Comment on NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft

• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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?

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    • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      May I suggest a blott?

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

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      • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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  • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe we just have different ideas of what quiet is…

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • poppy@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • sighofannoyance@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      shattered windows

      damn…

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• KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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