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Shiver Me Timbers!
updated: Aug 15, 2012, 10:04 PM
By Edhat Subscriber
Big B O O M near Gaviota about 6:20pm. Rattled the house pretty good.
'Quake Center says a 2.6 near San Juan Bautista about that time(near
Salinas) Anyne else feel/hear this?
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COMMENT 308854P
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2012-08-15 10:14 PM |
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Anyone check to see if Diablo Canyon is still a canyon? It was probably a flight test, I think they were supposed to test some hypersonic vehicle soon, maybe that was it.
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COMMENT 308855
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2012-08-15 10:29 PM |
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Couldn't have been the Waverider, it crashed. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/08/15/158881750/reports-hypersonic-waverider-failed
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COMMENT 308867
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2012-08-16 07:22 AM |
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A 2.6 near San Juan Bautista? That's 220 miles away. The only people who felt that were the ones standing on the fault.
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COMMENT 308877
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2012-08-16 07:45 AM |
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@SY, the Waverider was supposed to crash when it was done, it just didn't get going as fast as they wanted - it went Mach 5 for (in?) 140 seconds instead of Mach 6 for 300 seconds.
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COMMENT 308881
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2012-08-16 07:58 AM |
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854P for the win! LOL! Maybe the quake was just the right frequency/vector or something for the sound waves to reach your position? I've often heard quakes have almost a roar or rumbling, though, and not a boom, but that was a quake I was near the epicenter of and rode for several seconds. Anyone else have any ideas? Someone hear any military aircraft fly by?
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COMMENT 308917
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2012-08-16 09:02 AM |
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Re: 877 Please get your facts straight. The most recent test of the x-51A WaveRider was a failure. The test you are referring to (flying 140 seconds reaching Mach 5) occurred in May 2010. "In the latest exercise, the drone craft flew for only 16 seconds before going out of control and crashing into the ocean."
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COMMENT 308924
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2012-08-16 09:18 AM |
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917 is right. This Waverider failed before the main thruster engines ever lit off.
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COMMENT 308930
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2012-08-16 09:32 AM |
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Whoops, 917 you're completely correct! Everyone ignore me, nothing to see here, move along...
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SMILODON
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2012-08-16 10:19 AM |
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Well, I definitely heard/felt the boom at 6:22 pm. But my first reaction was that it was a hypersonic boom, and a long ways way, like over the ocean. It came from the southwest of here (Noleta). So, at what time was the X-51a supposed to have launched and failed? But if it never went hypersonic, then there would be no boom. It did NOT feel like an earthquake, and I have lived through lots of those. I can even pretty much judge a Richter number during a quake. This boom was out of the atmosphere.
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COMMENT 308984P
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2012-08-16 11:02 AM |
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Boom-boom on Westside about 9:40 this morning. Related?
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COMMENT 309205
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2012-08-16 04:06 PM |
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SMILODON - That X51-A crashed yesterday morning, waaaaay before you heard your little boom boom.
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COMMENT 309266
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2012-08-16 07:12 PM |
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Mystery deepens.
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COMMENT 309290
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2012-08-16 08:56 PM |
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Could've been "ordinary" military jets going hyper but more likely distant thunder, as there were buildups behind the mountain all week.
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