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.
@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 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?
@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.
@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?
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.
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.
"...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.
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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We should rename Earth's moon "Laika".
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I suck at history.
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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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Here's a picture of the craft.
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Hey, dude... even I know you don't put the rocket motors on the pointy end.
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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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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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:)
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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A torret gun to shoot Combines with.
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somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street...