Build Your Own Saturn V

Illbay writes "Space.com has a great story about a company in Colorado that has introduced an incredibly detailed scale model of the Saturn V rocket booster that flies a lot like the real thing! Apogee Components has "taken the time to research the actual vehicles and then used that information correctly in creating the kits," with a scientist from the team that designed the Delta 2 rocket on staff. I remember the old Estes model rocket version of the Saturn V back in the 60s, but they were not very detailed and very difficult to get to fly properly. Looks like Apogee might have a winner."

Comments

sigh. might as well get it out of the way.

[stonecypher]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of (-1, Redundant)

Oh, I get you now.

[Tomble]

Not being a particularly space-oriented nerd nor a Merkin, I saw the topic and just thought of Saturn 3, you know, the one where Harvey Keitel fires the bloke through the big cheese-grater into space and then makes his robot go mad and fancy the blonde bird and stuff.

Or something. Um. Hey, I should become a film reviewer, eh?

Well anyhow, I did get which one the subject was about after a moment or two, so no harm done (and no offence meant to our trans-atlantic cousins, BTW ;).

Pronouncing binary

[ChrisZuma]

Today my educated friend and I were teaching my less-privileged friend how to read binary, because he thought he was a nerd, and didnt know it (had to be fixed). While teaching him, we got into an argument about how to pronounce binary numbers. Are they read right-to-left like a standard base 10 number, or left-to-right like some heathens think? For example, would 11001 be read one-zero-zero-one-one or one-one-zero-zero-one?

Re:Trick or Treat, Negro Style

[gujo-odori]

Oops, that should have been "would lie about an athlete's skill" not "would like." That'll teach me to submit without previewing. Doh!

Re:Scale

[JabberWokky]

wooOOSH!

And that was the sound of *my* joke going right over your head (hint: electrons don't orbit - in fact, they don't move in the classic macroscopic sense. That's why the whole "nucleus with the electrons orbiting around it", i.e., the Bohr model, has been abandoned for many decades now. Thus a single atom is *not* a model of the solar system).

Sigh. I had to explain it. I knew I would. And the guy who got it and corrected you by pointing out that I misspelled 'Bore' is now moderated -1, Troll.

--
Evan

Re:Trick or Treat, Negro Style

[Illbay]

After all that bloviating, though, the fact is that Rush was RIGHT. It doesn't matter that Warren Moon had already "made it" as a black quarterback. It doesn't matter that, even before him, Doug Williams had made it as a black quarterback, or that Joe Gilliam and James Harris played even before him (though not to the same level of success), or that today there are no less than SEVEN black starting QBs in the NFL including McNabb.

That was NEVER the point of Limbaugh's comments.

Limbaugh, rather, was stating that were it not for the "unwritten rules" of sports journalism, Donovan McNabb would NEVER be considered a "great quarterback." The "unwritten rules" include an "affirmative action" clause whereby a mediocre black quarterback has to be "propped up" and made to appear brilliant, because there "aren't enough of them."

And Rush could've named yet another mediocre QB talent who happens to be black: Kordell Stewart who now plays for the Bears. Even though Stewart has had a very disappointing career--spending about as much time on the injured list as on the playing field in Pittsburgh and now Chicago--you typically have always heard HIM propped up as well.

Stewart's hurt again, so he's out for the season. And he and McNabb have something ELSE in common: All the other black starting QBs, such as Daunte Culpepper of the Vikings, Aaron Brooks of the Saints, and the best of the whole lot--in fact, one of the best QBs in the league--Steve McNair of the Titans, play in small markets that the national (read: bicoastal) media doesn't give a hoot about.

McNabb plays in Philadelphia, one of the top ten TV markets.

And THAT'S why he gets touted as a "premier" QB, even though he ranks in the bottom half of the league in QB rating.

So once again, RUSH WAS RIGHT, even though the Left has to lie about what he said and about what it all means. He was right, and nothing that anyone else has to write about it--including me--can alter that FACT.

Re:Trick or Treat, Negro Style

[Illbay]

Let's face it, fans and sportscasters alike enjoy watching a quarterback who can scramble and can turn a play that looks like a sack into a big play to get positive yardage.

If that were true, then it would be "all Steve McNair, all the time."

But the following facts are pertinent:

1. McNair is a GREAT quarterback--probably one of the three or four best in the league--and so he doesn't need the Affirmative Action props from the media elitists.

2. McNair plays in a small market in the South, not a large market in the Northeast, so he is irrelevant as far as generating the ratings that the media elitists covet.

No, Rush was right: McNabb gets the ink and the airwaves because he is a mediocre black quarterback and needs propping up. He's an affirmative action case.