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To: PhotoFixer3
"OH NO! look IT DIDNT GET OVER 7,000 :( almost... take a look.... speed of sound it appears that the speed of sound changes at different altitudes..."

I am going to assume that you are joking.

However, if you aren't then I certainly hope that you are not in a profession that requires math, physics, one of the other sciences or, for that matter, in any profession that requires the use of logic.

Using your logic, then satellites in low-earth orbit traveling @ 18K/hr are standing still since sound cannot travel in a vacuum. Their speed would be zero to infinity. Likewise, those satellites in high-earth orbit which are traveling at a substantially higher speed are also standing still for the same reason.

I certainly hope and pray that you are joking.....for your sake.....not for mine. :-)

134 posted on 11/16/2004 6:41:38 PM PST by El Gran Salseron (My wife just won the "Inmate of the Month" Award! :-))
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To: El Gran Salseron
I am going to assume that you are joking.

Well i knew alitude had an effect but I did not know it was so great, did you see the web page that I posted? there is a huge variance in mph from sea level to 30,000ft ! I thought there might be 5-15mph difference but... wow... No, I am not a scientist by any stretch, but I quickly did recover the bad information that I posted and fixed it...

135 posted on 11/16/2004 7:57:15 PM PST by PhotoFixer3
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To: El Gran Salseron
***UPDATE***

From The Drudge Report, i read that it hit Mach 9.7 that would translate to 6,528.1mph...

136 posted on 11/16/2004 8:59:18 PM PST by PhotoFixer3
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