Your 6-hour flight from LA to New York is about to become a 3-hour flight. And it's legal because engineers figured out how to bend sound.

Since 1973 it's been a federal crime for any passenger plane to fly faster than the speed of sound over American soil. That's why your cross-country flight takes the same 6 hours it took your parents in the 80s. Planes got safer and more efficient. They never got faster. The law made faster illegal.

The original reason was real. In the 60s the government flew supersonic jets over Oklahoma City 8 times a day for 6 months to test public reaction. The booms cracked plaster, broke windows, and generated nearly 10,000 complaints. So the FAA banned the speed itself.

Here's what changed. The speed of sound isn't constant. It shifts with air temperature, which shifts with altitude. Fly high enough and fast enough in the right conditions and the shockwave physically bends, curving back up into the sky before it reaches the ground. The boom still happens. It just never lands.

NASA measured what people underneath actually hear: a faint rumble about as loud as normal street noise. No crack. No broken windows.

So the FAA's new rule flips the logic. Instead of banning the speed, it caps the sound allowed to hit the ground. Stay quiet and you can fly as fast as the plane will go. Boom already proved the tech works in a real test flight last year.

The last time you could fly supersonic, a Concorde ticket cost about $12,000 round trip and only crossed the ocean. The next version flies over land, over your house, and you'll never hear it coming.

https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2072652004242203091?s=20

These dead bedroom guys are PATHETIC

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IT'S OFFICIAL: US Attorney Jeanine Pirro announces a DC grand jury indicted former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, who was caught RIPPING the sealant in the reflecting pool, on FELONY DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY

FAFO. Hearn is facing 10 YEARS in prison

"Our evidence further shows that the National Park Service employees observed Hearn actually FORCEFULLY AND VlOLENTLY pulling up and removing the bottom liner with both hands," per Pirro

He allegedly ripped up 2 SQUARE FEET of sealant, before getting in the face and SCREAMING at a female NPS employee who confronted him.

"This was a delivered act to damage the reflecting tool at the National Mall that members of the National Park Service actually have worked hard to restore and have witnessed."

Again, this is NOT a unilateral action by the DOJ. A GRAND JURY brought the felony indictment.

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Meanwhile at a BART fare evasion gate in SF (to save $2.55)

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https://x.com/defense_civil25/status/2072447643939401800?s=52

Ominous

The Department of the Interior is about to deploy phone tracking tech aimed directly at America’s hikers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/the-department-of-the-interior-is-about-to-deploy-phone-tracking-tech-aimed-directly-at-america-s-hikers/ar-AA26CKsQ

⬆️⬆️⬆️ seems like there is more to this

Hi Pirate! This one is so odd I had to share. Bear spray…  15 victims? 🤔 Comms? IDK..

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/cobb-county-hotel-guests-attacked-with-bear-spray-during-argument-at-pool-police-say/

Bear/crawler comms?