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I almost had that experience on a medic van parked on the drop zone. I had to pull my knees into my chest as I slid across the roof.
I had an LT land on an FLA, back when it was a M151, with a canvas and wood frame canopy. Crash. He missed mine but hit the next one. There was an NCO on the ground screaming at him to slip away, but he froze, staring at his upcoming ing doom. Broken femur, broken left arm. Plus extricating him from the tangled mess. Ft Campbell, KY, 1966.
 

It barely got past 360k feet and didn’t achieve escape velocity. Big difference between a ballistic flight and an orbital flight. All these bimbos did was get above the magic “astronaut line” at 50 miles on a ballistic flight, you get a brief period of weightlessness on the parabola….

Not sure their capsule would “get” scorched on re-entry because it barely left the atmosphere and was going WAT too slow for friction to scorch it.

IIRC you have to hit 50 miles or just over 80 km to get astronaut wings. That is far below the 17,500 mph that is needed to achieve escape velocity/orbital trajectory. According to the Interwebz… blue origin was going just 2,000 miles per hour.. or Mach 2.6.

Concord goes at mach 2+ and never scorched the paint… and it was 1960’s technology.

Mach 2.5 doesn’t scorch things like an orbital reentry from 17,500 mph+.

I still think the whole thing is BS… but not because of scorch marks.

Besides, these are women. They should know how to use a hot iron without leaving scorch marks….

Sirhr

To add one more perspective… the German V2 rocket flew the same height. Carried an explosive payload of 1600 lbs (not counting the nose cone itself. And was done with 1940’s technology. This was a publicity stunt. And I would not put it past them to fake it all. But they didn’t have to… except to protect the lives of 5 bimbos. This was backyard garbage…. Not even close to what SpaceX is achieving!!!
 
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250 years ago today. It's estimated that only 3% of the population was fighting the British during the revolutionary war. During the entire year of 1781, the Continental Army did not get paid. When they were paid, the Continental Congress only gave the 3 months worth of back pay. Yet they fought on. Never forget what they and everyone after them did.

 
WE NEED @pmclaine TO WALK THESE ROUTES AGAIN!
Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Minuteman National Park. I would have liked to walk the entire trail from Charlestown to Concord but didn't have the time. Nevertheless, it was still an experience to be there where it began.


Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech a little less than a month before the Battle of Lexington and Concord. This video has been posted several times before but still great to watch.

Unfortunately, given the way young people have been lost on the English language, 90% of them couldn't understand the speech much less care about it.

We need a time machine to transport some of them back in time to learn why our Constitution is so important.