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High Power RocketCam Videos
HaveNoMouth writes "What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button? The incredible movies (with sound!) at Gates Bros. Rocketry tell the tale. The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community. They have a nice gallery of still photos too.
If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."
Tens of thousands of USD is blown up in the air and converted into a couple of movies which can be shown on Slashdot so that we can make insightful comments like this?
if only they could strap a DVcam to the desk pointing at the blinkenlights on their server as the poor thing gets slashdotted to hell and back
You put movies with sound up on your site and someone links to it on Slashdot? The server goes down hard!
Actually, I'm impressed - I'm downloading one of the mpegs right now and getting it at a pretty good speed.
Russ
Information doesn't want to be anthropomorphized anymore.
I guess it'd be an improvement over strapping someone to a rocket then hoping they survived the landing so they could tell you about it.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
So I build this nice, trim little single stage rocket (solid fuel), and my brother talks me into strapping another zero delay motor onto the bottom....it went fine until the tagged on motor lit the main motor....the rocket tumbled just for an instant, and when the main motor fired, the rocket was horizontal...it quickly made it to a nearby freeway and took out an aged Mustang. We figured since lunch was almost over we'd just as soon head back to the lab and quietly call it a day. A camera on that one would have shown one ticked off Mustang owner, I'm sure.
:)
Don't know if I have the nerve to sacrifice a DV camera...but maybe someone else's camera would be ok
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Oh, the videos of the rockets are OK too.
*rimshot*
What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button?
:)
You prove to NASA that it can be done cheaply?
-mo
strap a camera to a flying toy and fly it into the showers at a local school
Get the best of both, people freaking out hilariously and lots of h4w7 n3kk1d gur1z 8-). You could even have it blow up afterward, but that would ruin the whole video thing.
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Wouldn't it be better and more rewarding to give the money to charity than to just blow up DV camcorders.
No.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Yeah, I surprised! Those are the best damn dildo commercials I've ever seen!
Is it really really neccessary to have a cheap shot at MS no matter how little the post might be related?
yes.
Why don't we just have a default sig "Windoze sucks, Linux rulez."?
we do.
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Windoze sucks, Linux rulez.
If you don't live in the USA you are a terrorist. We will bomb you eventually.
Piglet was firmly taped to a display firework rocket (one of those damn huge ones), head facing the sky before being fired into the sky. Can you say "Pigs in Spaaaaaaace!" ;) :)
I wish we could have had a Piglets eye view of it, we kept finding bits of piglet in nearby streets for days
I'm sorry, but I'm thinking of those FoxTrot comics where Marcus and Jason attach the video camera to the rocket which upsets the balance and it flies straight at them. Something along those lines happaned to me once.
The sad part is, that won't even be a joke once GWB gets his way...
I'd like to see a camera strapped on the side of one of the cruise missiles. Well, I guess they already have those. Never mind.
Which, on a good enough story, would result in the world's first recursive slashdotting.
political_news.c: warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool.
If only everyone named Gates could create a web server that could take a slashdotting.
I hope you're not pretending to be evil while secretly being good. That would be dishonest.
He's also got a room full of Japanese women tied up by his personal rope master, Masahiro. That sounds pretty cool me. I could only imagen though if a video of Billy Boy bouncing on it was posted to slashdot.
What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button?
They have to get a new web hosting provider because the old one gets slashdotted, blames them for the outage, and kicks them out?
I've been seeing these films on Roadrunner vs Coyote, though they look a little chalky.
"If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."
:)
What? Windows for Warheads?
For one, JVC and Canon camcorder models mentioned in the site get shock certified at 0.6 Mach speed, with forces exceeding 1G. Wow!
The speed is impressive, but I certainly hope it could handle more than 1G. Otherwise, you couldn't pick it up off a table without breaking it.