Posted on 01/19/2008 11:03:55 PM PST by anymouse
Six times a hoax.
When I was a kid, we were lighting off Indian fireworks. I had a nice fountain that had a picture of the firework in a bottle with all sorts of Hindi writing all around the picture. Being a sensibel lad, I figured that this meant that you should put the thing in a bottle and light it.
Long story short, I put the thing in a bottle, it goes off in a beautiful shower of sparks for about 30 seconds, then falls into the bottle and explodes. I was about 30 feet away at the time, and I still have the scars in my legs to show off. How nobody was seriously injured, I will never know.
I took another of the fireworks and took it inside and showed it to our cook, and asked him what the writing said. It said "DO NOT PUT FIREWORKS IN BOTTLE".
On the bid for the shuttle solid rockets, there were at least two types. 1, was a single segment and would be built in Florida and shipped to the launch site. I think that was Aerojets'. The other one is the current one made by originaly, Morton Thiokill. It was in segments made in Utah and shipped by train to Florida. Guess who won the bid? This was when James Fletcher was an admin and had a supposed connection to Utah.
They built one 40 years ago and they can’t build one today?
Ya’ got it SAL. Thanks to LBJ we couldn’t build a new SR-71 to save our a** either. Our retreat from leading edge tech is way more frightening than most folk think about.
Ya’ got it SAL. Thanks to LBJ, we couldn’t build a new SR-71 to save our a** either. Our retreat from high tech is frightening on several fronts.
Ya’ got it SAL. Thanks to LBJ, we couldn’t build a new SR-71 to save our a** either. Our retreat from high tech is frightening on several fronts.
Resonance propulsion vibration was commonly referred to a “pogo effect” in the early days of large scale rocketry. You would think that someone at NASA would have remembered about that.
cool story.
looks like Ares 1 is basically a giant guided Bottle-Rocket.
Is this vibration actually an uncontrolled thrust where you get momentary slight bursts of added push up through the rest of the vehicle or are they talking about the regular shake rattle and roll?
Especially when the "moon" pix showed a grassy knoll in the background of one picture.< /s>
Nope. We've lost the recipe. We couldn't easily rebuild a 50 year old design.
If we had the will, we could build it much, much better...
Well in one photo there was a picture of a McDonalds complete with drive-thru on it.
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