That includes a nastier version of the Sonic Boom, Solid Puncher, which lets him throw out continuous Sonic Boom projectiles.
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"Didn't sound from where I live [like] a sonic boom," said Cherie Doughan, who heard the sonic boom near Cape Haze in southwest Florida.
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That Mysterious Sonic Boom Was From A U.S. Navy F-35C Out Of Maryland (Updated)Just what the hell was that sonic boom everyone heard in New York and New Jersey this afternoon?
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It's like a sonic boom but for light instead of sound.
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Blending also helps damp down the generation of a sonic boom.
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Especially if you want to feel a sonic boom (or four).
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"The bow shock is analogous to a sonic boom," said Kurth.
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It's the optical equivalent of a sonic boom, Ojha told Axios.
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And the phenomenon is similar to that of a sonic boom.
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"It's more like a sonic boom or a thunderclap," Buddemeier said.
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In 2012, South Jersey experienced a sonic boom after a military exercise.
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A sonic boom results, as the jet flies past the propagating soundwaves.
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"Bang Zone" map from the S/S/T and Sonic Boom Handbook (1970).
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A secretive space plane returned to Earth on Sunday with a sonic boom.
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More often, it was a sonic boom from an Israeli air force jet.
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Each rocket unleashed a double sonic boom as it neared the landing zone.
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A sonic boom shook the area as the booster sped back to Earth.
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Pain like a sonic boom is blowing out the paper walls of her skull.
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It's a free download, so go nab this and sonic boom your ears off.
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This isn't the first time residents of New Jersey have experienced a sonic boom.
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The landing caused a sonic boom to be heard all the way to Orlando.
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The space plane sent a sonic boom that rattled east-central Florida before 8 a.m.
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A sonic boom is a noise that you hear any time a supersonic aircraft flies over.
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The United States Geological Survey confirmed a sonic boom hit just northeast of Hammonton, New Jersey.
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Because of its sonic boom, the jet was not allowed to reach supersonic speeds over land.
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They also generate an inevitable sonic boom so disruptive that Congress banned the Concorde from overland routes.
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In the video below, what seems to be a sonic boom can be heard at 0:46.
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I've always loved how he sang in any of his groups: Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Sonic Boom, whatever.
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Jet2 added that the jet fighters caused a sonic boom in their rush to accompany the plane.
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A sonic boom is a shock wave felt when something travels faster than the speed of sound.
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He mistook the sonic boom of the rocket's re-entry for the sound of an actual explosion.
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The blast sent glass flying from windows that shattered when a sonic boom followed the meteor's explosion.
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So when it hits our atmosphere it causes a sonic boom, and that's what rattled the houses.
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Would coming out of warp create the equivalent of a sonic boom that would destroy the destination?
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To make a long story short, the sound released from the fireball is called a sonic boom.
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The Galveston test will be a shorter, gentler version of a sonic boom experiment done five decades ago.
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"We went outside and saw a jet and thought it must have been a sonic boom," says Noakes.
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The spaceplane caused a sonic boom that woke up people living near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Previously reported "earthquake activity" now confirmed to be a sonic boom from an aircraft by US Geological Survey.
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A second later the double whipcrack of its sonic boom signals the end of the eight-minute journey.
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Nearby residents reported hearing what sounded like a "sonic boom" coming from the lake at 7:19 p.m.
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Ravens wheeled, and I startled at a double thud of sonic boom from fighter jets performing exercises overhead.
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The crack is a small sonic boom made when the whip moves faster than the speed of sound.
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Many people were hit by flying glass when windows shattered from the sonic boom that followed the meteor's explosion.
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We have liaised with Essex Police who are confirming that this is a sonic boom from a passing aircraft.
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Each announced their presence back on home soil with a sonic boom that echoed across the entire space center.
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Sven defeated his first-ever on-stream opponent Musashi at Sonic Boom IV despite not being able to see.
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"[The box the records came in] said 'artist/title,'" Blair Whatamore, a record buyer for sonic Boom told Pitchfork.
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" Another user named Christopher Keller described them as akin to a sonic boom, saying he felt a "pressure wave.
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To measure the sudden noise of a sonic boom, NASA uses a scale called perceived decibel level, or PLdB.
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When a bullet breaks the sound barrier, it produces a small sonic boom that registers as an audible crack.
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A big problem with supersonic flight was that the sonic boom made it too loud to fly over populated areas.
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That's so Florida An Air Force space plane woke up snoozing residents on Florida's space coast with a sonic boom.
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A sonic boom smacks our ears, and I'm wondering whether a fiery explosion will make this Shepard flight its last.
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If plotted onto a graph, the two peaks in pressure from a sonic boom resemble an "N" shape in time.
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Tests have also been carried out using sonic-boom simulators to see what sorts of sounds people find less intrusive.
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Reducing the sound of a sonic boom is made possible with computational fluid dynamics, which relies on powerful computer systems.
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NASA's goal is to not produce a sonic boom at all, but something that sounds more like a soft thud.
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"I'm trying not to use the word sonic boom," said Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Commercial Supersonics Technology Project.
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It was a small tweak to a song like Late Registration's "We Major," which employed horns for its sonic boom.
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Emanating calm like a sonic wave across great distances, like sending out a sonic boom of self-worth and healing.
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When the loop hits the speed of sound, that's what creates the sonic boom, which we experience as a loud crack.
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While the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted a military drill in Florida yesterday, it denies involvement in today's sonic boom.
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" —Laila Khan, Sonic Boom Six "We played Warped Tour years back, we've known Kevin [Lyman, Warped Tour founder] since the 80s.
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The blast, which was caused by a gas leak according to authorities, felt like a "sonic boom," CBS New York reports.
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Because the positron moves so quickly through the water, it emits the optical equivalent of a sonic boom, called Cherenkov radiation.
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A sonic boom is the noise caused by the shock wave from an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of sound.
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It can explode when it collides with the denser atmosphere, creating a sonic boom it occurs close enough to the surface.
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The explosive sound that is normally associated with a sonic boom occurs when an object goes faster than the speed of sound.
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The ability to fly supersonic without a sonic boom may one day result in lifting current restrictions on supersonic flight over land.
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The real trick is doing it without creating the eardrum-battering sonic boom, a key hurdle to reviving supersonic flight for civilians.
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This involves directing the sonic boom in such a way as to refract it through layers of thicker air at lower altitude.
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Whatever it was, it broke up over the Wasatch Mountains in Utah last night, producing an audible sonic boom, according to residents.
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"Thought somebody crashed into my garage ... It was just a sonic boom ... Thanks @NASA for the scare!" said one woman on Twitter.
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One of the byproducts of supersonic flight is the sonic boom, which can be unpleasant or distressing to those on the ground.
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One stumbling block to trans-American routes is federal sonic boom regulation which has prevented supersonic travel over U.S. skies since 1973.
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There were mathematicians at our church, sonic boom experts in my mother's sorority and electrical engineers in my parents' college alumni associations. . . .
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The company says it's figured out how to make the sonic boom quiet enough that it wouldn't bother people on the ground.
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An object moving through the air produces an audible shock wave — a sonic boom — when it reaches about 760 miles per hour.
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On a recent visit, the screech of a red-tail hawk was followed by the earthshaking sonic boom of a military jet.
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In fact, snapping its claw shut creates a sonic boom that can reach 210 decibels, one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.
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Besides Ariel, you've also worked with a range of left-field musicians from Royal Trux's Jennifer Herrema and Sonic Boom to Connan Mockasin.
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) confirmed that the noise was a sonic boom caused by RAF Typhoon jets scrambling over the London skies.
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Some in Wisconsin reported hearing a sonic boom, which is caused when a meteor enters the atmosphere, said NWS meteorologist Sarah Marquardt in Milwaukee.
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Switzerland's air force confirmed that a "sonic boom" heard Tuesday morning was the result of a "hot mission" involving two of its FA-18s.
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Air Force officials say an unmanned mini space shuttle landing at Kennedy Space Center caused a sonic boom that shook central Florida early Sunday.
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Since many have asked: A sonic boom travels through the air w/ the airplane so it arrives at different ground locations at different times.
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But the vibrations from the sonic boom are sometimes intense enough to be picked up by seismometers, machines that measure shaking in the ground.
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It&aposs the most famous thing the most famous physicist ever…Read more ReadWith light, creating a photonic sonic boom is a little more tricky.
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Thiem slammed backhands for all they were worth, cleaned the lines with his forehand, and the sonic boom from his serve resonated around the court.
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Blending engine and body, together with design tweaks such as a specially shaped long, thin nose, can muffle a sonic boom before it gets going.
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The trouble is, something else has also refused to go away: the shock wave known as a sonic boom that emanates from a supersonic aircraft.
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It was a "sonic boom," according to seismologists with the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, which noted that the first shake, felt at 25:228 p.m.
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When a plane is flying at supersonic speeds, sound from its engines piles up into a cone-shaped shock wave known as a sonic boom.
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A sonic boom is formed when an aircraft travels faster than the speed of sound, which is around 1,240kph (770mph, or Mach 1) at sea level.
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They also pledge to dampen the famous sonic boom which depressed Concorde's sales and restricted its operations until it was grounded for economic reasons in 2003.
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Click here to view original GIF Image: Jinyang Liang and Lihong V. Wang Scientists have finally filmed what's known as a "sonic boom" being created by light.
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This aircraft will allow NASA to fly supersonic while producing shockwaves in such a way that they produce "only a quiet rumble" rather than a sonic boom.
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The judges mentioned that Karamo brought his intensity and Carrie Ann said that he was a "sonic boom" on the dance floor, and I couldn't agree more.
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Mr Coen says the experimental low-boom aircraft should produce a sonic boom with a noise level below 70 PLdB, compared with about 100 PLdB for Concorde.
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As charged particles (called the solar wind) approach this invisible shield at supersonic speeds, they're heated up and slowed down, producing something akin to a sonic boom.
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Egan and Guerrero both work for developer Sanzaru Games, which develops more family-friendly titles such as Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice and Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time.
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His arms are blue, like the Sonic Boom version, and the new design also fades Sonic's blue fur into his tan mouth for a slightly more realistic depiction.
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When the Concorde crossed the sound barrier, topping 786 miles per hour, the double sonic boom it generated eventually led to a worldwide ban on commercial supersonic aircraft.
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The plane will have a quieter, stretched-out sonic boom, known as a low boom, that sounds something like a car door slamming to folks on the ground.
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Sven is a Street Fighter V player who made his official tournament debut this weekend, grabbing two wins in the group stage of Sonic Boom IV in Madrid.
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This plane will be capable of reaching supersonic speeds, but instead of producing a sonic boom, it'll make a rumbling sound once it exceeds the speed of sound.
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On its return a few minutes after launch, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket created a sonic boom that could be heard in several California counties.
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As the Hellfire missile sped toward the small house, he said, a small child — possibly frightened by the missile's sonic boom — ran into the house and was killed.
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The USGS is pretty sure that it was a sonic boom, a thunder-like clap of sound caused when a vessel travels faster than the speed of sound.
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" Essex Police added: "There is a possibility that residents nearby may have heard a loud noise, often associated with a sonic boom, as the aircraft descended into Stansted airspace.
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A sonic boom is not a sound wave, but a shock wave, an outburst of compressed energy created by an object traveling ahead of the sound waves it creates.
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In the 1990 televised Motown retrospective Motown 30, Jackson State University's band, the "Sonic Boom of the South," and its J-Settes marched and performed at the Pantages Theatre.
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It's a move away from of parkour and exploration system of Lost World and whatever the hell was going on with the poorly received Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
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Scientists have known for over 100 years that it's basically a sonic boom that occurs when one part of the whip starts moving faster than the speed of sound.
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After the Oklahoma City tests, environmental groups — such as the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom (CLASB) and the Coalition Against the SST — sprung up to complain about the booms.
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A kid would be better off watching the shows Sonic X or the more recent Sonic Boom if they're looking for a good non-gaming take on Sonic and friends.
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Buoyed by rich investors who want faster private jets, these startups are testing new technologies that could muffle the sonic boom that occurs when an airplane breaks the sound barrier.
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A sonic boom travels through the air with an airplane after it passes the sound barrier, so it arrives at different ground locations at different times, according to the USGS.
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When we were nearly to the top (or so I kept telling myself), a sonic boom rippled through the air, momentarily interrupting the birdsong echoing off the canyon's upper reaches.
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One of the game's most iconic character types is the Glitter Boy, a towering suit of laser-resistant armor with a cannon so powerful that firing it creates a sonic boom.
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Only minor property damage such as shattered windows—probably from the sonic boom generated by the object surpassing the speed of sound—was reported to have resulted, with no injuries.[CNET]
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NASA is working on a small experimental single-engined jet, which engineers believe will be able to reduce a sonic boom to something that resembles a soft thump in the distance.
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It's an odd thing that Farrow's letter — which resonated like a sonic boom — caused reporters to look into other prominent figures whose sordid pasts had been forgotten or concealed, but it did.
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Together, these films — along with others in the Sundance lineup, including "As You Are," a teenage drama that turns on the availability of weapons — could add up to a cultural sonic boom.
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The U.K.'s vote to leave sent a sonic boom through global markets as the S&P had its worst open since 1986 and the British pound touched a 30-year low.
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NASA, America's aeronautics agency, and Lockheed Martin have been experimenting with ways of reducing the intrusive bang of a sonic boom into a sound that resembles a soft thump in the distance.
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Every now and then, a neutrino will collide into a nuclei to create a muon, and when that happens it will emit a flash of blue light, akin to a sonic boom.
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BOSCO is part of NASA's Quiet Supersonic Technology program, which aims (as you might have guessed already) to create a supersonic aircraft that doesn't create that vexing sonic boom wherever it goes.
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He explained that Honeywell's input is to take the NASA data and allow a pilot to visualize on screen what impact a sonic boom is having on the ground below the plane.
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Lockheed Martin has won a nearly quarter-billion dollar NASA contract to develop a plane capable of supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
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MILAN (Reuters) - A sonic boom rippled across northern Italy on Thursday after the air force scrambled two fighter jets to intercept a French passenger plane that temporarily lost contact with ground control.
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When a cosmic ray passes through, it creates a flash of blue light like the light equivalent of a sonic boom, since the speed of light is slower in water than in air.
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But because a sonic boom travels behind an aircraft, the thump would not only hit people near the airport but would follow the entire flight path of the aircraft while it is supersonic.
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The U.S. Air Force released sonic boom warnings to California residents ahead of the launch, as this was also the first time SpaceX landed its rocket back near the West Coast launch site.
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In an earlier trial the agency used a modified F-5 fighter which had been fitted with an extended nose shaped like a pelican's, to help reduce the noise of a sonic boom.
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"So a pilot gets an understanding if they are getting into a region where the impingement of a sonic boom on a populated area was getting more critical or less critical," Smith added.
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"I heard what sounded to me like a sonic boom from an aircraft which shook the ground below," said Kurt Baker, a student at the university who had just exited the Florida Turnpike.
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However, the Royal Air Force and the local police confirmed that the noise wasn&apost an explosion after all — it was a sonic boom resulting from RAF Typhoon jets breaking the sound barrier.
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Earlier this year, NASA awarded Lockheed a contract worth nearly $250 million to develop an aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
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Last year, NASA awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth nearly $250 million to develop an aircraft capable of reaching supersonic speed without creating the deafening sonic boom that comes with breaking the sound barrier.
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London (CNN)A "loud bang" heard in north London was the result of a sonic boom from RAF jets, which were scrambled after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace, officials said on Sunday.
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In 2002, the University of Arizona's Alain Goriely published a paper in Physical Review Letters showing that the sonic boom isn't created by the tip, but a loop traveling along the length of the whip.
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Tremors felt by residents of New Jersey Shore and Long Island today prompted speculation that an earthquake had occurred—but the US Geological Survey confirmed that the rumbling sensations were caused by a sonic boom.
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From Rogoway: The U.S. Navy has said the sonic boom was very likely caused by the F-35C, the Navy's version of the Joint Strike Fighter, that was executing test maneuvers in the area today.
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That's because when planes go faster than the speed of sound, they create a sonic boom as intense and startling as a cannon blast, prompting the feds to ban them from US commercial flights over land.
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As Railway Gazette notes, the nose has been redesigned to have a modified 'dual supreme wing type' profile, which will reportedly improve airflow and reduce a sonic boom effect while the train is moving through tunnels.
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About ten minutes later, an orange orb descended from the clouds, gracefully touching down on the pad, but this time the cheers greeting its return were drowned out by the sonic boom that followed its landing.
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For all of their visual glory, large-scale fireworks are essentially mortar rounds — aerial shells made up mostly of gunpowder, plus proprietary concoctions of chemicals, which create a sonic boom as the exploding gases rapidly expand.
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The situation on board was judged to be so serious that the jets sped to the plane, creating a sonic boom that "could be heard for miles around," the airline said in a statement in July.
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Boom says its aircraft, priced at $200 million, will produce a sonic boom at least 30 times quieter than the Concorde, which was also dogged by high operating costs and fuel consumption and low capacity utilization.
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The AMS received numerous witness reports of a sonic boom along with the flame show, which, according to Hankey, means the fireball penetrated deep into our atmosphere and most likely produced harmless meteorites that fell to Earth.
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Chris Paulson, the administrative services director for the city of Alhambra, also called it a "sonic boom type of sound," made all the more strange by the fact that it's being reported across an unusually wide area.
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It may sound silly but it was a genuinely awe-inspiring thing: the lightning turned the room incandescent, the sonic boom rattled the window like cannon fire, and then left with a bass rumble like continental drift.
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While such an aircraft would traditionally create a sonic boom, NASA expects the new aircraft to create a sound of less than half the noise level — or more akin to the sound of a closing car door.
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And when a state actor summons a sonic boom of nonsense and sends it rattling through the largest communication platform ever invented, there's no telling who might hear the echoes — and maybe even follow that actor's lead.
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And in the hours following the rocket launch and startling sonic boom, Florida's governor ordered the evacuation of the space coast's surrounding counties to protect from a storm that has already left parts of the Caribbean in ruin.
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First up was Alison Roman, a New York Times contributor whose first book, "Dining In" (2017), set off a small sonic boom in millennial kitchens across the country with its unfussy dinner recipes and much-Instagrammed shortbread cookies.
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It will be used to collect community response data on the acceptability of the quiet sonic boom generated by the aircraft, helping NASA establish an acceptable commercial supersonic noise standard to overturn current regulations banning supersonic travel over land.
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The idea at NASA is that by tweaking the design of a supersonic jet in various ways it should be possible to smooth out the N-wave of a sonic boom so that it resembles a softer "U" shape.
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It could be in support of a game (that isn't the 3DS-exclusive Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, which has been coming for a while), but it could just as easily be artwork for a retrospective documentary about the series.
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According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a sonic boom is a deafening noise that people on the ground hear when a nearby aircraft flies faster than the speed of sound, which is roughly 760 miles per hour.
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The flight from Kaunas to London Luton was diverted to London's Stansted airport, the British airport designated to deal with major incidents, and there were reports of a sonic boom over eastern England when the fighter jets were deployed.
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This was the first time the spacecraft landed in Florida — it touched down at Vandenberg Air Force Base after each of its previous three missions — and woke up residents with a sonic boom this morning, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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I honestly don't have the answer to that, why it is, but I know it's a combination of a few things that are being addressed by bands like War On Women, and our band Sonic Boom Six, Bad Cop/Bad Cop.
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Part of the shift can be credited to producer and ex-Spacemen 212018 member Sonic Boom, who guided the Baltimore duo away from the polish and winsome of much of its past work and into the eye of recklessness and fragility.
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A sonic boom is the product of a series of shock waves arising from various parts of an aircraft—particularly its nose, wings and engines—as it flies faster than the speed of sound (1,240kph, 770mph or Mach 1, at sea level).
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I'm not suggesting he stop in the middle of a super-powered brawl to save a kitten from a tree, but even Brandon Routh thought to use his heat vision on the fly to disintegrate deadly falling debris after a sonic boom.
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A sonic boom trailing behind the aircraft would rattle windows and dislodge roof tiles in Devon and Cornwall, two western British counties under the aircraft's flight path from London to New York, a journey it could complete in just over three hours.
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The gaunt, straggly-haired Spaceman as he was called, formed the band in 22008 as Spacemen 21997 was crumbling from the result of his acrimonious relationship with paper-thin bandmate Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember, a 269/7 shades wearer with a bowl cut.
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True missteps were rare in the 1990s, the isometric nightmare of Flickies' Island aside—it wasn't until the three-dimensional adventures of sixth-generation consoles that Sonic's stock began to fall, hitting rock bottom with 2014's Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
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Mr. Ayers waited to make his move until he saw Ms. Grossan chatting with Joan LeMay, a friend from Seattle, where from 1997 to 2008, he ran Sonic Boom Records and was a drummer in indie rock bands like the Long Winters.
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Screenshot: Juan Alberto Pérez Pozo (YouTube)Last week, local media reports indicated that a meteorite hit the Cuban town of Viñales after soaring across the Florida Keys, with residents reporting hearing a massive sonic boom as well as seeing a trail in the sky.
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The X-59, which is being developed by Lockheed Martin on a $247 million budget, is meant to go significantly faster than sound without producing a sonic boom, or indeed any noise "louder than a car door closing," at least to observers on the ground.
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The NASA creation, officially called a Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD), can break the sound barrier without creating the deafening sonic boom of previous models, therefore making it a serious contender for use in commercial flights — something that hasn't happened since the Concorde was grounded in 2003.
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You can play as characters from Sonic's extended universe, hear the yammering from Sonic Boom over Sonic 2, whatever this Sonic the Hedgehog: Helen Keller Edition is, or say fuck it, let's play as Nintendo's Kirby in Sonic because I don't have time for society's rules.
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Disney set off a sonic boom in Hollywood by unveiling plans to start two Netflix-style services: For the first time in the streaming age, the world's largest media company had decided that embracing a new business model was more important than clinging to its existing one.
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This week Jason Pierce and Pete Kember (AKA Sonic Boom) of space-rock pioneers Spacemen 3 put out a joint statement on Spiritualized's Facebook page, pleading with fans not to buy the Spacemen 153 records that were being released on RSD due to them having no part in them.
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Click here to view original GIFImage Courtesy Dan McGheeThe National Weather Service says that the most likely explanation for an object which sent out illumination and a sonic boom throughout southwest Michigan, five other states, and Canada on Tuesday night was the breakup of a meteor, WXYZ reported.
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Sonic Boom In discussing the health problems that have afflicted U.S. officials in Cuba, Adam Entous and Jon Lee Anderson explain the theory that "the cause was a device that emitted radio frequencies or electromagnetic pulses" to create cavitation, or bubbling, in the inner ear ("Havana Syndrome," November 19th).
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LOS ANGELES — Disney set off a sonic boom in Hollywood by unveiling plans to start two Netflix-style services: For the first time in the streaming age, the world's largest media company had decided that embracing a new business model was more important than clinging to its existing one.
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Every so often a cheer would roll like a sonic boom over the National Mall, but by the time it reached the crowds wedged shoulder to shoulder on the periphery, far beyond the reach of the jumbotrons and loudspeakers, no one was entirely sure what they were cheering for.
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In February, NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin for a new supersonic plane, with the intention of beginning tests in 2020: the aircraft would be experimenting with Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST), which will reduce the sonic boom that makes these types of planes difficult to use around populated areas.
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They have David Ortiz, one of baseball's most daunting hitters even as he embarks on his farewell tour, and David Price, added in the offseason to spot his sonic-boom fastball and anchor a rotation that has lacked a true No. 1 since its last World Series win, in 2013.
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But you'll know there's more to it when your jaw smashes through the dark crust with a sonic boom; when the particular forms of heat contributed by habanero, black pepper, Sichuan peppercorn, Aleppo pepper, cayenne and Tabasco sauce all start to pile up and reverberate like My Bloody Valentine guitar chords; when the meat gives up juices that swirl with wood smoke.
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It said that the booms were heard in southern New Jersey, on Long Island and elsewhere on the Eastern Seaboard, and that one occurred at a spot over the Atlantic Ocean seven miles southeast of Atlantic City and nine miles east-southeast of Ventnor City, N.J. A sonic boom is a thunderous noise produced by the shock waves created by an aircraft when it flies faster than the speed of sound.
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It was windy and the sun was a tiny tealight, and there was, I would argue, a sort of disgusting clash between the thrill of watching a helicopter go upside down just for fun and the absolutely terrifying noise of a Super Hornet fighter plane going 675 miles per hour, stopping just short of breaking the sound barrier, and creating a sonic boom that could shatter half the windows in Wantagh.
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Shock 22: End of populism Shock 29: Oil price plunges to $210/bbl Shock 3: The big market quake Shock 4: Italian renaissance Shock 5: EM deflation Shock 6: CNY comeback Shock 7: Global growth takes off Shock 8: Deflating euro area Shock 93: Inflation sonic boom (Event risks) Euro zone crisis 2.0 Trade tensions end Brace for (climate) impact (Valuation risks) U.S. corporate margins fall EM reform surprises The ECB initiates new unconventional policies (Liquidity & volatility risks) Leverage risks and accounting tactics The Fed keeps hiking No bid in a credit sell-off Fixed income volatility comes back 1.
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Singles like 2 Chainz's "It's a Vibe" and Travis Scott's "Butterfly Effect," as well as a smattering of Drake album cuts and features, led to a sonic boom for Murda this year: "MotorSport" by Migos, featuring Cardi B and Nicki Minaj, was too big to fail, settling in the Top 10; Drake's "Nice for What," built around an undeniable Lauryn Hill sample, spent eight warm weeks at No. 1; and "Fefe," which brought together Minaj and 23ix9ine, the rap villain of the moment, peaked at No. 3 on its way to nearly half a billion YouTube views.
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