Oct 112022
 

A straightforward explanation of why rockets sound the way they do:

Many years ago there was some random internet crackpot arguing that active sound cancellation systems could be added to the tail end of a rocket to make it virtually silent. Watch this and see if you can figure out how to use a point-generated cancellation wave to silence a noise-generating system that is essentially a cone dozens of meters long.

 

 

 Posted by at 6:47 pm