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Amateur Rocket Heads Into Space
scubacuda writes "Space.com has an article on a group of amateur rocketeers (the Civilian Space Xploration Team) hoping to send the first amateur rocket, Primera Spaceshot 2002, into space by the end of June from the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. If all goes well with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the team will send a rocket stands about 17 feet tall (5.18 meters) and weighs 550 pounds (249 kilograms) 62 nautical miles (114 kilometers) in the atmosphere (12 miles higher than the 50-mile altitude largely regarded as the boundary of space). (MSN version here)"
first post ?
i hope so i need karma
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." --Albert Einstein
.. but in a way very beautiful
thank you GhostseTroll for opening up my eyes
I will never look at a man quite the same way
Slashdot should do what fark does and change all "first post!" jackass comments to something like "I have an IQ in the single digits" and change the timestamp to some 12 hours in to the future.
As of 12:00am, June 21st, 2002, I am 18 years old! ;-))
(Yes, I know this is offtopic, but I just wanted to get the message out. It "matters" to me.
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
Go fuck yourself. Troll.
Oh..the US is so bad...
Fucking eurotrash are pathetic.
No problem, it'll just get shot down by King Georges Missle Defense Shield
It may be fairly simple to bring into the country. I don't know for sure, but if drug dealers can smuggle in ridiculous amounts of coke and so on in many different ways, someone may be able to smuggle in a shoulder propelled rocket.
"Save me jebus!" - Homer Simpson (btw, I'm probably talkin out of me arse)
Trident, Peacekeeper, Minuteman
Erasing screwed up moderation selection.
Never been to Japan? Australia? New Zealand?
Sounds like you only take note of places you have been educated about. Which is not very many, judging by your comments.
that would require admitting that the rest of the world might have been on to a good thing after all for the last - oh - fify or so years though. Can't see the yanks ever admitting that
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
> Never been to Japan? Australia? New Zealand?
You're absolutely right. My apologies for not including Japan, a fine old culture with many accomplishments--not the least of which is the genre of Hentai video games--in the list of nations which have actually contributed to the world.
As for Australia and New Zealand, their aboriginal peoples never accomplished anything more noteworthy than figuring out how to build tools out of sticks, so they don't count. Their current European inhabitants haven't acomplished much, either...
Chasing Amy
(We all chase Amy...)
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws"-Tacitus
I have no idea how the 5280' mile got its length.
Blame the Romans. Lacking the technology to measure minutes of arc like us modern-types, they had to make do with low-tech measurements like "one thousand paces."
--G
This tubby bitch always tells that fuckin' amy story. But he never says anything else! Snoogans.
Love,
Jay and Silent Bob
When I first read your post, I was confused as to why somebody would shoot a rocket 46 nano-meters. Then I noticed that 280,000 ft. is not 46 nm, so I thought maybe you meant km, but that would be 85 km. Then I figured it out: nautical miles. I did a google search, and found that n.m. is the correct abbreviation for nautical miles. I hate the english system.
Only the english system of units would have so many different measurements of length. Stupid footlongs, chains, fathoms, feet, inches, miles, and nautical miles. I hate it that we still use those units in this country.
To repeat, I hate the english system of measurement.
I'm off my soapbox for now.