▲ 544 ▼ NASA mysteriously trying to pull world’s fastest plane, SR-71 Blackbird, out of retirement — and won’t say why (nypost.com) submitted 1 month ago by Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 308 comments fedilink hide all child comments 🚀 2 Seeing Blackbird fly again after all these years would be incredible. I'd love to know what NASA has planned for it.
[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child) Machine learning + fluid dynamics? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago Turbulence at the trans-sonic barrier is one of the most difficult and poorly understood problems in modeling even today - Heisenberg famously said he'd ask god two questions: why relativity, and why turbulence? - and as a result experimental results really are the best way of determining even the base parameters of the behavior of a system under those conditions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago Turbulence at the trans-sonic barrier is one of the most difficult and poorly understood problems in modeling even today - Heisenberg famously said he'd ask god two questions: why relativity, and why turbulence? - and as a result experimental results really are the best way of determining even the base parameters of the behavior of a system under those conditions. permalink fedilink source parent