NASA isn't telling us something....

**revil** · 02-08-2003, 02:55 AM

I knew it all along!

**hoey222** · 02-08-2003, 05:33 AM

interesting.......

**xsiled2** · 02-08-2003, 06:59 AM

now that is speed

**JackHammer** · 02-08-2003, 07:23 AM

They got real idiots working for CNN.

**sho.gun** · 02-08-2003, 12:09 PM

lol...

I remember on the day the Columbia went down, CNN had something pasted on the bottom of the screen that says "Shuttle was travelling at speeds of Mock 18"

**dbax791** · 02-08-2003, 12:12 PM

Originally posted by sho.gun
lol...

I remember on the day the Columbia went down, CNN had something pasted on the bottom of the screen that says "Shuttle was travelling at speeds of Mock 18"

Yeah considering the best fighter jets can go only like Mock 2 or so, thats pretty impressive!

**coleslaw** · 02-08-2003, 12:25 PM

No, it's true. Columbia was travelling 12,500 miles per hour (Mach 18). However, that is not 18 times the speed of light - it's 18 times the speed of sound.

**ProMinx** · 02-08-2003, 12:26 PM

Originally posted by sho.gun
lol...

I remember on the day the Columbia went down, CNN had something pasted on the bottom of the screen that says "Shuttle was travelling at speeds of Mock 18"

Just a few corrections.
Mach, not mock (like the razor).
The Space shuttle can travel at speeds up to Mach 24 on re-entry. The reason the shuttle was going so much slower than Mach 24 was because they were going up, not coming down. The shuttle was going Mach 18. Have you ever been directly under a descending shuttle's path? It is amazingly loud.

ProMinx

**sho.gun** · 02-08-2003, 12:26 PM

yeah, it's just that "mock" generally isn't the way "mach" is spelled.

**ProMinx** · 02-08-2003, 12:30 PM

Here's some speeds for various flying objects (manmade and otherwise) for you to compare and true speeds. And the fastest jet is not Mach 2, it is Mach 3.3.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...ce/q0023.shtml

ProMinx

edit: heh heh...forgot to include the link.

**sho.gun** · 02-08-2003, 12:31 PM

Originally posted by ProMinx
Here's some speeds for various flying objects (manmade and otherwise) for you to compare and true speeds. And the fastest jet is not Mach 2, it is Mach 3.3.

ProMinx

lol where?

Btw, when did you pop back in here? Haven't seen you in a while...

wb

**ProMinx** · 02-08-2003, 05:43 PM

Originally posted by sho.gun

lol where?

Btw, when did you pop back in here? Haven't seen you in a while...

wb

I've been back for a week or so. There are so many people I don't recognize on the boards...but that is what happen when you adopt a (1-sine squared) posting pattern like mine...

ProMinx

**ProMinx** · 02-08-2003, 05:44 PM

Originally posted by DarkFury

"Ludicrous Speed..... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

They've gone to plaid!

ProMinx

**Kevster** · 02-09-2003, 07:25 AM

Originally posted by ProMinx
Here's some speeds for various flying objects (manmade and otherwise) for you to compare and true speeds. And the fastest jet is not Mach 2, it is Mach 3.3.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question...ce/q0023.shtml

ProMinx

edit: heh heh...forgot to include the link.

I love how the "official" speed is Mach 3.3.

I saw the SR-71 fly out of Beale AFB in No. California. I went on a tour and met the pilots and sat in the room with them while they were being suited up in their near-space suits. I even got to see one real up-close in it's hangar. In my opinion it's still one hell of an airplane at 40+ years old.

**johnnymk** · 02-09-2003, 08:37 AM

Mock 18... that speed really rocks....that would literally blow the socks off of someone!! Did Spock ever travel that fast?
Sounds like a crock to me.

**Devhux** · 02-09-2003, 05:38 PM

Originally posted by DarkFury

I'm sure Warp 9.6 is alot faster than "Mock 18" (spelled wrong intentionally )

For sure -- especially since Warp 1 is light-speed.

**InfiniteNothing** · 02-09-2003, 05:45 PM

Thank you LovesToStateTheObvious, though strictly speaking it's not speed that blows one's socks off, it's acceleration. So if you were going (somehow) warp 18, you probably wouldn't really notice it so much. Though, going that fast may make you take your socks off seeing as you might be going backwards in time.

**Hiro** · 02-09-2003, 06:28 PM

These conversations about the Columbia have been really interesting. Along with the posts on relative speeds, this board has had some great discussions on things that have been going on.