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High Power RocketCam Videos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the if-you-got-the-money-honey dept.

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."

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  1. What happens by jki · · Score: 5, Funny
    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

    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?

  2. What happens? by JanusFury · · Score: 5, Funny
    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?
    It gets posted on the slashdot front page and somebody makes a joke about {Bill Gates/Microsoft/Windows/RIAA/MPAA, chooose one}? Oh, that and you scare some wildlife. You can't launch a 200 pound rocket without scaring the shit out of SOMETHING.
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  3. "by far the best I've seen" by nakaduct · · Score: 5, Funny
    The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community.
    And yet, still vastly inferior to the output of the "strap a camera to a showerhead" community.

  4. Re:Time to put away childish things... by Tailhook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wouldn't it be better and more rewarding to give the money to charity than to just blow up DV camcorders.

    No.

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  5. Re:if only... by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, you'd need a separate server & bandwidth for the camera feed, so that we can actually see the slashdotting. Then we need a camera (with its own server & bandwidth) to see the blinkenlights on the first camera's server so that we can see it being slashdotted. Then we need a third camera to see the blinkenlights on the second camera's server...

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  6. Re:Cheap shots... again. by herrd0kt0r · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. I wish we could have taped this... by Malorian · · Score: 5, Funny
    A few years ago, a friend had a nasty split with his g/f not to long before Guy Fawkes night and she'd been foolish enough to leave her beloved 'Piglet' cuddly toy...

    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 :)

  8. Re:Nah. This is what *really* happens... by TheAlmightyQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool.

    If only everyone named Gates could create a web server that could take a slashdotting.

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