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Space: making the double-helicopter possible since 1961
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All my fuckin life I lived a normal fuckin life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GH5rYf2Ko
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"Mr. President we may have something else you might be interested in, a University of Illinois basketball from 1909"
"I uh, uh...that's..uh...that's a bit of memorabilia right there, Illinois isn't, uh, uh, really known for its basketball teams, more for it's science programs - ANYWAYS"
I can't believe that happened.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
How long until we get real space ships? No more of this crap that looks like they threw it together and hoped it'd fly.
this
OR
this?
well, this is what we plan to go to the moon with
and what we plan to go to mars with will really just be a bigger version of that so
probably not for awhile
although virgin's spaceplanes look neat
Honey Nut Cheerios - seriously either of those. I'm talking flush walls with hidden wiring. Sleek shiny paint jobs. Jesus goddamn christ, is it too much to ask for a space ship that doesn't look like it was put together as a school science project? Those motherfuckers don't even have proper seating.
Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Also, this ain't no J.J. Abrahms movie. Shuttles are built for function before form and NASA isn't going to go build some awesome space hot rod that's 20% dead weight.
Actually one of the biggest sources of problems on the shuttle is that it was built for form before function.
Feynman on the Challenger. He talks about the liquid fuel engines in the shuttle having bad design decisions that were forced because the shape/size of their enclosures had already been decided.
That's a pretty interestingly unsettling link.
Yeah, I know what you meant. I had just remembered Feynman's thing and was looking for an excuse to post it.
More computing power than the lunar lander!
until then, the payload sits on top of the large controlled explosion, farthest away from the hot bits not cantilevered off the side of a million-some pounds of lox and h2.
"Think of it as Evolution in Action"
I suggest an elevator.
one idiot clips it with a plane and whoops I just dropped this rig down a 300mile arc
It will never break. It will only become space stairs.
Space water slide.
I propose every project NASA is working on be canceled and all resources be directed at building a space water slide.
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We can get a plane pretty high, but it's kinda insignificant when you're going 300 miles high.
To get to an orbit like the Hubble's, the difference between launching vertically and flying up and then rocketing up would only be a small fraction of the total fuel, and the complexity of the system would be astronomically greater.
For relatively low altitude trips to space (like Scaled Composites does) then yes, flying high before lighting off your rocket makes lots of sense and that's why they do it.
I know there are a ton of other reasons, but fuck that noise, I gave you my two cents
"Think of it as Evolution in Action"
i mean they were HUGE
i don't think she's always like that
SPACE EYES
ha lemur eyes all
"Think of it as Evolution in Action"
except she had a hat