What Supersonic Looks Like Posted: 5 months ago by Bingo
A widely circulated photograph shows an Air Force Raptor 22 jet breaking the fabled sound barrier while performing aerial maneuvers in the Gulf of Alaska.
The phenomenon is not well studied. Scientists refer to it as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg, and it's thought to be created by what's called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity.
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Posted: 5 months ago by Moe:
Some really cool gallery photos in that link. Also look at the one with the 1969 moon mission rocket.
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Posted: 5 months ago by theshizknitt725:
That's just a tear in time/space.
No worries people.
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Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus:
Also posted here:
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Posted: 5 months ago by Huskerdu324:
« theshizknitt725 : That's just a tear in time/space.
No worries people. Time travel is just a sonic boom away.
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