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Lenny
2006-01-07, 07:33 AM
I thought this was quite amazing.

The photo shows the Space Shuttle passing through the Sound Barrier and the Snoic Boom that is formed. You can see that the back of the Shuttle that hasn't passed through the Sound Barrier is blurred, whilst the front is in focus.
gruesomeBODY
2006-01-07, 08:11 AM
sweet find lenny
Titusfied
2006-01-07, 10:24 AM
Yeah, that's pretty phat. I'm confused though, where's Guile?
JRwakebord
2006-01-07, 01:35 PM
Bad. Assssssss.
Dar_Win
2006-01-07, 03:45 PM
Thats pretty cool.
HandOfHeaven
2006-01-07, 09:20 PM
Ha, first thing I thought of was Guile. That reminds me, I should dig up my SNES and play Street Fighter II: Turbo.


Lenny, where did you find that?
gruesomeBODY
2006-01-07, 10:59 PM
Ha, first thing I thought of was Guile. That reminds me, I should dig up my SNES and play Street Fighter II: Turbo.
After i saw it too, i brought out the old street fighter movie. Jean Claude Van Damme as Guile, awesome.
Penny_Bags
2006-01-08, 12:04 AM
Dammit! Upon seeing the picture I went through all this trouble of putting Guile behind it on MS paint..... but then I realized I wasn't the only creative one :(
Sovereign
2006-01-08, 12:25 AM
Looks pretty cool.

The picture of the fighter jet going supersonic is better though :P
Lenny
2006-01-08, 04:53 AM
I've not seen that one...though I remember seeing a video of some jet blasting through the sound barrier. Knocked everyone who was watching it down.

Lenny, where did you find that?

It's one of the News items on Torrentspy.


EDIT: Is this the picture of the Fighter Jet?
Penguin
2006-01-08, 06:43 AM
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DVXA,DVXA:2005-50,DVXA:en&q=Sonic%20Boom&sa=N&tab=wi
Penny_Bags
2006-01-08, 09:46 AM
I wonder if that is loud.
WetWired
2006-01-08, 01:15 PM
Loud enough to shake all the moisture out of the air...
Sovereign
2006-01-08, 06:03 PM
Can't it break glass?
Adrenachrome
2006-01-08, 09:12 PM
Yea, I was in the Chesapeake Bay when a jet broke the sound barrier too low and blew out all the windows in all the boats near it.

Super loud

You can find a vvideo of the boom somewhere ont he web
Lenny
2006-01-09, 01:29 PM
http://king.prps.k12.ca.us/endeavour/Special/SonicBoom.htm

I think that's the video to go with the F-18 pic I posted. No sound though...:mad:

I can't find the one I've seen. And it was such a good one too... :(