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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: Spacex founder Elon Musk celebrates after the successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Earlier in the day NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off an inaugural flight and will be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. ( (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) )

Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, lead the charts for the most gained profits for this week, securing his spot in the fifth all-time richest men in the world, and amassing an additional $15 billion to add to his net worth. Musk is accompanied by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos and Quicken Loans' Dan Gilbert.

Elon Musk owes his rise in the stock market and fortunes to China's surge and demand for electric vehicles with Tesla providing for the market.

Musk's earnings total to $91.7 billion from hisprevious milestoneof reaching Forbes' fifth place in the Richest Men in the World list and top four in Bloomberg's Billionaire index.Forbesreport that this new feat by Musk made Tesla the world's most valuable and sought after car manufacturer in the world.

Another American billionaire who became a top owner for this week isDan Gilbert, a businessman best known for his mortgage and lending company, Quicken Loans, which he started back when he was only 22 years old. Dan Giilbert also owns the NBA Team, Cleveland Cavaliers. Gilbert's earnings totaled to a whopping sum of $14 billion that almost levels him with Elon Musk.

Amazon.com CEO, Jeff Bezos, is the third biggest gainer on this list that bumps the world's richest man another $7.6 billion in earnings and makes him hit a new all-time high. Amazon's shares rose by four percent and leveled off since then.

The rise in the fortunes and earnings of these three billionaires contributed to a massive spike in the S&P 500 index. This surge reported an all-time high. Musk, Gilbert, and Bezos's increase in profits reversed the stock market's losses since its crash in March of this year.

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The massive earnings of the three record-breaking billionaires marked a significant milestone in reversing a crash in the stock market despite the S&P 500, maintaining a leveled graph while monitoring the changes. The world's top ten billionaires gained a massive $53.4 billion in earnings just this week.

(Photo : (Photo by Loren Elliott/Getty Images))BOCA CHICA, TX - SEPTEMBER 28: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gives an update on the next-generation Starship spacecraft at the company's Texas launch facility on September 28, 2019 in Boca Chica near Brownsville, Texas. The Starship spacecraft is a massive vehicle meant to take people to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Elon Musk's Tesla grew by 24 percent and gave him a $15 billion earnings for this week that added to his sum of $91.7 billion. Tesla's stocks rose and surpassed Walmart's market cap. Musk is now gaining a massive demand for electric vehicles from China, which has its production there.

(Photo : (Photo by Scott Legato/Getty Images for AOL Autoblog))DETROIT, MI - OCTOBER 06: Founder and Chairman, Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures Majority Owner, 2016 NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers Dan Gilbert speaks during Autoblog UPSHIFT 2016 on October 6, 2016 in Detroit, Michigan.

Dan Gilbert's rise in earnings put him ahead of Mexican telecoms CEO Carlos Slim Helu, the former richest person on the planet up until Bill Gates take over in 2013. Quicken Loans' parent company, Rocket Companies, gained a 37 percent increase that tops the most substantial soar for this week.

Gilbert's fortune increased six-fold, totaling $53.5 billion in his net worth. Quicken Loans' founder gained $13 billion this week and a hefty $4 billion only for Friday. Currently, Gilbert is the 20th wealthiest person in the world, according to Forbes.

(Photo : (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon))WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 19: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces the co-founding of The Climate Pledge at the National Press Club on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com gained another increase in his fortunes that makes him untouchable from his current designation as the richest man in the world. Bezos's four percent increase totals to $7.6 billion added to his record-breaking 70% increase in 2020 alone.

Currently, Bezos has a total of $196.3 billion of earnings alone. On the other hand, MacKenzie Scott, Bezos' ex-wife, also made an increase of $2.6 billion in earnings.

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This is why the water is sprayed into the air as it needs to be in the air to be able to move from the sound traveling through the air. Once it's on the ground it's not really doing anything.

Water deluge is needed near the ground because the sound reflects off surfaces and back on to the rocket effectively creating a variety of different length resonance paths for standing waves to form (different length means different frequency). So you spray water between the rocket exhaust and any non-rocket surfaces to absorb the energy. Edit: This paragraph has a bit of speculation on the idea that standing waves are formed, and it seems to me this is a good hypothesis, but I couldn't find any sources talking about it.

One talks about the Shuttle systems, and it's not so much about resonance and standing waves (which I thought was plausible too), but sheer reflection of energy onto the craft and the structures holding it up. Plus dealing with some hot exhaust, if anybody cared. Apparently it's largely about the compression of bubbles within droplets, as associated with sonar detection management:

https://interestingengineering.com/nasa-sound-suppression-system-prevents-rocket-from-exploding

It's a bit clumsy in referencing both bubbles and molecules at the end. Another neat source of info is from a provider of software for modelling fluid flows:

https://www.aft.com/blog/entry/2017/12/10/shhhh-suppressing-sound-waves

with two neat case-studies referenced therein, albeit more about water-delivery to strict flow-rate requirements, less about the physics of sound suppression, but hey, enjoy . One is a 'hypothetical launch scenario', with a phenomenal number of rainbirds and complex valve timing, the other is a variation on a real KSC pad design. Reflecting others in this thread, the second study there also notes the potential use of an additional N2-pressurised water supply system, running at 200psi (~13.8 bar) to augment a pump/gravity-fed deluge. So, quite possible.

A(nother) surprise to me - permanently mounted enclosed water bags as sound baffles... https://www.vinyltechnology.com/Portfolio/NASA-sound-suppression-system.aspx

For those wanting a bit more physics:

A much geekier paper is "Sixty years of launch vehicle acoustics" https://asa.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1121/2.0000704 - that's the Acoustical Society of America. And turns out these guys at NASA did some work on it too 🙂 https://www.nas.nasa.gov/assets/pdf/ams/2014/AMS_20140408_Panda.pdf

And for a bit of additional academic gravitas, the NASA slides referenced some papers by Dr Fukuda et al at JAXA, and this one looks like a great read: "Examination of Sound Suppression by Water Injection at Lift-off of Launch Vehicles"https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2011-2814

Turns out, there are multiple effects between noise and water, with different efficiencies at different frequencies. Absorption by droplets for the (main) win, in this situation. I can't access the full paper right now, but will see if I can get to it later.

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Boca Chica State Park (Brownsville) - 2020 All You Need to ...

Due to its southernlocation in the United States that border the Gulf of Mexico, Texas is home to a number of great beaches, but many people forget about one beach on the southernmost point of the state, Boca Chica Beach.

While residents and visitors alike usually know about the desolate stretches of beach along the Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christiandthousands visitthe resort shores of South Padre Island each year, Boca Chica receives surprisingly few visitors each year.

Boca Chica Beach is about 23 miles east of Brownsville on Highway 4, which dead-ends at the Gulf of Mexico. Street-licensed vehicles can travel on the sand, but the refuge rules strictly forbid off-roading otherwise. The beach is openfrom sunrise to sunset and entrance is free, however, you cannot camp or otherwise stay overnight in the refuge.

Boca Chica Beach sits on asandy peninsula separated from Mexico by the Rio Grande River and detached from South Padre Island by the Brazos Santiago Pass. Technically part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge,which is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the eight-mile beach at Boca Chica fronts tidal salt flats, mangrove marshes, and clay dunes calledlomas.

Aside from a few homes on stilts near the pass, which you can see from South Padre Island, and a jetty protruding into the Gulf of Mexico, you won't find any development at Boca Chica Beach. However, since it is the southernmostbeach in Texas, you will usually find clean, clear green water lapping against the sand.

The Kemp's ridley sea turtle, the most critically endangered sea turtle in the world, comes ashore to nest in spring and summer. Aplomado and peregrine falcons migrate through the area, and hawks, osprey, and other birds of prey frequent the shoreline. You should also keep an eye out for the Portuguese man o' war, a floating jellyfish-like creature that inflicts a painful sting and becomes particularly plentiful following storms.

What Boca Chica lacks in modern amenities, it makes up for with a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities, including surf fishing, swimming, surfing, snorkeling, kiteboarding, and birdwatching. However,the lack of facilities means you must bring all of your own gear for whichever activity you want to pursue, in addition to plenty of drinking water, food, sunscreen, insect repellent, a first-aid kit, and any other essentials for your own safety and comfort.

Most often, you'll only meet local residents atthis remote destination, butit can get more crowded than you might expect, particularly on weekends. Bring a sack to carry out your own garbage and any you find left behind by less conscientious visitors. Refuge rules prohibit alcoholic beverages and unleashed pets; in addition, visitors should refrain from feeding wildlife and collecting or otherwise disturbing thebeach.

Another interesting thing to do is travel down to the mouth of the Rio Grande, where you can see the border wall between the United States and Mexico, which continues out to see about 30 feet into the ocean. This is the southernmost point in Texas, which is almost as far south as the Florida Keys, the southernmost point on the continental U.S.

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A sandy eight-mile beachon a narrow spit of arid land between the Rio Grande delta and the salt flats of the lower Laguna Madre, Boca Chica is the alpha and omega of Texasthe place where a once mighty river spills into the mightier Gulf, where the U.S. ends and Mexico begins, and where the high-rises of South Padre Island give way to an untamed, undeveloped coast. Protected by both state and federal authorities as part of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge, this gloriously empty stretch of shore calls to anyone wanting to give civilization the slip.

Thats exactly what drew me as far east as I could go on Texas Highway 4. Just past the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint, I was greeted by an old fuel tank with a spray-painted scrawl: Boca Chica Village Welcomes You. The depopulated village was as ghostly as the Civil War markers Id seen along the road, and I continued driving past the windswept grasslands and tidal inlets until the pavement ended at a break in the dunes. Except for the brown pelicans skimming the breakers and the red knots hunting the tide line for a meal, the beach was desolate. I turned south onto the sand, following a multitude of tire tracks about three miles to the small mouth of the Rio Grande.

When I visited Boca Chica back in 2001, the river was a mere trickle. A few months later, it halted at a sandbar that had formed at its mouth and made national headlines. But lately things have improved. In 2010 Falcon Dam was at capacity, and Mexico had major tropical storms, said Bryan Winton, the manager at the Rio Grande Valley refuge. With that dam release, we saw significant flooding. We have had no sizable rainfall since then, but we have farmers that need freshwater, so the river is still flowing.

The mouth of the river makes a fine place for a short hike. I got out of my car and explored the shell-specked sand, relieved to see a thirty-foot-wide inlet, its dark green water flashing occasional whitecaps, that offered a glimpse upstream. Patches of prickly pear and yucca hunched behind the dunes, and across the way, a lighthouse stood sentinel over the sands of Matamoros. I caught sight of a juvenile green turtle lying dead in a mat of sargassum weed and was filled with dismay, but I reminded myself that the five species of sea turtle known to breed in Texas would soon begin nesting nearby. Another end, another beginning.

To get there:Boca Chica is always open. Drive 23 miles east on Texas Highway 4 from Brownsville; the road dead-ends at the beach. There are no services, so youll need to bring your own food, water, and surfboard. Camping is not allowed.

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