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Build Your Own Cruise Missile

WegianWarrior writes "Bruce Simpson, the man behind one of the more interesting site about pulsejets on the web, has launched a project to build a US$5000 DIY cruisemissile - just to prove that it can be done, since some said his earlier article about it was off the peg. Bruce has also designed and placed on his site a non-weld pulsejet you can build with simple tools, a 2D airflow modeling rig and a new valve/injector design for conventional pulsejets (according to the first page on his site, this new design is placed in the public domain)." We linked to his pulsejet pages about two years ago.

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  1. Wow by SugoiMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny
    And I thought sites with pipe bomb recipes were revolutionary! Man, will Mr. Smith be suprised when he opens his mail box this time.

    The Monkey Pages: Not just another personal site...okay, so I lie.

    1. Re:Wow by trotski · · Score: 4, Funny

      Science in a big waste of time anyway,

      people should be studying for their MBA's and try hard to get football scholarships instead of wasteing they're time trying to learn about the world.

      Szeeesh!

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  2. Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    An anti-spam solution that's bound to work....

  3. hmm by SHEENmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet I could get some nerds to build one of these and send a hamster into space.

    As the apprentice of Prof. Chaos said, "SIMPSONS DID IT!!!!"

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    1. Re:hmm by UnixRevolution · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's a football field either way, half as long as a VW Beetle, weighs as much as 4 cowboyneals, and gets to its target quicker than a win2k server box can be slashdotted :P

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    2. Re:hmm by maxentius · · Score: 3, Funny

      I just send them up
      I don't know where they come down
      That's not my department
      Said Werner von Braun
      --Tom Lehrer

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    3. Re:hmm by Natalie's+Hot+Grits · · Score: 2, Funny

      'I never understood how Americans can call that game "football"'

      Because you kick it(once or twice per game), silly :P

      heh

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  4. HAHAHA!!!! by trotski · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I'll show my loser neighbour down the street who's boss! One tomahawk coming up!

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  5. What kind of stickers will be on it? by Mr.+Arbusto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously,

    Intel Inside

    AMD

    Designed for Windows 95

    Though, personally I like a peace sign.

    1. Re:What kind of stickers will be on it? by Some+Dumbass... · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ob Simpson's Quote:

      "Caution: Aim Away From Face"

      (Though of course, this message is a bit underspecified. Presumably they mean the firer's face, not the target's face :)

    2. Re:What kind of stickers will be on it? by EricTheMad · · Score: 3, Funny

      I prefer what's written on the bussiness end of a Claymore mine:

      "This side towards enemy"

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    3. Re:What kind of stickers will be on it? by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'd prefer that the back say "Other side toward enemy". The front should say "If you can read this, you're too close."

  6. One question.. by Lord+Fren · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where do you put the warhead? Some of my Korean friends were asking...

    1. Re:One question.. by UnixRevolution · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm guessing "In the Missile." However, i'm not an expert.

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  7. Time for big brother to stop this by Blaine+Hilton · · Score: 3, Funny
    Well at least we know what happened when he stop publishing his daily newsletter.

    How do you want to calculate today?

  8. Hmmm... by MacDork · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bill Gates: "Hmmm... 50,000,000,000/5,000 = 10,000,000 cruise missles... Imagine a beowolf cluster of these you hippies!"

  9. man.. by ewhenn · · Score: 4, Funny

    At a million dollars a pop, the US govt. sure gets ripped off on theirs.

    1. Re:man.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      And that's just for the toilet seat!

  10. emails by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Not surprisingly, that piece has produced a significant amount of feedback from the tens of thousands of people who have read it so far"

    I am a felow hobbiest, please sned me detailed plans.
    FROM: moustashiod_villian@yahoo.com

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    1. Re:emails by delta407 · · Score: 2, Funny
      I am a felow hobbiest
      What makes you think you're hobbier than everyone else?

      Hmm?
  11. Re:Air force substitute? by Rolo+Tomasi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uh-Oh, New Zealand building Weapons of Mass Destruction. Next thing you know Osama has been spotted in Wellington. I bet the B2s are already being fueled up as I write this.

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  12. Now Bush by hengist · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will declare New Zealand to be part of the Axis of Evil.

  13. Re:He talked to military folks, eh? by EinarH · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...., so when threat is imminent they can shut down the GPS bands in the area.
    Which of the to following scenarios sounds most likely:

    1.
    Radar operator in military:-God damit! OMFG! There is CM heading for the Washington prob. the White House! I'm caling the President RIGHT NOW so he can shut down the civilian GPS system.
    *Calls White House by dialing 666-WWHITE HOUSE EMERGENCY HOT-LINE*
    President: -Howdy! What's up sergeant?
    *Radar op. explains*
    President: -Ok. I press the button that triggers the civil GPS-system on and of, it right here om my side on the desk.
    *President push button and civil GPS-system is offline. Terrorist CM crash.*
    Total time from detection to shutdown: Less than 2 min.

    or

    2.
    Radar operator in military:-God damit! OMFG! There is CM heading for the Washington prob. the White House! I'm caling my [Insert highest ranking officer he can call].
    *Calls [highest ranking officer]* Highest ranking fficer: -Holy shit! OMFG this ain't no test or exercise!
    *trigger all the possible terrorist alarms*
    *Calls Chief of Staff in Pentagon (or whoever is in charge there)*
    Chief of Staff: -Holy shit. OMFG we are running out of time, fuck the President, not time to get in touch with him. I'm taking the decision: We have to shut down the civil GPS system who guids the CM.
    *Calls [whatever agency who is in charge of this system]
    Chief of Staff: -Incomming terorist CM in Washington. Sut down the civil GPS system NOW!
    At the agency: The techdude: -OK.
    *Techdude writes on his keyboard : "shutdown -h now" (or similar command)*
    *Civil GPS system goes down and CM crash*
    Total time from detection to shutdown: Somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes. (wildly guessed)

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  14. I plan on using mine by Rhinobird · · Score: 2, Funny

    My cruise missile is for hunting and self defense only.

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  15. Quick! by Rhinobird · · Score: 4, Funny

    We must slashdot this page before the information gets into the wrong hands!

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  16. But what about... by Guppy06 · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Tom Cruise Missile?

    Help! The Scientologists are after me!

  17. Re:Doesn't anyone know what .nz means? by Loki_1929 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Doesn't anyone know what .nz means?"

    That we'll soon be liberating New Zealand?

    *rimshot*

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  18. Re:He talked to military folks, eh? by zulux · · Score: 2, Funny


    *Techdude writes on his keyboard : "shutdown -h now" (or similar command)*


    Thankfully it wasen't Windown

    *Techdude clicks Start->My Computer->My GPS Systems->North America

    *Clippy "It's looks like your shutting down your GPS system"

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  19. Yeah? by SystematicPsycho · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do you guys really think that countries in the world don't have a clue on how to build cruise misslies?

    Comrad - slashdot has posted someone elses article on how to build cruise missiles.

    El Presidente - eh? well you got on that browser and dl that material and have it sent to our defense division immediately. This is just the breakthrough we've been looking for,

    Comrad - Si Si!

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  20. Yer right by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    (1)people should be studying for their MBA(2)'s and try hard to get football scholarships instead of wast(3)eing the(4)y're time trying to learn about the world.

    No kidding.

  21. Re:Anyone know how scalable these are? by SEWilco · · Score: 2, Funny
    Can you build a rocket engine without a turbopump?

    Yes, you just let the helium flow through the reactor core and it tends to expand through the wider exhaust tubes beyond.

    Yes, you just have to use a piston pump.

    Yes, you just have to launch far enough up for the ion stream to not get contaminated.

    Yes, you just make sure the intake valve can slap shut fast enough for most of the pulse to be forced backward.

    Yes, you just throw the nuclear propellant fast enough so it detonates at the right distance from the blast plate before you fall too far.

    Yes, you just use metal wicks to draw the liquid oxydizer and fuel into the combustion chamber.

    Yes, you just make sure that you get enough stored energy from the previous pulse so your lasers have enough for several attempts at igniting the next fusion pellets.

    Yes, you just weld a bunch of ramjets together.

    Yes, you just pinch the gathered plasma into several small streams before forcing it together in the large heating chamber.

    Yes, you just have to have enough springs and golf balls.

    Yes, you just have to spin the pinwheel emitter fast enough so the ignition cups have enough fuel before they are in the rearward position and ignited.

    Yes, you just have to wriggle the handle on the pump fast enough.

  22. Re:So why aren't these attacks happening? by kcelery · · Score: 2, Funny

    Their new plan seems to be sending people with SARS to cough downtown. Cost less then $5,000.

  23. smartest dumb person by {tele}machus_*1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Given the hypersensitive climate in the U.S. today, why would one try to build a weapon of mass destruction, just to prove it could be done. I can see it now in the CNN headline: "President Bush declared today that Bruce Simpson is a threat to national security and bombed his house."