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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      In the future people will even be able to play chess with someone across the world, and even order a pizza to their door on the telephone.

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        and even order a pizza to their door on the telephone.

        While living on the moon. (50s futurists aimed high.)

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            I agree. But sadly, a lot of progress is driven buy conflict as well.

            Unless a nation is under an existential threat there is little motivation to invest in progress.

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              If you can order a missile strike a country away, you should bee able to put a pizza in it. Progress

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        Shut the fuck up! Now Vader, he’s a spiritual brother, with the force and all that shit. Then this cracker Skywalker gets his hands on a lightsaber, and the boy decides he’s goinna run the fucking universe - gets a whole Klan of whites together, and they’re gonna bust up Vader’s 'hood - the Death Star. Now what the fuck do you call that?

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    If they are taking about an “X-59” it’s because the classified tests on the “X-109” went well.

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    Guys, check out the cockpit.

    I know technology is wildly advanced and he probably has a 360 view now, but other than test pilots, who are you going to get to fly a plane that lacks a forward view?

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

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        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.

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

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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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            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.

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      Considering that splitting supersonic shockwaves in the air is kind of analogous to splitting the water when plunge-diving for fish (which at least some pterosaurids are hypothesized to have done), that makes sense.

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    It’s like a blind Pinocchio flying at the speed of sound controlled by a touch screen. 2024, ladies and gents.

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        It was a joke.

        But no, I don’t believe it’s controlled with a touch screen. Though it is “daring” shall we say… to make a plane with no cockpit windows.

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          In commercial airliners, nearly the entire flight is now closely monitored and controlled by redundant computer systems. And the pilots rarely use the front window, they mostly fly by instrument.

          Cameras as the cockpit windows aren’t really that crazy at this point. Really glass cockpits are a formality.

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            Glass cockpit is a specific term for flight decks that have replaced analog gauges with digital gauges and screens.

            Pilots use the windows all of the time. They use it to look for traffic and for vfr approaches.

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          It’s really not, flying without looking out the window is very common especially for NASA and the USAF.

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    There is zero need to revive SSTs. We need to focus on slow transport using renewable energy.

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      Using SAF especially e fuels it could actually turn out to be a very environmentally sustainable mode of transport for long flights.

      Plus if people flew to a sustainable resorts rather than take a cruse for example it’d be far better.