Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 21, 2008 @03:32AM from the spitwads-are-next dept.

SK writes "The University of Tokyo and the Japan folded paper (origami) plane society hopes to fly a paper airplane from the International Space Station to Earth. The plane will be 30-40cm long and weigh about 30 grams. A University of Tokyo research group has successfully designed a special paper plane model that was able to withstand a Mach 7 high velocity stream for 10 seconds. The experimental plane was about one-fifth the size and withstood temperatures as high as 300C without burning up." Unfortunately for most of us reading this, the original source is all in japanese.

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Re:Hey guys! by torqer · 2008-01-21 05:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

You're running the colors of looking really dumb? ...

And I guess if you knew the answer to your own question you would be all 'red' up?
Insensitive by syntap · 2008-01-21 05:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Unfortunately for most of us reading this, the original source is all in japanese.

I am Japanese, you insensitive clod.