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Doesnt matter. Sonic booms have virtually no real power. All the tales of them breaking windows and starting avalanches are pure myth. (See the anti-concorde media campaign.) Forest fires release atomic bomb-levers of energy. A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.


Here’s the Brazilian Supreme Court windows breaking from a sonic boom.

https://youtu.be/43Kl7c2yU3g


Yes. One or two breakings here and there when all the conditions are perfect. Look at the mythbusters tests with the usaf. They came to nothing. Ive sat under many an f18 doing a mach1+ flyby (rcaf). Car stereos create more power, and worldwide probably break more glass.


Upon looking at that video again, I have to wonder if the building design and construction didn't play into that as well, with the very overhang taking energy reflected off the ground and directing it back down towards the windows.


I remember sonic booms in the 1960's in the midwest. They weren't worthy of note.


>A slight puff from a tiny f-15 is a butterfly compared to the winds generated by the fire itself.

May be all that's required [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect


You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.


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Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?


https://www.definitions.net/definition/unsubstantive

Not sure what you mean. My post appears to be entirely appropriate to the comment it replied to.

Do you know what they were referring to? Unfortunately, this comment thread appears to be censored on this platform, so I'm unsure I'll ever receive an answer.


I agree that the post you were replying to makes no sense as a reply to your previous comment. I'm guessing that that author meant to reply to the poster saying that sonic booms were mythical, and did not mean to reply to your post.

Your comment, "wut", although it would be totally appropriate in a conversation between two people, is just more noise when read by the thousands of people who read through the comments. When people make irrelevant short replies, it's usually best to ignore them and let other other people downvote them.




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