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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

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

    • vindEnglish
      440·
      9 months ago

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

      • KevonLooneyEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        Even regular planes have negative effects on the neighborhoods they take off and land over. This is definitely going to be worse.

        I’ll only believe the “low noise” PR if it flies supersonic directly over Malibu or the Hamptons and Nantucket.

      • Simulation6English
        512·
        9 months ago

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

        • MeowoemEnglish
          62·
          9 months ago

          Oh gosh a noise the volume of a distant car door closing! Panic!

        • Mr_BlottEnglish
          66·
          9 months ago

          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?

          • Simulation6English
            32·
            9 months ago

            May I suggest a blott?

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

            • Mr_BlottEnglish
              21·
              9 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

              • Simulation6English
                21·
                9 months ago

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

      • sighofannoyanceEnglish
        320·
        9 months ago

        Maybe we just have different ideas of what quiet is…

        • CocodapufEnglish
          511·
          9 months ago

          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.

          • poppyEnglish
            30·
            9 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.