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QWERTYroch t1_itiytvb wrote

Reply to comment by peter-doubt in NASA poised to break sound barrier without the sonic boom by Ssider69

To be really pedantic, that sentence isn't technically wrong. It was the first time it was broken "over the high desert of California", even if not the first time on Earth.

Obviously the context implies that it was the first ever, but in a vacuum each of their claims could be rationalized.

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tom-8-to t1_itk16qs wrote

Actually the OG is the pistol shrimp he’s been exploiting supersonic weapons since forever

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