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Would you mind linking the SR-71 story? Somehow I never saw that.

• teraflop 12y ago
  "The Ultimate Ground Speed Check": http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-1079127041 http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
  • carleverett 12y ago
    That was beautiful, thank you.
    • masklinn 12y ago
      An other neat one is "sand won't save you this time", from the delightful "Ignition!" via the Things I Won't Work With series (well worth reading in and of itself, even for non-chemists): http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_save_you_this_time.php http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2008/02/26/sand_wont_sa...
      • digi_owl 12y ago
        Gotta "love" something that is highly reactive to test engineers... The book also holds, iirc, a passage about a group of chemists sitting down for lunch when something on one of the shelves start getting uppity. They barely had time to dive under the table before the container started bouncing around the room.