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Trump Backs Supersonic NASA Jet That Will Fly From New York to London in Three Hours
A sleek, experimental plane that would quietly crack the speed of sound and transform a trans-Atlantic flight into a three-hour hop received critical backing on Monday under NASA's budget request for the fiscal year that starts October 1, 2018. The document signals the Trump administration would like to prioritize the jet, as well as further research into faster-than-sound airplane technology.
The budget request refers to the Low-Boom Flight-Demonstrator, a plane NASA wants in order to bring back supersonic commercial flights by mitigating their most annoying side effect, the loud sonic boom that accompanies them.
That boom has always been the biggest stumbling block for commercial supersonic flight. It is caused by the sheer number of air particles the nose of the plane pushes aside as it flies. Those molecules form a wave of high pressure, like a boat's wake as NASA describes it, which rolls out like a carpet beneath the airplane.
Also at Space.com.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday February 14 2018, @06:21AM (4 children)
I asked my Defense Department -- my Pentagon -- to do a Nuclear Posturing Review. And they said, look at what Russia is doing. Russia is making a very smart move, they're getting baby nukes, they call them low yield, they call them Tactical. They're like Jeb Bush, very low energy. Amazingly QUIET!!!! And they can have as many as they want, because of treaties. So I told my Pentagon guys, let's do that too. And we're doing it. Let me tell you, we're going to have the QUIETEST nuclear bombs. To where we could set one off right next to you, and you wouldn't hear it.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:49AM
I know someone who has developed that technology. You never hear it. A few seconds later, you are bent over double, gagging.
Its cheap to fuel too.
( It runs on beans! )
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 14 2018, @03:14PM
Not especially sophisticated, are you, Donny? Nukes have always been quiet. You can actually sleep next to a nuke, confident that if it should blow, you will never hear it. That's because you're dead at least a couple nanoseconds before the sound arrives. It may seem noisy to the people five or more miles away, but, since you're already dead, you really don't give a damn about their perceptions.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday February 14 2018, @07:04PM (1 child)
Allright @DJT, you finally broke the illusion!
Clearly only the biggest nukes will make people forget about that other size....issue.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:59PM
My Generals told me something very smart. They said, "it's not the size, it's how you use it." Say you want to shoot someone but you're TERRIBLE at shooting. You get a very big gun. North Korea, they shoot people with Anti Aircraft guns. They shoot you in the leg with an Anti Aircraft gun, you die. They shoot you in the arm, you die. Because the bullet is HUGE, it takes off your arm or your leg. And you're bleeding very badly. Worse than Megyn. Worse than Crazy Mika. I'll tell you, it's not a nice way to die. But let's say you're TERRIFIC at shooting. You shoot a guy with a .22 and he's gonna die. VERY SMALL bullet but you know EXACTLY where to put it, it's amazing. There's this tiny little hole where you put it in, and the guy's dead. It's a beautiful thing. And our nuclear arsenal, we're making it like that. We're gonna have the smallest, smallest nukes. But the most exact. They will have a flash. A very small flash, like when you take a selfie. And they will have a bang. A very small bang. Like the bang from a dude with micropenis. His penis is so tiny, right? He screws you, you ask yourself, "am I getting screwed?" You don't know if he's screwing you. You know it when you get pregnant. And maybe, probably, he makes a beautiful and very smart child with you. Our nuclear arsenal is going to be like that. Folks are going to be like, "where's Kim, have you seen Kim?" And "Kim's gone, maybe, probably, President Donald J. Trump nuked him, thank you President Trump!"
Another thing my Generals told me -- not many people know this -- our nuclear arsenal has three legs. Missiles, submarines and bombers. Our bombers are the third leg. So important! And we have bombers that are supposed to be invisible. Believe me, they're not invisible. They're invisible to RADAR. But you can see them very easily. And they make noise, a mike can pick them up. Billy Bush, he picked up some stuff with a mike. He made a tape, his camera guy made a tape when I didn't know he was taping, it was almost a problem. It could have been a problem. But I said something smart and it was OK. Let me tell you, when we're in a nuclear war we don't want any problems when we send our bombers. So we want them to be VERY QUIET. So maybe, probably, we'll have some terrific low-boom bombers to carry our low-yield nuclear weapons. WINNING!!