Slashdot Mirror
Water-Rocket-Powered Cars
Jim Gallant writes "Big cheap thrills for very little money are yours by making water rocket powered cars. They're fun! They're hilarious! Amaze your friends."
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
The server seemed shaky, so I put my subscription to good use and set up a mirror.
It is at: http://www.mskf.org/rocket_mirror/
0x0D 0x0A
No ones ever heard of Air Hogs?? Screw cars.... Jets R0X0R!
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
Looks like they could've used.. a uh.. water rocket powered server! Sorry.
for the water powered server.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I'd rather higher a hooker.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
Are these the top-secret photos of the nuclear arsenal North Korea claims to have?
So, what would happen if you used gas instead of water, and had a dozen flints dragging behind the car on a distance/anti-wheelie bar? Now THAT would be fun.
err Slashdot Effect?
Damn that one crumpled fast.
Who posted that link, that was probably hoseted on some dudes DSL.
Really there is no reason why Slashdot doesn't mirror a site on this server for a few days. I mean on those obviously home grown sites especially,
"If I were bound by all laws everywhere I'm sure I would have committed a capital crime somewhere."
It seems as if the hampster on the wheel that was running the webserver needed water to live! Sadly, it was all used up to run the rocket car instead. Oh well, C'est la vie.
A rocket powered enema! From constipated to diareha in 5 seconds flat!
Anyone ever made a dry-ice bomb ??
Im sure you could somehow use a modified version to power a car/rocket.
Any Ideas ?
Yes, its the most incorrect use of bittorrent possible! A mirror of a site with some pictures. All tar'd for your enjoyment.
:)
rocketcar.tar.torrent
At least I selected a proper chunk size
Karma: SELECT `karma` FROM `users` WHERE `userid`=138474;
Isn't it amazing what you can accomplish by ommiting one single word, such as TOY!
This reminds me of that old story about a guy attaching a jet to his Chevy and killing himself, thus meriting a Darwin Award.
Except the guy with the water rocket car seems far more clever. I want to make one of these myself!
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Red-Bull powered rocket car. First generations always suck
Sigs are for hypocrits
Nuts to that. I'd love to see all the Ford Expedition drivers in my town strap big freaking rockets to their gas-guzzling monster trucks and launch themselves and their screaming brats straight to Mars.
Plus, I bet the mist from the water rocket exhaust would make a purty rainbow. Everybody wins!
In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
from a little girl at a goodwill store.
Which he then mutilated and then proceeded to launch off a dangerous ramp. He probably got the attention of the whole trailer park.
If I was that little girl, I'd be kicking him in the nads.
Fucker.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
How did they compress the water ? a pump ?
...but for my money nothing beats the classic.
Does this guy's kid have a problem?
1st I would have given almost anything to shoot, blow up, or melt (or anything else you can think of) a G.I. Joe
and 2nd why does he have a Barby car
I didn't know barbie was into muscle cars :)
Thank god that site got /.ed so quickly!
;) I must
:P
<concerned voice>
As a concerned parent(-to-be-someday
warn the slashdot editors that they should take more care when posting such recklessly dangerous articles on their website! Tsk tsk tsk!
Geez, imagine if some naive slashdotter were to try that at home...no doubt he'll get carried away...start using larger bottles...larger barbie car...moving on to a decent size drum...then mounting the whole thing on an old car frame...then the ramp is deployed...the pressure rises...neighbours houses are perforated...and <*bang*> suddenly Slashdot will be the first website ever to be responsible for launching soggy geeks into orbit!!
Yes, it could happen...
It's spelled diarrhea you idiotic bastard.
If you're going to repeat his experiment, do yourself a favor and install the water bottle at an oblique angle (perhaps 45 degrees towards the front) so that the center of mass is (closer to being) directly across from the force application point. This will reduce torque around the body, and make for more enjoyable ramp jumping action!!!
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
http://devilsbsd.mg2.org/waterrocket/
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
higher a hooker
I'm imagining some sort of perverted sex act involving an estes rocket motor.
As someone who has been on the Water Rocket mailing list for years, this site was discussed several years ago. Still, it is fun and cute.
I notice a few design flaws, namely the bottle is pointing straight up! Talk about bad aerodynamics(no wonder it sucked at jumping), would it hurt to somehow put it at an angle?
Too many zeros, not enough ones
Comment removed based on user account deletion
And I liked them even if they weren't the same color as me, or they were limb/head-challenged. It taught me to be more tolerant of others.
::gwwwwarwl::
And those I can't tolerate I kick in the nads. Or shins, if they are nads-challenged. Sometimes both.
I always wanted the barbie car. That fucker has to flaunt my childhood around violated with metal valve fittings.
That's a nads, shin, and fist to the solar plexus.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Forget dry ice, people race cars powered by compressed CO2 cartridges. They can be had for $.50 or less each, if you shop around. Stores better than dry ice.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
They're slashdotted! Amaze your family with the hilarious error pages!
The are several compressed air powered toys on the market as well. The brand "air hogs" seems to be the most common. They have planes, rockets, cars, etc. Here is a pic of some of their products AirHog Products.
The plane in particular is a lot of fun and will travel ~100m.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
When I was 10 or so, I made something like this. I took a 2-liter pop bottle, turned it sideways, and duct taped it to a set of wheels from an old plastic train. Then I hot-glued part of a pen cap into a hole in the bottom of the bottle, and connected a hose from the pen cap to the side (now the bottom) of the bottle. In order to make it work, I opened the lid and filled it about halfway with water. Then I attached a bike pump to the pen cap, and pushed in some air. When the pump was removed, the air pressure pushed the water up through the hose and out the back, shooting the car forward 3 meters or so. The only problem I had was that I could never get the hot glue to seal well around the pen cap, so it would break loose after a few runs. All in all, it was pretty cool.
so is this the homebrew cruise missile everyone is talking about? :P
It is cheaper to power car with triple distilled vodka.
Here's the google cache
Kevin
"It's not the cough that carries you off, it's the coffin they carry you off in" O. Nash
SERVER BUSY.
Sheesh.
My bet is that they will not do that until someone sues them.
Along much the same lines, here's one a friend showed me once (and I've done myself).
:)
:^))
Take an old 2-Liter, make sure it's dry. Create a small hole in the center of the lid, about big enough to insert the head of a Bic pen (3/16" ish). Take a capful of rubbing alcohol, dunp it in the bottle, screw the cap back on and swirl it around until it all evaporates. Then, take it OUTSIDE (preferably at night) and hold it in one hand, cap down. Take a lighter with the other hand and touch it to the hole in the cap. Instant rocket. The cool thing about this is that at night you can watch a blue flame wave travel up the bottle as it goes up.
Some important notes:
1) Make sure the hole in the cap is big enough or it blows up as the pressure can't escape fast enough
2) If it blows up, you didn't hear this from me
3) I'm told not to try this with 5-Gal plastic water bottles (the hole isn't big enough)
4) Rubbing alcohol with higher percentage alcohol is better (there are at least two types commonly available here)
5) Cycle fresh air into the bottle before re-launching
Have Fun
Usual disclaimer - this is for entertainment purposes only - so if you blow yourself up, it's not my fault (but make sure to do it spectacularly in front of friends because this is for entertainment
Show off your new water-rocket powered cars, zero to slashdot in under 10 seconds.
As Reverend Lovejoy spake (reading Homer's wedding vows):
"Do you Marge take Homer in richness and poorness, poorness is underlined, in impotence and im-potence, in quiet solitude or blasting across the alkali flats in a jet powered monkey navigated...and it goes on like this..."
Call 1-976-PERVERT
I thought they were going to use a real car
.............. kris
"I thought I could organize freedom. How Scandinavian of me."
There's this car...that runs on water! It runs on water man!
You can't take the sky from me...
she'll be back. Read up about the Phoenix Force.
Also, change your tampons every 4 hours to avoid toxic shock syndrome
lol
::confused::
classic. but seriously, what is the deal? You say you want barbie, they won't give it to you. You grow out of it, and they push it on you.
Did your parents ever play that trick on you with Gi-Joe or legos or anything?
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Since it took me awhile to get into the mirrors I saw, here's another. http://omerta.impractical.net/water_car/
We actually did pretty much the same thing for a 'Design and Technology' project in high school. The team who got their car to go the furthest won a small cash prize. Of course on our side of the planet there's this thing called aerodynamics so the bottles were mounted horizontally. Beyond that the only secret to getting maximum velocity out of these things is to experiment and find the optimum volume of water, so that you run out of proppellant at the same time as the pressure runs out.
Must be a slow day for Slashdot...
When I was seven years old, we glued water rockets (the old kind from the 70's) on to our tonka Trucks. We had a water rocket powered dump truck that was kinda cool, but the fastest one was the Corgicar porche that had a water rocket tied to the roof with hose clamps. I wish I had pictures of these, we did this back in the early 70's.
Stupid Humans.....
One of the fascinating articles that John Young linked to in his invaluable Cryptome a few years ago was a PDF of some new portable missles -- sadly, I've lost the original file.
In this there was a tube-launched missle that worked much like a water rocket. The front half of the missle was the warhead, and the back half was filled with a relatively (compared to water) high-density gel. At the front of the gel section, in about the middle of the missle, was a small explosive.
On launch, the explosive would fire, generating gas that would propel the gel out of a nozzle in the back of the rocket at high velocity. The final speed of the missle was on the order of 300 knots -- quite slow for a rocket.
The big upside of this, though, was that it could be fired indoors stealthily. There would be no huge cloud of smoke at the launch point -- there would be very little indication where the rocket had come from except for a large mess of jelly on a wall.
Pretty wild.
thad
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
Yes, he has. And he's written a very nice explanation of why he decided against it in the FAQ, dumbass.
The pattern for the "Soviet Russia" jokes (and I believe that when that Smirnoff guy started them, they were "In Soviet Union" jokes) is reversing the order of things; I think the cannonical example is "In Soviet Union, cheeseburger eats you!". So since the song goes "Today's Tom Sawyer he gets high on you", it should be "In Soviet Union (Russia), you get high on today's Tom Sawyer."
Just to be pedantic.
The Barbie RV! That thing should hold a couple of bottles.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
LOL
Water-powered rocket-cars, now THAT would have been something!
we come in peace / shoot to kill
Why have one of those when you can have a super karate monkey death car?
I read it as cats...
;-)
Now water-rocket powered cats would be something to see....
http://www.outsideconnection.com/rockets/rocketcar .htm
[outsideCONNECTION.com]
Too Many Users
There are too many CONNECTED users. Please try again later.
HA!HA!
http://ast.leeds.ac.uk/~knapp/rockets/ :)
they have a movie of a MANNED WATER ROCKET FLIGHT.
yes sir
.. except it's Oil powered and I drive it to work.
Live web cams
(I owned both) the car was filled with water, and then pumped with the included bicycle pump looking thing.
I don't think it got anywhere near this kind of speed tho
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Is anyone else disappointed that it was a toy car? I was hoping for a real water-rocket-powered car.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
Good God! Now I just feel old.
Jean Grey's death kicks off probably the most famous story arc in X-Men history. Were you paying attention at the end of the movie? You know, the part where the camera is flying over the water of the new lake and you see these nebulous green wings?
That's the Phoenix. Imagine Jean Grey with the power to rip the planet in half. And then for an encore do the same thing to our sun.
Now imagine her going bad. Very bad. And wearing a black leather corset and thigh high boots. Can you say, "Spanking?"
You ain't seen nothin' yet, child.
Moekandu
Yes, I can't believe I'm responding to a -1 Offtopic either.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Have another Scooby snack, Scoob!
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Hehehhh... the first thing I thougt was that somebody has entirely too much time on his hands. And then I saw the smiles on those kids' faces, and remembered some of the things my Dad did for us when we were kids and it all made sense. I tell folks that I was a kid before they had technology, and televisions all had tubes and most were B&W, and you had to peddle real fast to get 'em to run. That last part is, of course, bullshit, but not too far off the mark. All the best, - Alph