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Water-Rocket-Powered Cars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dremel-multitool-comes-in-handy dept.

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."

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  1. Mirror by mskfisher · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

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    1. Re:Mirror by caino59 · · Score: 5, Informative

      another mirror.

      for good measure.

  2. Torrent Mirror by SeanTobin · · Score: 4, Informative

    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 :)

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  3. Another Mirror by Devil's+BSD · · Score: 5, Informative
    I set up another mirror, just in case.

    http://devilsbsd.mg2.org/waterrocket/

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  4. Re:No Darwin Award Here by 1nsane0ne · · Score: 5, Informative
    Ermm just to clarify for everyone before they click the link, right on the page this story is described to be an urban legend.

    "This Darwin Award is the most popular of all time. Considered true for years, it was later debunked as an Urban Legend by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The story fooled the judges in 1995, so JATO has been grandfathered in as a Darwin Award Winner."

    Not that you were claiming it was true, just pasting for everyone who's too lazy to scroll below the darwin award's voting stuff.

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  5. Site is several years old by MonkeyBoyo · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:No Darwin Award Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Whilst thefted from someone elses post a couple of days ago, this guy claims to be responsible for the origins of the rocket-car-into-cliff story. A really detailed and amusing read.

  7. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Informative

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  8. CO2 cartridge by Ayanami+Rei · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  9. Re:Is it just me by pdbogen · · Score: 2, Informative

    RTFA. He bought the barbie car from Good Will. $0.99, same as 7 packages of Ramen.

  10. Compressed Air by heli0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  11. It Slashdotted everywhere by Lucky+Kevin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here's the google cache

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