GR: screaming

[David Casseres]

That paradox is intended, in my view.  You can't hear the sound made
by the rocket, but you hear the screaming.  What, yet again, is the
screaming, already? It's the rocket itself.  Can't see it, can't hear
its noise, but somewhere down in our crawling flesh we hear IT.

(Those who are Paying Attention may have smoak'd that I think the
screaming is pretty much everything that's Mortal, except it's also
everything that's Immortal.)

On 11/1/05, John Doe <tristero69 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> yes...you can certainly consider the sound of a V-2's
> combustion as screaming...but..there's a problem: the
> v-2 upon descent was moving faster than the speed of
> sound...therefore, nobody would be hearing " a
> screaming comes across the sky" if they were on the
> receiving end of the trajectory....so the evacuees are
> not in fact hearing a flying rocket...the sound
> arrives after impact....they are "hearing" something
> else...;  )
>
> --- sims <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:
>
> > At 1:51 PM -0700 10/29/05, John Doe wrote:
> > >
> > >This is correct :  ) the "screaming' is in fact an
> > >air-raid siren at peak frequencey, being compared
> > to
> > >the "screams" the V-2s belatedly make after descent
> > >and impact....
> >
> >
> > In the morning, at lunch, and at the end of the day
> > I can hear an air raid
> > siren wailing here. Comes directly across Grand
> > Harbor to my flat near
> > the abandoned Metro bar. Genuine re-built WWll air
> > raid siren. Damn thing
> > wails if you ask me. Here they seem to love dirges,
> > laments,
> > and blaming fate more than screaming.  Rockets
> > scream, IMNHO.
> >
> > ciao,
> > sims
> >
>
>
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