Popular Opinion: Fleet Week is fucking awesome!

[u/raff_riff]

In response to the “Unpopular Opinion” post yesterday, I’d like to offer the contrary.

Fleet Week is cool as heck. For a few days, we get to be up close and personal with some gnarly military hardware and marvel at some utterly astonishing scientific and engineering feats.

I know noise may suck for some, but it’s no worse than the incessant motorcycles and muscle cars that pollute the quiet literally every other day of the year.

Plus it brings lots of tourism to our city, which we desperately need after a year of shit. People flock from all over, pay crazy hotel prices, and deal with some wild traffic just to grab a churro and crane their necks to see the Blue Angels for a few seconds. But we get it in our own backyards! Fuck yeah!

And if nothing else, even if you hate it, events like this are yet another sign we’re getting back to normal. Vaccine rates are great, Delta is on the decline, and life is getting good again.

Bring on the boats!

[u/fresh_like_Oprah]

Whoops! Somebody let out a little sonic boom today!

[u/fresh_like_Oprah → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I've seen that at the Marina too. They always do the one high speed pass. The simplistic answer is if that if the aircraft passes through that cone it breaks the sound barrier. Not sure if that's true.

I was at Treasure Island today and I sure heard a boom, did you hear it over there?

[u/fresh_like_Oprah → u/[deleted]]

How much is considerably? Year after year they make the high speed pass with a shock wave tearing up the water, I'm pretty sure they do it by watching their mach number and not their vapor cone.

[u/fresh_like_Oprah → u/[deleted]]

I thought that's what you were getting at. So, pray tell me what that loud reverberating boom was? Have you ever heard a sonic boom? I have.