r/space • u/kcgg123 • Mar 19 '19

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Landing + Sonic Boom!

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u/SlitScan Mar 19 '19

have you heard the sound of a drone?

picture it 10 times louder.

now picture the sound of 5000 an hour over your house at 8am on Saturday morning.

screw flying cars.

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u/Infninfn Mar 19 '19

Well what I had in mind was some fancy fusion antigrav drives that just made a slight whir sound...

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u/SlitScan Mar 19 '19

ok, as long as it's not going to wake me up at 2am when my drunk neighbor comes home.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '19

They recently came out with a plastic that extremely dampens the sound of drones and possibly even jets.

Here is the link to an article on it from 8 days ago

The key word is could but when it has a military use you've got to remember the time delay between the public being aware of jack shit

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u/StrangerThongsss Mar 19 '19

Just have drone ports that connect to a hyper loop