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Re: Speed of the shock wave?

Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:

both being transmitted via ground and air
with only a fraction of a second delaw to the hiker
..... at a distance of only a mile, the B OOM
from the explosion only takes about 0.2 second to reach the hiker.


Really? Where's that coming from?

That looks suspiciously like a prediction based on
c = 5 miles per second (??!!!)
The actual value in air is closer to
c = 1 mile per 5 seconds.

This posting is the position of the writer, not that of Donald, Daffy,
or Howard.

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