Now imagine and contemplate that, not even 200 years ago, people used to have to make a journey of this scale in a wooden wagon. America is astonishingly vast.
This is not true lol. It may seem uninhabitable to a person from a large city, but there are hundreds of towns and thousands of villages, and millions of people live there. The majority of the villagers are making use of Siberia's extremely rich nature to live. This region is just not economically developed, because Russia doesn't have enough money and people to make it look like its European part. But seeing how westerners talk about it, I assume its your media making you believe in "Russia doesn't need it but we do" @@amalayperson7208
Realistically this video would actually be upside down, because at Mach 50 you have to have a *negative* angle of attack to maintain altitude due to the curvature of the Earth. You could fly upright with the nose down, but aircraft are usually designed to produce lift more efficiently with a positive angle of attack, which flying inverted lets you do. Moreover, pilots also operate more efficiently in positive gees than negative gees, and following the Earth's curvature at Mach 50 results in the aircraft experiencing around -1.2G So at very high speeds, flying inverted is both more efficient and more comfortable. The 'rollover' speed is around Mach 23 at sea level, depending which direction you're flying.
@@kavithasunilkumarms7423 Yep. If you think about it from the upside-down pilot's point of view, the Earth's surface is constantly curving 'up' away from him, so he also has to pull up to follow it - otherwise he'll fall 'down' into space. I think this is probably the universe's way of telling us that flying that we shouldn't be trying to fly that fast - but when have humans (and especially test pilots) ever done as they're told?
@@My-Pal-Hal problem is that you're going so fast that the air doesn't have time to get out of the way, like a shockwave from a detonation, except it's constant and at mach 50 it won't just bend steel on a flat surface, it will be essentially hitting a brick wall of air.
@@kugelblitz1557 The Real Problem Is,.. No $hit 😂 ✌️ 😂 ...but fun. That's one of the reasons why there ain't no Mach 50 Aircraft running around recently. ... that anyone, or any Entities 👽 will admit too 😏 That is funny though. Even saying Mach 50. People don't realize that's Twice As Fast as you need to go, for orbital velocity. Like 38k mph or so. And I'm not even sure if that's statute vs nautical miles 😳 ... damn, where's my slap stick 🖖
@@kugelblitz1557 now I'm just wondering if you had little rods or whatever of brick and steel of the same volume, would the steel bend before the brick breaks? Edit: now that I think about it for a sec it's probably highly temperature dependent
just make a big spear with some kind of super rocket jet on the back, and fill the spear with fuel and lots of space for passengers XD the shockwave would be less that way oh and make sure to fly really high, for minimal air resistance
no, no, no. This mach 50 technology actively counteracts problems from pushing through air at that speed. In fact, it may be moving through a generated vacuum. If not, the airs can be calmed. Even the sound waves are actively calmed. It's all above your pay grade. But rest assured they aren't simply ramming through air at mach 50 and letting whatever happens happens.
You would actually be fine (from the vortex standpoint, everything else, such as the dynamic pressure, and the heating, not so much), as to fly like this, you would have to be inverted, and pulling over 1G, because this is above twice orbital velocity, so in order to not gain altitude, you have to produce lift downwards, meaning your vortices would be traveling upwards, and not hit the ground.
It’s crazy that just outside LA over the big valley mountains are just endless amounts of desert wasteland, canyons & mountains. It takes weeks to get anywhere out there that’s green till you hit the Mississippi
@@evanhughes1510 most of the states you mentioned are actually yellow/tannish color since it’s mostly wheat fields, farms & dry grasslands out there. The east coast is where it’s more green with trees everywhere. Out west it tends to get more dry & desert. But Missouri & Colorado are pretty green.
@@evanhughes1510 You misunderstood the OP comment. He specifically said TRAVELING FROM L.A. EASTWARD. Yes, Oklahoma is west of the Mississippi but nowhere near the route L.A.-Mississippi.
@@michaelweston409 Yes, but if you're driving L.A.-Mississippi (as the OP implies), the whole landscape is dry af. I've driven solo from Palm Springs to El Paso; it's a looooong stretch of sand, small off-green shrubbery and tan color mountains off in the distance, at least that's how I remember it.
Mach 50 is at a similar speed as the space probe Voyager 1, in which it took 36 years just to leave the solar system after being launched in the year 1977.
When I fly across country from east to west (chasing the sun), I can just spend all of my time looking out of the window... watching all the topography, the homes, the roads, and curious sights.
@@Kinobambino Very true, but you would need a form of hyper- perception or else you'd crash into everything. Maybe that's why time dialates the faster you go.
The air resistance going at this speed this close to the ground would toast this aircraft. Typical re-entry speeds are around Mach 25, in the upper atmosphere. This is double that, at around 1-5 thousand feet above the ground. This would create an Insane amount of heat.
I made the drive from Connecticut to Los Angeles with my (now ex-) wife and dog in 2005 to move out there, and it took just about 5 days. It wasn’t a direct straight line drive like this was, and going the southern route put us on a collision course with Hurricane Katrina. We were both heading for the top of Louisiana and would have converged if I hadn’t decided to try to avoid it- so we couldn’t stay at the hotel that we’d reserved, and since everyone else was evacuating north, it was almost impossible to find a substitute room. I had to drive all the way to North Little Rock, Arkansas to finally find a vacancy, and so I ended up driving 17.5 hours that day. That day and the remainder of the drive really gave me an appreciation for just how large the US actually is, and it was reinforced when I made the drive back in the opposite direction five years later to move back to my home state. Incredible and beautiful scenery, as well, and I’d recommend making a cross country drive to anyone who has the time and opportunity to do it. It’s a treasured memory, especially the drive back when it was just my dog and me- I always enjoyed driving for longer distances, and listening to my favorite music and my thoughts, and with Ajax with me, I didn’t feel lonely even once. This was a great video, and obviously brought up the feeling I experienced of the vastness of the country- thanks for creating and posting this!
Well, mach 50 would be impossible in an atmosphere. There would simply be too much resistance on an airframe. The SR-71 Blackbird jet required exotic materials to just fly slightly above match 3. The frame was hot enough to vaporize water when it got up to speed. Also, mach 50 would kill or badly hurt anything in the immediate area. The shockwaves alone would level buildings. 😳
@@Maloney-ho6fb You do know that mach 50 is 50 times the speed of sound, right? Outside of an atmosphere, that speed is possible. But the solid matter in an atmosphere would not be able to reach those speeds without breaking apart immediately. Currently, as far as any of us know, we don't have any super science that will allow us to defy physics.
@@modemmack And not to mention the fact that Mach 50 is something like 38,000 mph, which is almost 1.5 times the escape velocity. One small misjudgment and you're going into space, and you're not coming back.
@@mikechurvis9995 But in order to achieve Earth’s escape velocity, the probe had to travel at over Mach 40. So yeah, we technically did get up to that speed just planets helped us a tiny bit.
@@baileyharrison1030 Well getting to that speed in the air is impossible. You would burn up long before you get there as you push 4000 degrees. Even then, if you went at that speed at earth's surface, the surface would bend away from you and you would be flung into space.
Wow. The higher altitude level makes this a lot more watchable than your previous videos. Be good to inset a small map in the top corner to show the progress across the various states, mountain ranges and cities and towns as well.
@@atlas-3541 wow. Yeah imagine how they can do that speed underwater lol. Just wow. I bet 30 is just a speed they do to ensure they don't wreck with our junk in the air. I'm pretty sure that if real they can travel far faster than shown here in the video.
i was surprised by all the desert in the west, and the east being a lot more green than the west. and it looked like they didn't have any trees until close to east coast.
Mach 50 is 600 miles a minute, 10 miles a second. A trip around the earth would take about 40 minutes. If you hit something, you wouldn't have time to even think about it.
Thanks for the video. With the ground whizzing by at that speed, reminds me and looks like something similar from the movie "2001 space odyssey" near the end of the movie where they do the high speed stuff.
Could you maybe try this again with some kind of radar/minimap in the corner so we have better points of reference? 5 minutes from LA to NYC is impressive, but it would be nice if we could actually understand where the state borders are located, how quickly each one is traversed, which landmarks, cities, and highways are seen throughout the timelapse, etc. It's a neat concept, but it needs a lot of work.
Mach 50 is approximately double Orbital Velocity, which means as soon as you get even close to this speed, you will probably be sent away from Earth very, very quickly.
Now we need a rear facing camera to see what super ultra hypersonic flight low level does to things nearby. I' m kinda thinking anything within visual range is pretty screwed.
At ground level Mach 50 would correspond to about 37900 miles per hour at standard temperature and pressure, which is more than twice the orbital speed of the ISS. The air around an object travelling at such speed would be turned into hot plasma.
Mach 50 is approximately 0.00572% of the speed of light in air. The Parker Solar Probe which is the fastest man made object attained 194000 m/s (mach 562), that is 0.0649% of the speed of light.
just imagines how many bird you could kill with a plane that fast. i do wonder if the planes would immediately de-compress if a bird hit the windshield.
From the ground it will be visible as a bright plasma fireball, destroying with a monstrous shock wave everything that is under it and tearing off the top layer of soil! (Google translation)
This is double the speed of LEO. I seen ISS with our 8in dob. Satellites are very fast. Even though they are much farther away than planes they move like 3x faster from ground perspective looking up. I live in the country and every clear night I look up for a few minutes and now a days there are satellites all over the place.
