So the last mythbusters episode featured an attempt to break glass using a sonic boom. They failed and naturally their message board is full of attempted explanations. Its hilarious, no one is even close and it serves as a reminder of the dark side of the internet- its an enabler, but mostly it enables idiots to propagate their stupid opinions. If you're interested in having a laugh, take a look, I think the url is: http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9401967776/m/11219196101 Of course, you could save your valuable time and not both to glance at it (I wouldn't have, I don't regularly visit that or any internet forum, but one of they undergrads I do research with mentioned it). Basically its a bunch of idiots ranting about whether or not sonic booms are continous or not, any why are why not they would break a glass.
I find it laughable because the answer is quite simple to anyone who's ever take a compressible fluids course.
So, with this particular instance of idiocy serving as a case study, it is safe to conclude that the internet is full of morons, none of whom should be taken seriously unless you can meet them face to face. (In fact, you could say the same thing about this blog.)
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