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> It REQUIRES intake air to be at high supersonic speeds for it to work This is why I am highly sceptical it can be part of a commercial supersonic passenger jet: how do you get fr…

> (not that we have ever made them commercially viable) Concorde was commercially viable at Mach 2.2 in supercruise (although there's a common misconception that it was not). Howev…

I believe Virginia Woolf wrote, "I write only for my own pleasure. I write to give myself pleasure." Which pretty much encapsulates this.

I wrote a poem inspired by these images when I was 17 (over a decade ago!) which won second prize in a national competition. Seeing them again here takes me back.

IIRC Rich Hickey says something similar to the "pipeline-oriented programming" piece in his talk about systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROor6_NGIWU&pp=ygUccmljaCBoa...