What does a SONIC BOOM sound like?

[silverpig]

A whip crack is a sonic boom yes.

 

[Zwingle]

Ummmm....I think just about everyone has heard a sonic boom at one time or another....it is the noise you hear during a rain storm, ya'know the noise right after lightning.....it is called thunder.

The extreme heat of lightning causes the air to heat and expand at an explosive rate. The expansion creates a shock wave that turns into a booming sound wave, better known as thunder.

 

[trmiv]

I can hear the jets at Moffett all the way over here in Newark, CA (next to Fremont if you don't know ) The whole house was almost shaking earlier.

 

[ElFenix]

the coolest thing is what a sonic boom looks like. theres only one picture i think, it was published in maxim a while ago and also linked here. the air compresses so much the water is forced out so the plane flies through a large sphere of water droplets. really cool.

 

[konichiwa]

It's a NASA picture (POTD from 1998 I think)

 

[trmiv]

<< the coolest thing is what a sonic boom looks like. theres only one picture i think, it was published in maxim a while ago and also linked here. the air compresses so much the water is forced out so the plane flies through a large sphere of water droplets. really cool. >>



Check the second video lowtech posted, you can see that effect in action.

 

[Napta]

bam!

 

[joohang]

<< Ask Guile. >>


LOL

 

[Platypus]

Im glad someone got the joke.

 

[konichiwa]

I didn't