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I wait for the day NASA loses out on a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment because something they shot up years ago plows into it at Mach 200.
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Malcolm wrote:I wait for the day NASA loses out on a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment because something they shot up years ago plows into it at Mach 200.
I'm more interested in what the lawsuits are going to look like when some negligently lost wrench destroys a private satellite.
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GORDON wrote:Is it possible to have a mach speed rating in space?
Technically not since it's the speed of sound at sea level with a standard atmosphere worth of pressure. Since it's science, though, you just need a new unit of measurement. I suggest the Fach.
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"Fach 3, then?"
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Was thinking about my question this evening while in lines at a local amusement park... the mach rating can really only apply to shit on Earth. Future fighter plane battles in space and in other atmospheres will have to be explained in completely different terms, for example, how many hogheads to a gallon? Units of measurement to which no one can any longer relate.
Using Mach as a speed rating is extremely limited.
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