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Science & Technology
National hypersonic science centers named
2009-03-16
California, Texas and Virginia.

Officials said the three centers will advance research in air-breathing propulsion, materials and structures, and boundary layer control for aircraft that can travel at Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, and faster.
Posted by:3dc

#7  ION REDDIT > SCIETISTS SEEK TO REPLICATE THE SUN; + US PENTAGON'S DARPA TO BEGIN INVESTING IN GEO-ENGINEERING [Man-made/controlled Global Climate-Weather = Enviro Control]

D *** NG IT, when JEAN-LUC PICARD absolutely positively categorically undeniably ... HAS TO BUILD A SUPER-MISSLE TO DESTROY THE SUN, ETC. OVERNITE [force the SUN + SPACE + Orion Babes, etc. to surrender]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-16 22:02  

#6  ION FREEREPUBLIC > GLOBAL WARMING COULD KILL 6.0 BILYUHN.

I amma gonna guess that so-called "HYPERSONIC" may NOT be fast = velocitious enuff.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-16 21:29  

#5  Let me guess. Robert C. Byrd, Byrd, and Byrd Hypersonic Science Centers.
Posted by: ed   2009-03-16 19:02  

#4  FREEREPUBLIC > GLOBAL BANK, GLOBAL CURRENCY IN ANOTHER 15 YEARS?

KELLY BUNDY = "THE HELL YOU SAY"! She's shocked, she tells ya, Shocked SHOCKED S-O-O-...-O-C-K-E-D [NOT]!

* Probably by circa Year 2050 the OWG USSA = USR will see more and more of popular or mass-produced "flying cars". CORSICANT'S = ROME/CARTHAGE,USA, etc. may have to wait until the first MOON/LUNAR BASES ARE ESTABLISHED - D *** NGED "FREE MARKET" THINGYS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-03-16 18:32  

#3  Aurora?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread60763/pg1
Posted by: BrerRabbit   2009-03-16 12:35  

#2  Well, the Pentagon isn't convinced of that Snowy.

FWIW
Posted by: lotp   2009-03-16 08:59  

#1  Hypersonic airbreathers are one of NASA's version of the tokamak. It's a way to spend billions of dollars on launcher technology and still get an expensive and/or non-working launcher.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2009-03-16 08:25  

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