In a message dated 1/5/00 7:28:56 PM Eastern Standard Time,
battlekrome@hotmail.com writes:
> "PARA IMPACT STORM!"
> > >
> > > Mercury, who had been monitoring Paragon as well as the
>creature,
> > >gasped. Paragon had punched it one thousand, six hundred and
> > >thirteen times in less than five seconds, each time with a force
> > >capable of shattering prestressed concrete. There was a stuttering,
> > >thundering crack as her fists shattered the sound barrier repeatedly.
Technically Ranma's hands do break the sound barrier when
he does the amaguriken. But you don't hear the pops from the sonic booms.
there are two ways to interperet this. 1 a sort of chi field
forms around the hands and it acts like a coat of air that is accelerated
as
well so there is no compression wave to cause the sonic boom. 2 the hand
moves so fast that the sonic boom is so high pitched that it is unhearable.
a sped up version would also resolve itself into a loud hum rather than
individual sonic booms due to the speed.
technically true, perhaps-- I don't know-- but it ain't funny. Funny vs.
physics? Gimme the funny any day! ^_^
Kenko/Robert Haynie-- Author of Girl Days, Paragon, Redheads,
and War and Peace-- Gomen, no the last was Leo Tolstoy. Well,
I was CLOSE...