NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

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    8 months ago

    The Sonic Boom will sound more like your neighbours car door closing than an explosion

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      8 months ago

      A sonic thump could still be very disturbing. Maybe not break windows, but induce panic I a lot of people.

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        Jesus fucking Christ, we need a word for cunts in the comments who’ll find any fuckin reason to suggest a really specific reason to be against/offended about something on behalf of someone else 😂

        Is there a word for that?

        Can we make one?

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          8 months ago

          May I suggest a blott?

          And what is so bad about not wanting sonic booms of any sort happening over my head?

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            8 months ago

            I was making a point about the 0.00000001% of people that could be distressed by that but you didn’t understand my comment

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              Sorry, I missed the part were it was such a small number. I also doubt that number is true.

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        Yeah, apparently we do…

        The problem with Sonic booms isn’t that you notice them, it’s fine to notice the sound of a vehicle traveling overhead. The problem is that the sound from previous supersonic jets has shattered windows all along the flight path, ruptured eardrums and caused moderate hearing loss.That is a problem…

        If this instead sounds like a car door closing, I’d call that significantly quieter.

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          8 months ago

          I was at work in a bank (big, sturdy, multiple stories) when we experienced a sonic boom. It was heard/felt across several counties. We thought a bomb had gone off somewhere.