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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I PROPOSE SOMETHING DIFFERENT by Jane+Q.+Public · 2008-01-21 07:57 · Score: 0, Troll

I think they should drop rocks from the Space Station, and make bets on who can get closest to a particular target.

Of course, if anyone is to track the results, the rocks must either be very large rocks, or covered with metal, or both.

But it might be fun.

I suggest, for the first contest, they try to hit whatever passes for a Capitol Building in Iran.