meaning of sonic blast
Gene Wirchenko
>Murray Arnow wrote:
>>
>> [...] The reporter appears to
>> be inaccurately using terms--not good news.
>
>Eh? What's this? A reporter using words he doesn't understand? Next
>thing you know there will be hordes of sniggering niggardly thespians
>engaged in pedagogy and public acts of oral intercourse. Where will it
>all end?
Organism?
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Mark Brader
| Paso. El Paso Police report that an acre of scorched earth twenty-seven
| miles east of El Paso and twenty miles north of Hueco Tanks confirms
| speculation that a meteor, or its remains, just missed the Sun City.
| The sonic boom which followed the meteor's crash was heard as far away
| as Anthony, NM and felt in El Paso.
> You know, the more I read this passage, the worse it gets. Did
> the city police report there was an impact, or that the impact
> confirms the speculation about a meteor?
It's not *that* bad. The police reported that the existence of scorched
earth confirmed the speculation about a meteor. (It is a bit garden-pathish
in that "report" can be mistaken for a noun, if you don't notice that there's
no article at the start of the sentence (the "El" doesn't count!).)
> Is "the Sun City" a nickname for El Paso?
I presume so.
> Why in the world would he bother to say the crash was felt in El Paso,
> since he has already said the sound "rocked" the city?
The first sentence is about "sonic blasts", whatever they are; the second
is specifically about a sonic boom. But I agree that it's sloppily written.
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Simon R. Hughes
> Sankyun wrote:
> -----
> > 1.Shortly before 1:00 p.m.Thursday a series of sonic blasts rocked El Paso.
> > El Paso Police report that an acre of scorched earth twenty-seven miles east
> > of El Paso and twenty miles north of Hueco Tanks confirms speculation that a
> > meteor, or its remains, just missed the Sun City. The sonic boom which
> > followed the meteor's crash was heard as far away as Anthony, NM and felt in
> > El Paso.
> >
> > Does "blast" of sonic blast mean an explosion?
> >.....
>
> The writer chose the wrong words. Everybody identifies "sonic
> boom" (and probably "sonic blast") as the noise made by a jet
> flying faster than the speed of sound. These sentences are
> confusing at first sight because the reader is trying to fit jets
> into them.
>
> What he meant was "a very loud, explosive sound," but perhaps he
> found this too undramatic. He is saying merely that a series of
> very loud noises shook El Paso, evidently the result of a meteor
> coming down near the city.
>
> You know, the more I read this passage, the worse it gets. Did
> the city police report there was an impact, or that the impact
> nickname for El Paso? Why in the world would he bother to say the
> crash was felt in El Paso, since he has already said the sound
> "rocked" the city?
I think it is fiction. I think most of the rest of us know that it
hasn't really happened. You can go and unpack now.
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Simon R. Hughes
> Hi,
>
> 1.Shortly before 1:00 p.m.Thursday a series of sonic blasts rocked El Paso.
> El Paso Police report that an acre of scorched earth twenty-seven miles east
> of El Paso and twenty miles north of Hueco Tanks confirms speculation that a
> meteor, or its remains, just missed the Sun City. The sonic boom which
> followed the meteor's crash was heard as far away as Anthony, NM and felt in
> El Paso.
>
> How does "sonic blast" differ from sonic boom?
> Does "blast" of sonic blast mean an explosion?
I would say that a sonic blast is an explosive blast carried by sound
waves. The kind of thing that knocked all the trees down in a 15km
radius of Mount St. Helens in 1980. The kind of destructive blast that
appears as an expanding circle emanating from the explosion in the
footage of atomic blasts.
That's a guess, perhaps there is a different answer.
A sonic boom is a sound caused by an object travelling faster than the
speed of sound.
> 2. What is "Plantation shutters"like? I came across the words such as
> "Plantation shutters, traditional shutters."
> The style of shutters which is widely used in the colonial era?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Sankyun.
Robert Lieblich
>
> Thus Spake N.Mitchum:
[ . . . ]
> > You know, the more I read this passage, the worse it gets. Did
> > the city police report there was an impact, or that the impact
> > confirms the speculation about a meteor? Is "the Sun City" a
> > nickname for El Paso? Why in the world would he bother to say the
> > crash was felt in El Paso, since he has already said the sound
> > "rocked" the city?
>
> I think it is fiction. I think most of the rest of us know that it
> hasn't really happened. You can go and unpack now.
But first, has anyone checked to see if El Paso is still there? You
can't be too careful these days.
Sankyun
I came across the articles like below on the internet.
Sonic Blast From Meteor Rocks El Paso
El Paso (KVIA)
Shortly before 1:00 p.m.Thursday a series of sonic blasts rocked El Paso.
El Paso Police report that an acre of scorched earth twenty-seven miles east
of El Paso and twenty miles north of Hueco Tanks confirms speculation that a
meteor, or its remains, just missed the Sun City. The sonic boom which
followed the meteor's crash was heard as far away as Anthony, NM and felt in
El Paso.
One El Paso resident was startled to see what she described as "a streak of
light, similar to a falling star, that ended in a ball of yellow and orange
light and a brilliant explosion." Dr. Harold Slusher, Professor of Physics
at the University of Texas at El Paso, said that description and a video
recording of smoke that trailed off after the explosion were consistent with
the destruction of a meteor: "I'd say off-hand...that it's the explosion of
a daytime meteor or a swarm of meteoric objects, small objects made of rock
and metal, that penetrate the atmosphere. They'd survive through the
atmosphere and sometimes explode...[trailing] debris and what appears to be
smoke like what you saw in the film you showed me."
According to Dr. Slusher, such highly visible traces of daytime meteoric
activity are extremely rare. The glare of the sun usually blocks any
evidence of a streak of debris trailing in the wake of meteoric collisions.
Lorie Hernandez was outside on the porch of her home in Socorro when an
explosion overhead caused her to grab for a video camera. "It was like a
flash and after maybe a minute..my cousin said, 'Look! Look up in the
sky!'...That's when it popped. We heard a big 'pop.' It lasted for like a
minute. The big pop lasted a long time, and then after that...all the smoke
started coming out. That's when the little pops like firecrackers started to
sound. That's when everyone was screaming and everyone was more scared...we
expected something to fall out [of the cloud of smoke] like an airplane or
something."
Frances McRimmon rushed out to record the event on video immediately after
the blast shook her East El Paso home. McRimmon says she saw what looked
like a military helicopter hovering over the site of the explosion. News 7
cameras also recorded several aircrafts flying through the remaining plumes
of smoke shortly after impact.
More information will surely follow from this extraordinary opportunity for
the study of meteoric activity.
Reported by Barry Carpenter and Elizabeth O'Hara
2. The below is another article.
On Thursday, October 9, 1997, at around 12:50 pm, a series of sonic booms
were heard and a fireball was seen by many people in El Paso,Texas and
surrounding areas. Many scientist believe a meteorite fell through the sky
over west Texas and southern New Mexico. The above figure is what you heard,
as recorded at the Kidd Seismic Observatory on a broadband digital
seismometer. It is a seismic recording of the sonic boom from the meteor.
The top trace shows vertical displacement, the middle trace show north-south
horizontal displacement, and the bottom trace shows east-west horizontal
displacement. The horizontal axis is time (seconds), the vertical axis is
amplitude. The record start at 18:49:08 GMT (01:49:08 pm local time). The
sonic boom starts about 23 seconds into the display.
Sankyun
article where I got the excerpt about sonic boom.
And May I ask something? Can "Plantaion Shutters" could be replace by
"Plantation style shutters"?? Now, thanks to you, I know what 'plantation
shutters' are like, but I'd like to know the literal meaning of it. If you
say "Plantation shutters", does it mean "shutters which were popular in
colony era"?
Best regards,
Sankyun.
khann
>
> khann <khann....@this.address.ca> wrote:
>
> >Murray Arnow wrote:
> >>
> >> [...] The reporter appears to
> >> be inaccurately using terms--not good news.
> >
> >Eh? What's this? A reporter using words he doesn't understand? Next
> >thing you know there will be hordes of sniggering niggardly thespians
> >engaged in pedagogy and public acts of oral intercourse. Where will it
> >all end?
>
> Organism?
>
Ejaculating seminal ideas.
KHann
Gene Wirchenko
John Cartmell
That wasn't an earthquake.
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--
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Simon R. Hughes
> Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote:
>
> >"Simon R. Hughes" wrote:
> >>
> >> Thus Spake N.Mitchum:
> >
> >[ . . . ]
> >
> >> > You know, the more I read this passage, the worse it gets. Did
> >> > the city police report there was an impact, or that the impact
> >> > confirms the speculation about a meteor? Is "the Sun City" a
> >> > nickname for El Paso? Why in the world would he bother to say the
> >> > crash was felt in El Paso, since he has already said the sound
> >> > "rocked" the city?
> >>
> >> I think it is fiction. I think most of the rest of us know that it
> >> hasn't really happened. You can go and unpack now.
> >
> >But first, has anyone checked to see if El Paso is still there? You
> >can't be too careful these days.
>
> Were you thinking of the Seattle earthquake?
There's an El Paso in Washington?
N.Mitchum
-----
> And May I ask something? Can "Plantaion Shutters" could be replace by
> "Plantation style shutters"?? Now, thanks to you, I know what 'plantation
> shutters' are like, but I'd like to know the literal meaning of it. If you
> say "Plantation shutters", does it mean "shutters which were popular in
> colony era"?
I don't know. My earlier reply hinted I was only guessing when I
identified these shutters as jalousies. That is to say, I don't
know the literal meaning. I based my deduction on the two words
you gave, and came up with "shutters you might find on a
plantation building." Adding "style" to this combination is not
helpful; at some point, extra words only obscure your meaning.
I do not associate plantations with the colonial period, which
came before the Revolution. Plantations in my mind were
19th-century estates, confined to the South
----NM
Robert Lieblich
>
> Robert Lieblich <lieb...@erols.com> wrote:
>
> >"Simon R. Hughes" wrote:
> >>
> >> Thus Spake N.Mitchum:
> >
> >[ . . . ]
> >
> >> > You know, the more I read this passage, the worse it gets. Did
> >> > the city police report there was an impact, or that the impact
> >> > confirms the speculation about a meteor? Is "the Sun City" a
> >> > nickname for El Paso? Why in the world would he bother to say the
> >> > crash was felt in El Paso, since he has already said the sound
> >> > "rocked" the city?
> >>
> >> I think it is fiction. I think most of the rest of us know that it
> >> hasn't really happened. You can go and unpack now.
> >
> >But first, has anyone checked to see if El Paso is still there? You
> >can't be too careful these days.
>
> Were you thinking of the Seattle earthquake?
It's obvious that the aliens have allied with the government and are
attacking on multiple fronts.
Black helicopters -- coming soon to your neighborhood.