[ale] HELP!!! /HDA DISASTER!

Tue Jan 29 09:23:10 EST 2002

Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
> Let's see.  3.14 * 3.5 = 10.99 inches of travel per rotation
> 10.99 * 72000 = 791280 inches per minute
> There are 5280 * 12 = 63360 inches per mile, that give us
> 791280 / 63360 = 12.48 miles per minute
> 12.48 * 60 = 749 miles per hour.
> 
> What's the speed of sound?  That's thing is dangerously close to mach
> 1.

It's well over.  Mach 1 is about 660 mph at sea level, IIRC.

At least it will drown out the CPU fan.....

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