Re: Speed of Mechanical Wave

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 11:40 PM 2/2/02, you wrote:
> Reminds me of the SciFi. story wherein the putative traitor instructed the
> aliens to invade Earth at Mach 1 in their machines, knowing that the ten +
> miles at an ~ constant speed of sound would be enuff to destroy them.
>
> bc who was an avid SciFi reader in HS  (early '50s)

The turncoat's motivation was not 'putative' from this direction:
though there was still a popular concern about the sound barrier at
the time. It's what we 'know' that hurts us!


Brian Whatcott
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