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SpaceX Successfully Tests Nine-Engine Cluster
the_other_chewey writes "At their test facility in Texas, SpaceX, the privately funded space-flight company, have successfully tested their nine-engine cluster which is planned to provide the heavy lifting capability for their Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy rockets.
The firing lasted three minutes (a full 'mission duty cycle,' i.e. a simulated launch) under full power, delivering 3.8MN (or 855,000 lbs.) of thrust. SpaceX have made a video of the test available. The Waco Tribune has a short report about it, with comments by locals."
I read, "The Waco Tribune has short report about it, with comments by lolcats."
I need either more sleep or less internet.
Billy Mays embedded the thrusters in Mighty Putty. They won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
-=Bang Bang=-
Well, if you had read some of the comments, many of them already are complaining.
.. I much prefer this comment:
"What kind of toxins are we being exposed too!!!11!"
Yeah
"By Jermiah November 23, 2008 12:24 AM | Link to this I quite enjoyed it. Nothing like a glass a scotch a lawn chair a cigar and 1.5 million foot pounds of pressure to make someone feel alive."
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order- Ed Howdershelt Via Tass
But gollum bit one off and fell into a volcano.
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As you can see, it's bolted to the launchpad, which is in return bolted to earth.
They actually tried to move earth into a higher orbit to cure global warming, to it makes sense the rocket didn't seem to be moving relative to earth, but earth did together with the rocket.
Why you ask? To avoid planet Nibiru ofcourse.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
I'm surprised they didn't name the rocket the Beowulf 9.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
I quite enjoyed it. Nothing like a glass a scotch a lawn chair a cigar and 1.5 million foot pounds of pressure to make someone feel alive.
Man, gotta love the smell of burning proppelant in the morning. I love this one:
Wow..Just observing the numerous misspelled words in your posts makes me realize why you idiots thought that the aliens were coming!
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
The price of gas must've made the test irresistible..
I am so angry at SpaceX! My children and I were very scared. How dare them conduct this test without letting us know! We live across from the McGregor Airport and our entire house shook and trembled. The sky was on fire. My 11-year-old son said he âoethought the sun was exploding.â I grabbed a jug of apple juice and made my kids go into my closet fearing the worse.
So, when you fear for the worse, you go into your closet with a jug of apple juice? "One apple a day keeps the doomsday away."
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
The headline in today's Arachnid Advertiser states:
Biped Puppets Successfully Complete Engine Test. The Grand Plan Still On Schedule.
Glad to see they passed the test, or at least didn't blow up.
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom, sooner or later. BOOM!"
the privately funded space-flight company, have successfully tested their nine-engine cluster
But can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? If only global _cooling_ was our problem..
You just got troll'd!
What? Your closets aren't built to withstand the force of an exploding sun? Sheesh. Such shoddy construction work on houses these days.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
No. I follow Indiana Jone's way of hiding into nuclear-proof refrigerators.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
"I live in Valley Mills, just taking the last steak off the grill. Space-X shook the T-Bone off the grill hit my dog on the head, he thought I smacked him, he bit my ankle. My wife just getting into our water bed shook up a huge wave, threw her out of bed. She blamed it all on me. Milk in frig.is now butter-milk, the cats,will not leave the kitchen. My son couldnâ(TM)t hear his stereo, cranked it up, blew the windows out of the neighbors house. Guess Iâ(TM)ll be replacing them on Sunday. It was a great light show!"
Moving the Earth might have move us out of the way of that intergalactic highway that is being planned.
I work for the TX facility. The concrete tripod is 120' tall and the legs are 10' in diameter. The stage is 85' tall and 12' in diameter. You can see it 25 miles away when you are driving to work. It is pretty awesome (-;
For those of us who don't live in backward countries like Myanmar and Liberia...
I work for the TX facility. The concrete tripod is 36.6m tall and the legs are 3m in diameter. The stage is 26m tall and 3.6m in diameter. You can see it 45km away when you are driving to work. It is pretty awesome (-;