Sentences with phrase «creating supersonic»

In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book about aliens destroying earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.

Engineers have banded together to create a supersonic car that's built to travel faster than a bullet from a handgun.

«In this way we can create a supersonic plasma flow.»

«By dropping a stone into the water, you create a supersonic jet.»

On top of plans to dig tunnels, create supersonic travel pods, colonize Mars, and load his own Tesla Roadster into the world's most powerful rocket, it seems Elon Musk is getting into the flamethrower game.

Not exact matches

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.

NASA awards $ 247.5 million cost - plus contract to Lockheed Martin to design and build a supersonic aircraft that does not create a traditional sonic boom.

Simply put, profits are generated via supersonic buying and selling controlled by computers that take advantage of short - term opportunities created by the fragmented markets, not to mention the orders placed by slower and long - term players.

Hyperloop One, a three - year - old, L.A. - based company working to create near - supersonic trains that can whisk both passengers and cargo in giant pneumatic tubes at speeds of many hundreds of miles per h

When an object such as a pebble drops into water, an air - filled cavity is created which ejects air at supersonic speeds, discovered Stephan Gekle at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, and colleagues.

Even at takeoff, the fuel exhaust shoots out the back at supersonic speeds, and when it hits the surrounding air, it creates shock waves that make a fearsome racket.

As a drop strikes a surface, liquid begins to spread sideways at supersonic speed, creating a shockwave.

But the boom created when the aircraft breaks the sound barrier is so loud that it can shatter windows and dislodge roof tiles, so supersonic flights are banned or restricted in many areas.

Now, Knipp and her team have determined that when such powerful CMEs come off the sun and speed toward Earth, they create shock waves much like supersonic aircraft create sonic booms.

When some swift, massive stars — moving at speeds faster than 50,000 miles an hour — plow through space, they can cause material to stack up in front of them in the same way that water piles up ahead of a ship or a supersonic plane creates a shockwave in front of it.

Moreover, Mira's course has been taking it through a relatively dense zone of interstellar space, and its interaction with molecules of gas and dust creates a bow - shock effect, similar to what happens when a bullet or a supersonic aircraft travels through air.

But there's been a great deal of research (dramatic NASA video here) into improving the aerodynamics of a supersonic craft and carefully designing every contour to control the inevitable pressure waves it creates.

NASA and Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works are teaming up to create the Low - Boom Flight Demonstrator, an experimental aircraft that aims to usher in the era of commercial supersonic flight.