Hornet breaking the sound barrier

i-fa5b0a66f0ea6e6c3d8e66888e56d0bd-hornet-990707-N-6483G-001.jpg

Isn't it lovely (it isn't new. The pic is from 1999 and I've seen it before. But seeing it on someone's wiki page reminded me). Far better than a Green Hornet.

Or maybe you'd rather listen to the wabbit.

[Update: see various comments. The situation is more complex than I though, and possibly not fully understood. See-also cute pix here -W]

More like this

The battle of the graphs provides a learning opportunity says "American Elephants", and indeed it does, though possibly not in the way they're thinking. I haven't been able to clearly identify the source of this image (which is the reason for this post: I'll show you how far back I've managed to…
I'm going to intermittently keep track of the comments I make on other blogs. I'll spare you the totally trivial ones, but I don't guarantee this to be especially interesting. One point of doing this will be to track the ones that "disappear" on various sites (no names for now) that I've found don'…
I seem to have run out of variations on Architecture and morality and Weasels ripped my flesh so I thought I'd drop the obscurity for once and use a simple post title which actually described the subject, rather than through several levels of indirection1. The recent trigger to this was mt's The…
Time for some politics - it always provides cheap hits. I'll start with this cartoon, which I found on facebook, promoted by various of the Good. But, its rubbish; its Wrong Thinking. Its a response to the US mid-term elections - or at least, I think that's why its being reposted - and the message…

Oh. That kind of hornet. If it had been vespa crabro, it would have been a lot more sensational.

By Phillip IV (not verified) on 09 Jul 2010 #permalink

Such a picturesque way of delivering death and destruction.

"breaking the sound barrier". On a science blog, no less. Oy vey, the power of folk tales/physics is strong in this one society.

By Torbjörn Lars… (not verified) on 09 Jul 2010 #permalink

> If the associated volumes cannot quickly change,
> then the ideal gas law suggests that the temperature
> in the low pressure regions must drop

Well, that refutes the theory that the temperature of Venus is so high due to supersonic flights by its natives, anyhow.