NASA Scramjet Sets a New Air-Speed Record
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Grats to Nasa, and my sympathies go to those who built the scramjet, because the jet crashed into the ocean after reaching its record-making speed, as it was designed to do (the aircraft had no human pilot).
A bit more from Nasa here
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On an unrelated note, my apologies for not getting to the story in which an American soldier killed a wounded insurgent in Iraq.. I will mention, however, that insurgents had been setting traps with their bodies or with the bodies of their killed comrades. This was a tactic used by both the Japanese in WWII and the Koreans and Vietnamese in the Cold War, and resulted in the deaths of many US troops. In fact, if my information is right, an explosion is heard in the background not long before the insurgent is killed. That explosion was from a booby-trapped corpse; one marine was killed and five others were injured by the explosion. If the insurgent was in fact alive, there was a good chance that he was planning to act exactly like the Palestinian suicide bombers, and take out several Americans in the process. In this case, I don't think you can blame the troop for killing the insurgent; who was firing at us from inside a mosque, against international rules, mind you. Personally, I don't really care that we killed another insurgent, except for the slight possibility that we may have gotten information out of him. Now, I am quite willing to rip at the media for showing the marine kill the insurgent without mentioning the fact that the insurgent could be planning to detonate himself along with several of our troops. If the media mentioned that little bit (plus the interesting detail that the soldier who kiled the insurgent had been shot in the face the day before), then I would be fine with them reporting the story. But, without the extra information, that's intentional manipulation of the event - and one of the most immoral acts that the media could commit.
By the way, need I reference the earlier articles in which the media claimed that they didn't publish the election exit poll results because it was unethical/immoral/against journalistic standards to do so? Where are those ethics and standards now?
A NASA research jet sets a new air speed record for air-breathing engines by traveling nearly 7,000 mph, or 10 times the speed of sound. The space agency's X-43A "scramjet" flew over the Pacific Ocean at 110,000 feet after being taken aloft under the wing of a B-52B bomber.
After its release from beneath the larger craft's wing, a booster rocket ignited, sending the X-43A on its way.
Grats to Nasa, and my sympathies go to those who built the scramjet, because the jet crashed into the ocean after reaching its record-making speed, as it was designed to do (the aircraft had no human pilot).
A bit more from Nasa here
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On an unrelated note, my apologies for not getting to the story in which an American soldier killed a wounded insurgent in Iraq.. I will mention, however, that insurgents had been setting traps with their bodies or with the bodies of their killed comrades. This was a tactic used by both the Japanese in WWII and the Koreans and Vietnamese in the Cold War, and resulted in the deaths of many US troops. In fact, if my information is right, an explosion is heard in the background not long before the insurgent is killed. That explosion was from a booby-trapped corpse; one marine was killed and five others were injured by the explosion. If the insurgent was in fact alive, there was a good chance that he was planning to act exactly like the Palestinian suicide bombers, and take out several Americans in the process. In this case, I don't think you can blame the troop for killing the insurgent; who was firing at us from inside a mosque, against international rules, mind you. Personally, I don't really care that we killed another insurgent, except for the slight possibility that we may have gotten information out of him. Now, I am quite willing to rip at the media for showing the marine kill the insurgent without mentioning the fact that the insurgent could be planning to detonate himself along with several of our troops. If the media mentioned that little bit (plus the interesting detail that the soldier who kiled the insurgent had been shot in the face the day before), then I would be fine with them reporting the story. But, without the extra information, that's intentional manipulation of the event - and one of the most immoral acts that the media could commit.
By the way, need I reference the earlier articles in which the media claimed that they didn't publish the election exit poll results because it was unethical/immoral/against journalistic standards to do so? Where are those ethics and standards now?
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