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SpaceShipOne Flight Test
Soft writes "Scaled Composites' entry for the X-Prize, the SpaceShipOne, has had a successful first (unpowered) flight test.
The spacecraft was dropped from the White Knight carrier aircraft at 47,000 ft (14 km) and 105 kt (194 km/h, 120 mph) and touched down after a 1.1-hour glide at Mojave airport.
Photos are available."
Paedophile hunt police find human skull
AMERICAN police made further grim discoveries yesterday during their investigation into a paedophile network responsible for kidnapping girls.
A skull and bones were dug up at the home of the network's suspected ringleader, Rob Malda. It was feared that they were the remains of two teenagers who disappeared from New Orleans a year ago. The bones were unearthed after police spent six days digging at a house in Holland, Michigan, one of six properties owned by Malda.
On a visit to the house last week, Malda told police that his accomplice, Jeff Bates, had buried five bodies under a shed. Maximillion Arturo, a police spokesman in Michigan, said that no further statement would be made until families had been informed.
There was speculation last night that the remains are those of shemales from the GNAA. Malda has admitted abducting them. However, he earlier told police that he believed the two girls were still alive and being held somewhere outside Michigan.
Two eight-year-old girls abducted by Malda have been found buried at another of his properties. They starved to death while he was in prison on a theft charge. Malda's wife, Kathleen Malda, has told police that she was supposed to feed the children while her husband was in prison, but was too frightened to enter their cell.
Another two girls were found alive by police two days after Malda's arrest on Aug 13. Ten people, including Malda, his wife and an American police officer, are in custody in connection with the case.
The raped corpses of two women and parts of a third body have been discovered in a freezer at the Slashdot headquarters, along with the remains of an 80 year old woman that remain unidentified.
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We know it sinks. But, will it fly?
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I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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All went nice and clean, good photos and looks all good to go
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Flight Time: 1.1 hours / 19 minutes
The post refers to a 1.1 hour flight, which shocked me as a rather long glide from 47,000 feet, but after reading the article it seems that total flight duration was 1.1 hours and actual glide time was a more understandable 19 minutes. 19 minutes is still great from that altitude as Nasa's shuttle has a much higher sink rate, despite its greater weight.
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Hey, Eugene,
....
This is Henry McClean
And I've finished my beautiful flying machine
And I'm ringing to say
That I'm leaving and maybe
You'd like to fly with me
And hide with me, baby
Isn't it strange
How little we change
Isn't it sad we're insane
Playing the games that we know and in tears
The games we've been playing for thousands and thousands and
Pointing to the cosmic glider
"Pull this plastic glider higher
Light the fuse and stand right back"
He cried "This is my last good-bye."
Point me at the sky and tell it fly
Point me at the sky and tell it fly
Point me at the sky and tell it fly
And if you survive till two thousand and five
I hope you're exceedingly thin
For if you are stout you will have to breathe out
While the people around you breathe in
People pressing on might say
It's something that I hate to say
I'm slipping down to eat the ground
A little refuge on my brain
Point me at the sky and tell it fly
Point me at the sky and tell it fly
Point me at the sky and tell it fly
And all we've got to say to you is good-bye
It's time to go, better run and get your bags, it's good-bye
Nobody cry, it's good-bye
Crash, crash, crash, crash, good-bye...
Stephen King is worse than his movies. He keeps dieing and coming back from the dead. How many times is this guy going to be found dead before he is really dead?
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I'm happy to see that it glides. But looking at the design I have to wonder how it could possibly handle the heat and stresses of atmospheric re-entry.
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X-Prize, the SpaceShipOne
We got the X-Files, X-Windows, Windows XP, and Mac OS X.
Then Babylon 5 fans start talking about "the One", and now everybody wants to jump on the "One" bandwagon: "The One" (Neo in the Matrix), "The One" (the Jet Li movie), "AmigaOne" and now "SpaceShipOne".
Thank God they didn't name it SpaceShipZero. The distance to ZeroWing would be just to small.
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I know what Chuck Yeager would say: "Gas that beast up and let's go punch a hole in the sky with it!"
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
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You are like the guy who thought there actually was a place named "Gunpoint" where people kept getting held up.
"Stephen King" is a name used for an unknown male person. Much like "John Doe" was used in the past.
It was changed because more people where named "John Doe" than "Stephen King", so less people get scared by reading the news story.
The name used for a female, previously Jane Doe, is "Natalie Portman".
That also explains why "Natalie Portman" is often found naked and petrified, since females are more likely to be sexually molested.
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The space ship was launched at 47,000 feet and 105 knots, 10 nm east of Mojave.
How the hell did they measure that? I mean, it has an altitude of 47000 feet and a velocity 105 knots and they tell you it is 10 nanometers east of Mojave!
I reported this over 2 months ago, and it was rejected.
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That also explains why "Natalie Portman" is often found naked and petrified, since females are more likely to be sexually molested.
But why do these molestations so often involve hot grits being poured down somebody's pants?
I allways found hot cereals more nourishing when eaten.
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That's what happens when you let women out of the kitchen and they start taking over managerial positions. Look what the world has come to. Think, consider, design, re-design, test, blah blah blah. It's no wonder you can't get anything done anymore. Back when it was a man's world accomplishments were made. Technology moved forward. Men got things done.
No more. I'm telling you, don't let the women out of the kitchen, except of course to go to the bedroom.
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You see, I was out with my friends and, well, the evening didn't turn out as fun as I thought it would be. I came back home and feel like contributing to the Slashdot discussions but I thought it would be more appropriate if I asked for a permission first.
In the older press release they mentioned the entire flight would be very short - something like 30-45 minutes. But with this sort of glide rate (avg sink less than 12fps when moving 150fps?) the possibilities for "space" (subspace? suborbital?) tourism seem much more clear. A 30 minute trip doesn't sound like much fun at all, but if you're in a ship that can glide back to earth over 4 or 5 hours, that opens all sorts of new doors - like transatlantic flight, to name one. Not as many passengers as the Concorde, but an infinitely cooler trip.
A female!!!
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There's nothing wrong with an honorable manly death or three for the advancement of technology. Think about how many great men have carved their names into the history books by going out in a blaze of glory while testing aircraft. That's the way to do it. Be a man!
Alas, thanks to the feminists it is no longer a man's world. Those were the days though. The days of the straight, white, MAN!
Re-entry heating and forces aren't very bad for suborbital flights. They are horrendous for re-entry from orbit, though.
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If you only realized that creating new life is the only way to advance the human race. Not a damn suborbital spaceflight or some other goddamn tech toy.
The competitors for the X-price are one after the other dropping their capsules / spaceships out of the sky to test at least part of their re-entry profile, and Burt Rutans entry at least flies like a dream (big surprice - he designs flyingmachiens for a living, don't he?). The X-price is running until January 1, 2005 (qoute; The X PRIZE is fully funded through January 1, 2005, through private donations and backed by an insurance policy to guarantee that the $10 million is in place on the day that the prize is won), giving the teams a little more than one year to launch, overhaul their machines and launch again.
I'm getting all excited over the prosects ahead of us. Never mind if the X-price succeds in jumpstarting the space-tourism or not - we're getting a taste of what the spacerace was like when the USA and the USSR were competing about getting the first man up into space, allthought this time all the teams are playing with open cards.
I'm willing to bet all my karma that we'll have the first launch before next summer; anyone willing to bet against it?
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Spacedev completed the last and full scale test of it's rocket motor for SpaceShip One last week. So, it has a way go up now. Here's the link...
SpaceDev Performs Successful Rocket Motor Test
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is that it's sort of like living in the 1950s and experiencing all of this new space stuff for the first time. We are lucky to be living in interesting times.
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No way in hell you'd catch me hitchin a ride on such a flimsy lookin rig. I can just see the wings getting ripped off by turbulence.
I wish them and all the contestants success, though.
but there weren't many religious terrorists back then :-(
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Is it just me or are both those airplanes/spaceships ugly as hell?
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Can anyone tell me what type the chase plane is in this pic?</trainee geek>
Starship.
Well, it certainly looks like space-craft I'd happilly ride in. Yet I want the Brits building a rocket out of a cemet-mixer to win.
Do you mind, your karma has just run over my dogma.
It states clearly on the EULA that is located inside the SSO that once you've removed the shrink-wrap, you can't return it.
Wired Story on Burt Rutan and the White Knight/Space Ship One aircraft/spacecraft can be found here
There is a basic flaw in the idea of slowing down the spacecraft before reentry:
Orbital mechanics show that there is a direct link between speed and orbit height. If you slow down, your orbit height increases. If you speed up, height decreases. This makes rendevous in space tricky to say the least. The first attempts during gemini were not real successful, but they have it down to an art form now.
So in orbit you have to speed up to get down to the atmosphere. Once you get the atmospheric drag, orbital laws transfer to aerodynamic laws.
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Have you ever noticed that most "darwin award" winners are male?
The space ship was launched at 47,000 feet and 105 knots, 10 nm east of Mojave
10 nanometres in around an hour? Man, I love progress...
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Hilarious. So in what capacity are you working on this project?
Maybe this is a stupid question, but could you reduce the amount of heating during rentry by slowing the craft down much much more before it reenters?
Funny you ask. SSO has a unique design in which the wings fold during re-entry and provide an aerodynamically stable "shuttlecocking" effect such that the belly remains down. This means more drag at higher altitudes, simpler re-entry controll, etc. Then the wing converts pack and the pilot glides the vehicle in. More drag at higher altitudes also means that it is decelleration is more spread out, so the heat (potential energy -> kenetic energy -> heat) is applied at a slower rate and is less of a problem.
It is all there in the FAQ.
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Smithsonians Air and Space mag did an interview on Rutan, is pretty interesting and includes a quicktime panaorama of some of his aircraft.
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http://www.airandspacemagazine.com/ASM/Web/TWD/ru
All of Burt Rutan's designs come from his intuition of aerodynamics. He uses "exactly zero" wind tunnel testing. Makes me think all the time I spent dinking around with wind tunnels back in school was wasted.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
Why did you make the letter 'z' in X-Prize boldface?
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
you snooze you lose. I'm waiting, waiting, waiting.
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... "nm" was the abbreviation for "nautical miles" a hundred years before the term "nanometer" ever entered the English language.