Weird Science Cool Pic of the Week
NASA's new rocket is certainly a sight to behold.
The Ares I-X was given its first test launch earlier this week and this picture shows the moment it broke the speed of sound.
As it did so it created a 'shock egg' - a cloud of vapour formed around a craft crashing through the sound barrier.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
