Comment Re:those billions (Score 1) 362
Oh, my kingdom for a mod point....
Oh, my kingdom for a mod point....
Because a reasonable person can understand they are comparing the speed of the shuttle in the medium in which it travels (space) with the speed of sound in the medium in which _it_ travels (ie. the atmosphere at ground level). This isn't rocket science.
like this:
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"wootm" ???
Dear god, anything but a copy and paste programmer. We had one here and the results and the results are devastating
So, did they let you keep working there, anyway?
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"