In
<f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541715fbf...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com>,
on 08/05/2011
at 07:46 AM, "Chase, John" <[email protected]> said:
>Allegedly, a prime consideration for Boeing's scuttling of its
>Supersonic Transport (SST) project back in the 1960s was a
>conclusion by some "pseudo-scientists" that sonic booms cause
>cancer.
I've never seen such a claim. What the media reported was that it was
cancelled because the sonic boom caused noise above the legal
threshold. What was egregious was that they allowed the discorde to
violate those standards.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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