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? asked in Science & MathematicsEngineering · 5 years ago

How can you go hypersonic, with a very simple device?

Update:

You can boil water in a plastic bag, held over a flame.

The "Thinness" of the plastic bag transmittes the heat energy into the water without melting the plastic bag.

Try It...put water ina plastic bag, sandwhich bag, and hold a cigarret lighter under it. See???

Heat Energy is transferred into the water without melting the plastic bag

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    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    You don't, you build a complicated sleek device that takes a lot of fuel to get to the speed and is built to take the heat generated by going that fast.

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