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I've flown big rockets for fun for over 20 years - mostly out in the Black Rock desert in Nevada back when I used to live in the US (it's harder here to find places to fly that are both fire-safe and easily recoverable).
We were always limited by the US 100K law that limited flights to 100kft (about 20 miles) under FAA control (above that you need to do a ton of paper work and calculate the chances of falling somewhere unsafe - you have to do the statistical math and calculate what fraction of a person you will likely kill) and I must admit I never flew over 15kft personally (about 5km) as it basically costs too much for an individual of ordinary means - friends have flown to just under 100k and others have launched from balloons at 100k.
Since it's friday here's some video from blackrock some friends made a week or so ago
I wish the Rocket Labs guys well - flying rockets is hard - absolutely everything has to be perfect under conditions you can't really simulate prior to that first flight - it's way too easy to screw up - and doing it publicly is IMHO just asking for Murphy to step in ....
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I've flown big rockets for fun for over 20 years
I can safely say that this is a sentence I never expected to read on PAS.
Also, it is at moments like these that I become overwhelmed by how profoundly boring I am. :)
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here's the link I always give people who wonder 'how big' - my biggest project has only been about 4m long (one has to give serious consideration to such important design issues such as "how to get it in the car")
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Libraries, boring ?
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Libraries, boring ?
Ah, but I don't work in a library any more! (At least for the moment. Until I get pulled back in like Al Pacino in Godfather III, and my soul dies horribly, Sofia Coppola styles.)
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One minute in.
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Sofia Coppola styles
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3410,
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1. The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation. When I first saw it I thought I was going to levitate with joy.
2. If working in a library was anything like 'Elektrobank' sounds I would be stoked. Also, I own possibly the most incongruous piece of memorabilia ever: a Chemical Brothers *coffee mug*. Just... why? (No one has ever adequately answered who it was doing that synthetic type of alphabetapsychedelic funkin', either.)
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Since nobody else has said it yet...
"a 100 per cent certifiable fucking genius"
Bit of a rocket scientist, is he?
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Thanks for stepping into the breach, David. I stayed up late and played with the cool kids after the music awards last night, so I'm giving myself a day off from everything.
But y'all really must read Leo's awesome review of Dead Space: Extraction on the Wii. The boy can write.
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I have a pen that looks exactly like that rocket above.
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The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation.
Followed closely by the Nimoy "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (no time to go hunting for it on YouTube - one of you lovely people will doubtless have it bookmarked...)
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The 1978 Shatner 'Rocket Man' is possibly the peak of western civilisation.
It is a masterclass in the arts of actorising and singerisation.
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Followed closely by the Nimoy "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" (no time to go hunting for it on YouTube - one of you lovely people will doubtless have it bookmarked...)
No...shut up!
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I have a pen that looks exactly like that rocket above
And some leftover V2 components prop up the building overlooking Aotea Square.
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now you see I walk through a hardware store and see things shaped like that and start to dream .... that link above is what happens when someone comes across concrete pipe formers in a mitre-10 equivalent
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That's a mighty big toy.
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But y'all really must read Leo's awesome review of Dead Space: Extraction on the Wii. The boy can write.
Certainly I couldn't help but admire this:
Dead Space Extraction takes place in the media hub that is the Dead Space franchise. The series is a cake made of win and the icing is made of success.
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now you see I walk through a hardware store and see things shaped like that and start to dream
Heh. Lucky all those crazy Freudian theories about sexual desire as the primary motivational energy of human life have been discredited, eh?
Otherwise we could have a lot of fun with metaphoric images of rockets thrusting through skies of virgin blue on mighty pillars of fire.
Sometimes a rocket is just a rocket?
Libraries, boring?
Oook.
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Little Boys.....
Don't ya love the time travel~~~~~~~~!!!!
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3410,
Speaking of awesome/terrible spoken word performances...
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Sometimes a rocket is just a rocket?
Play with these long enough and you've heard all the Freud jokes - sometimes a rocket is just a rocket - some people do it for the challenge of building something cool, others just like the big noise.
As I said above rockets go wrong easily, and usually spectacularly in front of your friends leaving you looking sheepish and feeling foolish while everyone else is whooping it up .... a lot of people get discouraged and don't come back - you have to develop a sort of zen acceptance of failure to keep at this game.
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