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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    This sounds like the perfect gig for Major Tom.
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    Image of ELPARTO ELPARTO
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    I'll do it for $17,000! Two thousand now, and fifteen when we reach Aldera--dah I mean Titan. I will also be providing my own ship, it completed the Kessel run in less than twelve parsecs. Perhaps you've heard of it? It's pictured below.
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    Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea® promoted this comment Edited by ELPARTO at 10/10/09 9:11 PM ELPARTO was starred ELPARTO was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/11/09

    @ELPARTO: "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've made a lot of special modifications myself."
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    I'll bet folks are dying to take him up on this offer.
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    Image of prometeum prometeum
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    Poor Laika, she had the worst death that any creature on this planet could have had.
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    jeffk promoted this comment prometeum was starred prometeum was unstarred
    Image of jeffk jeffk
    10/10/09

    @prometeum: Not the worst, of course, but bad and sad.

    We should rename Earth's moon "Laika".
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    10/10/09

    @prometeum: Not really...they euthanized her when the conditions in the capsule started getting bad.
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    10/11/09

    @prometeum: ok, re-reply to myself, as many of you say, she died in a different way... I thought she freezed to death but Laika ended up being fried while re-entrying.

    I suck at history.
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    Image of styfle styfle
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan

    I found an ad on craigslist where a dude was looking for someone to go back in time with him. It said bring your own weapons. Ah, here it is:
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    jakebathman promoted this comment styfle was starred styfle was unstarred
    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    As long as theres paste food and passionfruit flavored TANG onboard...giddy up!
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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    You found my ad I see.
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    lostarchitect promoted this comment Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/10/09

    @Shamoononon: I shave my legs.: So, do I get the $25,000 before or after?... Oh, wait.
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    I encourage everyone to email this guy, and then repost what their conversations with the man here. Or elsewhere. Either way, how you cannot at least want to converse with the man who could blast you to Jupiter?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/10/09

    @mattycakes: Titan is a moon of Saturn.
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    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    10/10/09

    @badhatharry: Yeah, but you pass Jupiter on the way there, right? Gotta get that gravity-slingshot goodness going.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/10/09

    @I Think We're Property: Yeah, plus I sound like a douchebag correcting the guy. Titan can be anywhere you want it.
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/11/09

    @badhatharry: Damn... I'm a worse fact-checker than Fox News. Thank you badhatharry for reminding/correcting me, and +1 to I Think We're Property and Camo Zombie for being generally awesome.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    10/12/09

    @mattycakes: But, once again, I sound like a know-it-all douche for correcting you. Sorry about that.
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    Image of mattycakes mattycakes
    10/12/09

    @badhatharry: No hard feelings mate, you were doing the right thing.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan

    Here's a picture of the craft.
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    Image of Synthfilker Synthfilker
    10/10/09

    @ the guy that built the rocket:

    Hey, dude... even I know you don't put the rocket motors on the pointy end.
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    Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea® promoted this comment Synthfilker was starred Synthfilker was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/10/09

    @Synthfilker: Retrorockets for directional control.
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    Image of Synthfilker Synthfilker
    10/10/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: What does he need retrorockets for? It's a one-way trip!
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/10/09

    @Synthfilker: Steering. since it's not likely that he'll be using The Force to pilot with.
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    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 10/10/09 6:54 PM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of I Think We're Property I Think We're Property
    10/10/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: Not a very robust steering system. Looks really high powered and in only one direction. You notice that the thrusters on things like Apollo involved clusters of tiny thrusters pointed along every axis?
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    10/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: I can't believe only one person realized this was from Salvage-1....
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    10/11/09

    @I Think We're Property: I guess you didn't notice the ring of smaller thrusters below it, circling the fuselage.
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    Image of Synthfilker Synthfilker
    10/11/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®:

    Retrorockets != maneuvering thrusters

    You steer with thrusters - small rockets that have just enough power to orient the spacecraft. With those, you don't NEED "retrorockets". You just point the ass of the rocket opposite the direction of travel and use the main engine, or your OMS in the case of the shuttle.

    You DO understand there's no aerodynamic flight in space, right? B5, not SW.
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    Image of Verno77 Verno77
    10/10/09

    In reply to Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for One-Way Mission to Titan
    If a guys gonna lie about a spaceship, he could at least say you'll be coming back to Earth. I wonder what he needs the 25000 for, if his imaginary spaceship was real of course.
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    I'm pretty sure that's the Proteus from "Fantastic Voyage". Shrunk to the size of an RBC its not so fugly.
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    "...this guy built his first solid-fuel jet engine in a high school shop class."

    I don't think "solid-fuel" and "jet engine" go together. A jet engine uses a fan to force air into the (liquid) fuel where they are burned together.

    A "solid-fuel" engine is one type of rocket engine that's basically a slow bomb with a solid oxidizer mixed with a solid combustible.

    Just playing with the words - you could almost have a solid-fuel jet engine if you had some sort of aerosolized combustible powder that did NOT have an oxidizer mixed with it and instead got its oxygen from air forced with a turbine... That would be an interesting engineering exercise to see if it was even possible, but not something that anyone would bother making for any other reason.

    That's all - thanks.
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    Navin R Johnson promoted this comment DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother was starred DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother was unstarred
    Image of Navin R Johnson Navin R Johnson
    08/31/09

    @DreamTheEndless: +1 for the feasibility study of a typo.
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    Image of DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother DreamTheEndless: Death's little brother
    08/31/09

    @Navin R Johnson:
    :)

    Thanks -
    For the record, the typo was not the fault of Gizmodo - it was in the original article. I couldn't help but think it an interesting concept though...

    (Anyone want to see what happens when you force a few hundred pounds of non-dairy creamer into a turbine and light it? I kind of do... Anyone friends with bored postgrad students at someplace like Purdue, Cal-Tech, MIT, etc?)
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    Image of DigitalPasture DigitalPasture
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    Needs a turrent... And flames on the paintjob (to make it go faster of course).
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    Image of Indigen Indigen
    08/31/09

    @DigitalPasture: Needs a what?
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    gunluva listens to Top Gear, watches Fatboy Slim promoted this comment Indigen was starred Indigen was unstarred
    Image of gunluva is prepared to drop. gunluva is prepared to drop.
    08/31/09

    @Indigen:

    A torret gun to shoot Combines with.
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08/31/09

    @gunluva listens to Top Gear, watches Fatboy Slim: or a Tourette's gun, that would tell everybody to fuckoff, shit, fuck, shit, fuck, shit, motherfucker
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    Eventually this will end up on blocks, in some space redneck's front yard I tell you.
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    Image of BasicBlack BasicBlack
    08/31/09

    In reply to This Is What An Apollo 11 Engineer Ends Up With After 20 Years Of Working On a Travel Trailer
    This kind of sweet and innocent madness gives me hope for my own future. Here's to things that need no reason!
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    Curves promoted this comment BasicBlack was starred BasicBlack was unstarred
    Image of AkkiRonin AkkiRonin
    08/31/09

    @BasicBlack: a place to stay / enough to eat /
    somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street...
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