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NASA Testing Supersonic X-51A Jet Tomorrow

Posted by Unknown on from the but-does-it-go-to-plaid? dept.

First time accepted submitter littlesparkvt writes "The NASA and the Pentagon's experimental aircraft could go from NY to London in about an hour. With a cost of 140 million dollars USD. During the test the X51-A will reach speeds of 1700 meters a second and climb to an altitude of 70,000 feet."

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  1. Re:Cost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You fucking idiots. This isn't a jet-plane. It's a fucking missile. You know, like the Wired article said it was, able to carry out global surgical strikes in minutes, without tripping enemy ICBM alarms?

    This now makes sense on Slashdot, as it has been bought out by Rob Malda and his neoconservative buddies at The Washington Post. A pro-Israel, anti-Islam agenda is being so very obviously pushed here that its disgusting. Former WaPo boss Katharine Graham was a Bilderburg attendee and pushed the neocon agenda of the newspaper. Her daughter, Lally Weymouth, continues to push the neocon agenda through her loaded interviews ( " So, $ARAB_LEADER, why are you and your friends assholes?! " ) published in Newsweek and WaPo. Rob Malda and his friends here at Slashdot are an anti-freedom, fifth-columnist shill army pushing the neocon agenda on all of you.

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