Re: Water at extreme pressure can cut through stone/Fishing for numbers
"Water at extreme pressure can cut through stone."
Yes, I know. Funny, I actually saw a Water Saw at work once. Pretty cool. Watch your thumbs.... But still, Foam is not Water and certainly not ice....
However, the scenario *seems* more reasonable if there was Ice on that insulation.
Hmm, So the speed of the shuttle at the point the foam broke of was above mach one, at least as reported through CNN. What was the speed of the foam relative to the wing? how much mass did that chunk have and what is the impact energy? What effect did the material properties of the foam have on the Impact? All interesting questions that I have no numbers for.
Ahhh, if only I had taken more Physics and less Symbolic Logic!
Davin