250k for a Trip into Space?
 

check out this guy...im guessing he'll end up turning into a big piece of jerky/charcoal http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif
http://www.nypostonline.com/news/nationalnews/29858.htm

He might make it ...

after all, this is rocket science, not brain surgery ... http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

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Oh and I forgot to mention his website is here: http://www.rocketguy.com

That place you got it MrBrian is a funny publication, they are more into publishing stuff like "Hamster Kidnaped by Aliens!!" then real journalism latelly ... http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif Thats why they are publishing a story that got pickups a while ago by space.com here: http://www.space.com/mag/contents_february.php3

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He's going to exit the atmosphere in a capsule named "Earthsar 1", eh? This is a fabulous venture, but if he's going to risk his life and spend his livelyhood on an attempt like this, he might have taken more care in picking a name for his vehicle that isn't already taken by a fungus ( http://www.polaris.net/~annep/Florid.../earthsta.html ). You'll notice that NASA carefully employed the tactic of not naming its own vehicles after parasitic organisms. The Mildew VII and Mold X never made it to the Cape Canaveral launch pad, I'm afraid.
Russia was similarly successful in avoiding fungal monikers. Sputnik, however, might be considered only a minor success, mind you, as it makes the mistake of being most easily likened to a sound you make when you sneeze.


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<h1>The Pendulum Rocket Fallacy</h1> This guy should read this ( http://www.ninfinger.org/%7Esven/rockets/gcsfaq.html ) and this ( http://www.quantumscientific.com/modroc4.html ) before he becomes like a mexican tostitos sauce ...

In short for the rest of us, here is the explanation:

The balancing act is so difficult that many intelligent amateurs have tried building rockets that have their engines at the top.

Intuition says that when you lift something from the side, it's center of mass will swing below the point of support and stabilize, like a pendulum that eventually lines up right under your point of support after swinging back and forth a bit.

So far so good.


By putting the engine at the top of their rockets, some amateur rocketeers intend to keep them upright during lift off. They think their rockets won't fall over like a pool cue without the juggler, but will just wobble back and forth under the rocket engine's support, like a pendulum, until it is completely stable.

One of the two main places where intuition goes awry is in forgetting that a rocket engine is rigidly connected to the rest of the vehicle, so the engine's support of the vehicle changes direction along with the center of mass.

The other place where intuition goes awry is assuming that larger masses will fall faster than lighter masses. Galileo showed this false when he dropped two differing weights from the Leaning Tower of Piza and they both hit the ground at the same time. The top and bottom of a pendulum rocket will fall at the same rate so gravity doesn't stabilize it.

In outer space, such a rocket would just go round and round in a big circle. In Earth's gravity, however, the whole circle falls at 9.8meters/sec**2.

If you are wondering how simple model rockets with fins manage to fly straight up, the short answer is, "Because that's the direction they were going when they got going fast enough that the wind on their fins made it hard to turn any other direction."


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When is CEN gonna give away a price like
that?

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