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  1. I just survived a 43‑minute VR near‑death plunge in the ruins of Magus, and the 3‑minute shockwave still haunts me.
    youtube.com/watch?v=UxiJvZkHXEg
    #VR #Gaming #YouTube

    #YouTube #minute #shockwave #survived #gaming

  2. I just survived a 43‑minute VR near‑death plunge in the ruins of Magus, and the 3‑minute shockwave still haunts me.
    youtube.com/watch?v=UxiJvZkHXEg
    #VR #Gaming #YouTube

    #YouTube #minute #shockwave #survived #gaming

  3. I just survived a 43‑minute VR near‑death plunge in the ruins of Magus, and the 3‑minute shockwave still haunts me.
    youtube.com/watch?v=UxiJvZkHXEg
    #VR #Gaming #YouTube

    #YouTube #minute #shockwave #survived #gaming

  4. I just survived a 43‑minute VR near‑death plunge in the ruins of Magus, and the 3‑minute shockwave still haunts me.
    youtube.com/watch?v=UxiJvZkHXEg
    #VR #Gaming #YouTube

    #YouTube #minute #shockwave #survived #gaming

  5. I just survived a 43‑minute VR near‑death plunge in the ruins of Magus, and the 3‑minute shockwave still haunts me.
    youtube.com/watch?v=UxiJvZkHXEg
    #VR #Gaming #YouTube

    #YouTube #minute #shockwave #survived #gaming

  6. Making Quieter Shock Waves

    NASA’s X-59 aircraft is intended to demonstrate supersonic flight without the boom. Although it’s broken into supersonic speeds, we haven’t yet heard its “sonic thump” because, so far, it’s been accompanied by conventional supersonic aircraft, which are louder.

    The idea behind the long, skinny X-59 is to create weaker, widely-spaced shocks along the aircraft body. Weaker shocks are easier for atmospheric effects to damp out before they reach the ground, and spacing them out makes it harder for them to “pile up” at the nose and tail to create the strong double shocks that merge into a sonic boom.

    Schlieren image of a model X-59 tested at supersonic conditions in a wind tunnel. The model is mounted upside-down. The three dark diagonal lines are shock waves originating from the wind tunnel and can be ignored. The fainter lines coming off parts of the aircraft model are the plane’s shock waves.

    NASA is preparing to test the X-59’s in-flight shocks soon, including with in-air schlieren photography like they’ve done in the past for other aircraft. But we’ve already have a glimpse of what to expect, thanks to wind tunnel testing, shown above. Ignore the three dark diagonal lines in the middle of the image (those are from the wind tunnel, not the model aircraft), and focus instead on the thin bright lines coming off the plane. Those are some impressively subtle shock waves!

    Hear more from the aircraft’s designer and test pilots in this Ars Technica article. (Image credit: NASA; see also: Ars Technica, M. Ahaus et al.)

    #fluidDynamics #physics #schlierenPhotography #science #shockwave #supersonic #supersonicFlight #supersonicWindTunnel #windTunnelTesting
  7. Making Quieter Shock Waves

    NASA’s X-59 aircraft is intended to demonstrate supersonic flight without the boom. Although it’s broken into supersonic speeds, we haven’t yet heard its “sonic thump” because, so far, it’s been accompanied by conventional supersonic aircraft, which are louder.

    The idea behind the long, skinny X-59 is to create weaker, widely-spaced shocks along the aircraft body. Weaker shocks are easier for atmospheric effects to damp out before they reach the ground, and spacing them out makes it harder for them to “pile up” at the nose and tail to create the strong double shocks that merge into a sonic boom.

    Schlieren image of a model X-59 tested at supersonic conditions in a wind tunnel. The model is mounted upside-down. The three dark diagonal lines are shock waves originating from the wind tunnel and can be ignored. The fainter lines coming off parts of the aircraft model are the plane’s shock waves.

    NASA is preparing to test the X-59’s in-flight shocks soon, including with in-air schlieren photography like they’ve done in the past for other aircraft. But we’ve already have a glimpse of what to expect, thanks to wind tunnel testing, shown above. Ignore the three dark diagonal lines in the middle of the image (those are from the wind tunnel, not the model aircraft), and focus instead on the thin bright lines coming off the plane. Those are some impressively subtle shock waves!

    Hear more from the aircraft’s designer and test pilots in this Ars Technica article. (Image credit: NASA; see also: Ars Technica, M. Ahaus et al.)

    #fluidDynamics #physics #schlierenPhotography #science #shockwave #supersonic #supersonicFlight #supersonicWindTunnel #windTunnelTesting
  8. Making Quieter Shock Waves

    NASA’s X-59 aircraft is intended to demonstrate supersonic flight without the boom. Although it’s broken into supersonic speeds, we haven’t yet heard its “sonic thump” because, so far, it’s been accompanied by conventional supersonic aircraft, which are louder.

    The idea behind the long, skinny X-59 is to create weaker, widely-spaced shocks along the aircraft body. Weaker shocks are easier for atmospheric effects to damp out before they reach the ground, and spacing them out makes it harder for them to “pile up” at the nose and tail to create the strong double shocks that merge into a sonic boom.

    Schlieren image of a model X-59 tested at supersonic conditions in a wind tunnel. The model is mounted upside-down. The three dark diagonal lines are shock waves originating from the wind tunnel and can be ignored. The fainter lines coming off parts of the aircraft model are the plane’s shock waves.

    NASA is preparing to test the X-59’s in-flight shocks soon, including with in-air schlieren photography like they’ve done in the past for other aircraft. But we’ve already have a glimpse of what to expect, thanks to wind tunnel testing, shown above. Ignore the three dark diagonal lines in the middle of the image (those are from the wind tunnel, not the model aircraft), and focus instead on the thin bright lines coming off the plane. Those are some impressively subtle shock waves!

    Hear more from the aircraft’s designer and test pilots in this Ars Technica article. (Image credit: NASA; see also: Ars Technica, M. Ahaus et al.)

    #fluidDynamics #physics #schlierenPhotography #science #shockwave #supersonic #supersonicFlight #supersonicWindTunnel #windTunnelTesting
  9. Making Quieter Shock Waves

    NASA’s X-59 aircraft is intended to demonstrate supersonic flight without the boom. Although it’s broken into supersonic speeds, we haven’t yet heard its “sonic thump” because, so far, it’s been accompanied by conventional supersonic aircraft, which are louder.

    The idea behind the long, skinny X-59 is to create weaker, widely-spaced shocks along the aircraft body. Weaker shocks are easier for atmospheric effects to damp out before they reach the ground, and spacing them out makes it harder for them to “pile up” at the nose and tail to create the strong double shocks that merge into a sonic boom.

    Schlieren image of a model X-59 tested at supersonic conditions in a wind tunnel. The model is mounted upside-down. The three dark diagonal lines are shock waves originating from the wind tunnel and can be ignored. The fainter lines coming off parts of the aircraft model are the plane’s shock waves.

    NASA is preparing to test the X-59’s in-flight shocks soon, including with in-air schlieren photography like they’ve done in the past for other aircraft. But we’ve already have a glimpse of what to expect, thanks to wind tunnel testing, shown above. Ignore the three dark diagonal lines in the middle of the image (those are from the wind tunnel, not the model aircraft), and focus instead on the thin bright lines coming off the plane. Those are some impressively subtle shock waves!

    Hear more from the aircraft’s designer and test pilots in this Ars Technica article. (Image credit: NASA; see also: Ars Technica, M. Ahaus et al.)

    #fluidDynamics #physics #schlierenPhotography #science #shockwave #supersonic #supersonicFlight #supersonicWindTunnel #windTunnelTesting
  10. Making Quieter Shock Waves

    NASA’s X-59 aircraft is intended to demonstrate supersonic flight without the boom. Although it’s broken into supersonic speeds, we haven’t yet heard its “sonic thump” because, so far, it’s been accompanied by conventional supersonic aircraft, which are louder.

    The idea behind the long, skinny X-59 is to create weaker, widely-spaced shocks along the aircraft body. Weaker shocks are easier for atmospheric effects to damp out before they reach the ground, and spacing them out makes it harder for them to “pile up” at the nose and tail to create the strong double shocks that merge into a sonic boom.

    Schlieren image of a model X-59 tested at supersonic conditions in a wind tunnel. The model is mounted upside-down. The three dark diagonal lines are shock waves originating from the wind tunnel and can be ignored. The fainter lines coming off parts of the aircraft model are the plane’s shock waves.

    NASA is preparing to test the X-59’s in-flight shocks soon, including with in-air schlieren photography like they’ve done in the past for other aircraft. But we’ve already have a glimpse of what to expect, thanks to wind tunnel testing, shown above. Ignore the three dark diagonal lines in the middle of the image (those are from the wind tunnel, not the model aircraft), and focus instead on the thin bright lines coming off the plane. Those are some impressively subtle shock waves!

    Hear more from the aircraft’s designer and test pilots in this Ars Technica article. (Image credit: NASA; see also: Ars Technica, M. Ahaus et al.)

    #fluidDynamics #physics #schlierenPhotography #science #shockwave #supersonic #supersonicFlight #supersonicWindTunnel #windTunnelTesting
  11. Astronomers Catch the Glowing Shockwave of a Galaxy on the Move
    atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug
    <p>Astronomers have discovered a galaxy so unlike anything in the textbooks that the researcher who found it
    #astronomers #discovered #shockwave #glowing

  12. APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant

    APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #Science #shockwave #supernovaremnant #Vela
    newsbeep.com/au/709772/

  13. APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant

    APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
    #NewsBeep #News #Space #AU #Australia #Science #shockwave #supernovaremnant #Vela
    newsbeep.com/au/709772/

  14. APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant

    APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #Science #shockwave #supernovaremnant #VELA
    newsbeep.com/us/679244/

  15. APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant

    APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #Science #shockwave #supernovaremnant #VELA
    newsbeep.com/us/679244/

  16. APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant

    APOD: 2026 June 2 – The Vela Supernova Remnant Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Space #Science #shockwave #supernovaremnant #VELA
    newsbeep.com/us/679244/

  17. Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight

    Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo

    In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)

    #aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59
  18. Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight

    Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo

    In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)

    #aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59
  19. Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight

    Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo

    In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)

    #aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59
  20. Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight

    Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo

    In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)

    #aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59
  21. Seeking Quieter Supersonic Flight

    Supersonic flight over the U.S. has been banned by all non-military aircraft for more than fifty years. The ban gained momentum in the 1960s after test programs over St. Louis and Oklahoma provoked public outcry. But NASA’s X-59 aircraft is working to lift the ban by softening the sonic booms that encouraged the ban in the first place. Although it hasn’t been tested at supersonic speeds yet, pilots are putting the sharp and skinny X-59 through its paces, slowly widening the flight envelope.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4Xuslczoo

    In the video above, NASA shares footage of some of the recent test flights, including various maneuvers like phugoids, banking rolls, flutter, and landing gear tests. Pay close attention to the pilot’s view and the radio chatter, and you’ll hear that they’re hovering around Mach 0.98 in some cases–just underneath the point of generating a shock wave around the aircraft. It will be neat to see what happens when they finally do go supersonic. Will it be as quiet as promised? (Video credit: NASA; image credit: NASA/L. Losey; see also NASA; via Gizmodo)

    #aircraft #flightTest #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #sonicBoom #supersonic #supersonicFlight #X59
  22. The Great Lakes Are Wasting a Massive Source of Clean Energy

    KEY POINTS: Reusing waste heat could help the Great Lakes reduce climate change emissions from heating and cooling…
    #Energy #datacenter #shockwave
    europesays.com/2857180/

  23. Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

    If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

    The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

    The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

    #CFD #computationalFluidDynamics #fluidDynamics #instability #KelvinHelmholtzInstability #magnetohydrodynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #plasma #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave
  24. Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

    If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

    The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

    The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

    #CFD #computationalFluidDynamics #fluidDynamics #instability #KelvinHelmholtzInstability #magnetohydrodynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #plasma #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave
  25. Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

    If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

    The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

    The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

    #CFD #computationalFluidDynamics #fluidDynamics #instability #KelvinHelmholtzInstability #magnetohydrodynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #plasma #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave
  26. Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

    If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

    The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

    The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

    #CFD #computationalFluidDynamics #fluidDynamics #instability #KelvinHelmholtzInstability #magnetohydrodynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #plasma #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave
  27. Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability

    If you send a shock wave through a magnetized plasma–something that happens in both supernova explosions and inertial confinement fusion–it can trigger an instability known as the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability. The image above shows a form of this, taken from a simulation. Rather than treating the plasma as a single idealized fluid, the researchers represented it as two fluids: an ion fluid and an electron fluid. This allowed them to better capture what happens when certain components of the plasma react to changes faster than others do.

    The image itself shows the electron number density across the fluid, where darker colors represent higher electron number density. The interface between high and low-densities shows a roll-up instability that resembles the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, but there are also regions of mushroom-like plumes that more closely resemble Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities.

    The authors note that these structures don’t appear in simulations that represent a plasma as a single fluid; you need the two-fluid representation to see them. (Image and research credit: O. Thompson et al.)

    #CFD #computationalFluidDynamics #fluidDynamics #instability #KelvinHelmholtzInstability #magnetohydrodynamics #numericalSimulation #physics #plasma #RayleighTaylorInstability #RichtmyerMeshkovInstability #science #shockwave
  28. The energy boom is coming for Great Lakes water. Is Michigan ready?

    The Great Lakes region’s energy demand is rising for the first time in decades amid growth in data…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #GreatLakes #GreatLakesNewsCollaborative #Science #shockwave
    newsbeep.com/us/464896/

  29. CW: New Transformers Toy Fair Reveal

    GOD FUCKING DAMN IT HASBRO

    YOU CAN'T JUST TURN ALL YOUR SPACE GUNS UPSIDE-DOWN AND PRETEND THEY'RE SUBMARINES

    #transformers #ToyFair2026 #shockwave

  30. CW: New Transformers Toy Fair Reveal

    GOD FUCKING DAMN IT HASBRO

    YOU CAN'T JUST TURN ALL YOUR SPACE GUNS UPSIDE-DOWN AND PRETEND THEY'RE SUBMARINES

    #transformers #ToyFair2026 #shockwave

  31. CW: New Transformers Toy Fair Reveal

    GOD FUCKING DAMN IT HASBRO

    YOU CAN'T JUST TURN ALL YOUR SPACE GUNS UPSIDE-DOWN AND PRETEND THEY'RE SUBMARINES

    #transformers #ToyFair2026 #shockwave

  32. CW: New Transformers Toy Fair Reveal

    GOD FUCKING DAMN IT HASBRO

    YOU CAN'T JUST TURN ALL YOUR SPACE GUNS UPSIDE-DOWN AND PRETEND THEY'RE SUBMARINES

    #transformers #ToyFair2026 #shockwave

  33. CW: New Transformers Toy Fair Reveal

    GOD FUCKING DAMN IT HASBRO

    YOU CAN'T JUST TURN ALL YOUR SPACE GUNS UPSIDE-DOWN AND PRETEND THEY'RE SUBMARINES

    #transformers #ToyFair2026 #shockwave