Posted on 04/05/2015 6:47:41 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
[VIDEO] Anyone with some brains and lots of courage can build their own space rocket using everyday, off-the-shelf products. We recently flew to Denmark to meet the founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals, a non-profit open-source D.I.Y. space endeavor.
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When I was much younger, I saw other kids into model rocketry playing with their solid fuel “motors” that would get a few hundred, maybe a thousand feet. I kept wondering why they weren’t trying to build a liquid-fueled multi-stage that would put something into orbit.
These days, the gestapo would be all over you if you tried to buy the components for the fuel, let alone try to actually launch an orbital vehicle. Seems the gummint now owns space as well as the skies above.
I would go with antimatter. More bang for the buck.
Never thought of using a hair dryer in a rocket engine before. I don’t suppose the other way around would be a good idea.
The future of space and manned space exploration does not lie in the USA ... any longer. We’re into diversity and other navel sucking racist projects in a unilateral race to the bottom, with the popular social media and educational institutions leading the way.
I have a lot of hair and I don’t want to spend a lot of time drying it.
3D printed antimatter. Using a Mac.
“Never thought of using a hair dryer in a rocket engine before”
I hope they’re not using a Conair, with or without the warranty.
Too expensive. And the magnetic containment system would be prohibitively complex. Besides, where would I find dilithium crystals? The Chinese have that market cornered.
This will get it dry, if not a little too dry. In fact, they should include a label that says “Do not use this product, EVER”.
Was it aboard a homemade rocket? If not, then I'm not too impressed.
/sarc
Maybe you’ll like the homemade submarine they built and sailed, UC3 Nautilus.
First of all the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe will supply all you need and the miners are all slaves so they can pass the savings on to you...the consumer. (There....I used ST and Firefly references )
Secondly ...You don’t STORE antimatter. You manufacture it by taking matter particles and teleporting it via Quantum Entanglement and reversing the electrons to positrons during the process directly into a rocket nozzle where a gaseous matter is being pumped.
That is pretty impressive actually.
I can build one, but there’s that Gravity problem getting it out there.
In 1945—rumor says that the Nazis put a man into low earth orbit using an A-10. It flew over the USA in a test of a planned attack on New York—flew over the Pacific to land in the sea of Japan. Pilot was rescued by the Japanese Navy and sent by 4 engined plane —over the pole back to Germany. Real or Rumor???? Could an A-10 make such a trip. Might make a cool movie? or a documentry? Is it even possible? Can a nation without conputers even do such a thing? Do records exist of such a thing—In Germany? In japan in the USA Radar logs? Interesting.
I think the longest extension cord you can get is about a hundred feet.......
In the first few months of 1945, Germany was in a state of collapse. They could barely get their remaining planes in the air to go against the massive fleets of Allied bombers coming at them. I doubt very much they had the wherewithal to be testing suborbital weapons.
I doubt the rumors are true, at least about a manned flight going that distance
Oh, you’re talking about the Quantum engine. I was referring to the standard Warp Drive, which used a magnetic “bottle” to transport the antimatter to the reaction chamber where it was annihilated by the matter. The dilithium crystals are just valves that regulate the rate and direction of flow.
In either case, an antimatter drive is far, far away beyond my budget, which is limited to about three-fiddy.
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