on its air-speed velocity while carrying a medium-sized coconut.
My friends and I have given up on inches, meters, yards, miles, etc, and have substituted them all with yey's. E.g: How big is book? About yey thick. How far away were you? About yey far. How fast did you end up driving? Meh, yey fast.
To allow particle accelerators you need to expand your parameters a bit to include natural objects accelerated by man.
No no no, you're looking at it all wrong...
The particle accelerator is a man-made object accelerated to 0.99c.
You just have to use the electron's frame reference!
Fnord.
...instead you'd have your house, garden and neighbourhood replaced with a huge crater with a squashed packet from amazon in the centre?