GoPro Footage Gives You A Rocket's-Eye View Of Spaceflight (gizmag.com)

Eloking quotes a report from Gizmag: Action cameras have been strapped to dogs, chainsaw-wielding drones and everything in between, but there's a new benchmark for homegrown heroes and their action-cam videos courtesy of UP Aerospace. Having strapped a GoPro HERO 4 to the outside of its SpaceLoft-10 sounding rocket, the company launched it into the thermosphere, gathering some footage that's simply out of this world along the way. The footage is incredible and begs the question: how did they fasten the cameras to a rocket traveling at 3,796 mph? You can watch the footage here on YouTube.

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"begs the question"...-5 style points

[turkeydance]

English judge voted for disqualification

Re: "begs the question"...-5 style points

[Anonymous Coward]

No, there is only one meaning to the phrase "begs the question". What's wrong with saying "raises the question"? Those two extra letters hurt to type?

Re: "begs the question"...-5 style points

[Anonymous Coward]

Begging the Question
petitio principii

(also known as: assuming the initial point, assuming the answer, chicken and the egg argument, circulus in probando, circular reasoning [form of], vicious circle)

Description: Any form of argument where the conclusion is assumed in one of the premises. Many people use the phrase “begging the question” incorrectly when they use it to mean, “prompts one to ask the question”. That is NOT the correct usage. Begging the question is a form of circular reasoning.

Logical Forms:

        Claim X assumes X is true.
        Therefore, claim X is true.

Example #1:

Paranormal activity is real because I have experienced what can only be described as paranormal activity.

Explanation: The claim, “paranormal activity is real” is supported by the premise, “I have experienced what can only be described as paranormal activity.” The premise presupposes, or assumes, that the claim, “paranormal activity is real” is already true.

Example #2:

The reason everyone wants the new "Slap Me Silly Elmo" doll is because this is the hottest toy of the season!

Explanation: Everyone wanting the toy is the same thing as it being "hot," so the reason given is no reason at all—it is simply rewording the claim and trying to pass it off as support for the claim.

Exception: Some assumptions that are universally accepted could pass as not being fallacious.

People like to eat because we are biologically influenced to eat.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/53/Begging_the_Question

Really?

[Qbertino]

So a rocket breack up into 4+ parts and 4 of those stay in 30 meter proximity to each other, floating in space? With the right angle for the go pro to film? ...
It looks cool but I though at times it looks to good to be true. ... To sceptical I am?

Your opinion please.

Re:Really?

[kkoo]

Not floating but falling together on a ballistic trajectory, and since none of the sections have engines running nor any significant aerodynamic drag there's no reason for them to move quickly apart. Plus there are lots of cameras on the vehicle so they will pick up good views, and you're only seeing selected good bits not the many, many minutes of video where the cameras show nothing interesting.

Re:Really?

[wonkey_monkey]

So a rocket break up into 4+ parts and 4 of those stay in 30 meter proximity to each other, floating in space?

What else would they do?

With the right angle for the go pro to film?

There was one shot with particularly fortuitous timing (catching the main body splitting at the right point during a rotation), but that's easily explained by the likely multiple attempts they did in order to create this GoPro ad.

Re:Woohoo how exciting

[110010001000]

Interesting. It is amazing what you learn on the Internet when you truly listen. Thanks.

Actually, the question **I** would like to know. .

[Salgak1]

. . . is not how they affixed the cameras to the rocket and RV.

What *I* would like to know is how they protected the cameras. Because the drag and heating effects of a ~3800 mph slipstream are going to be noticeable. After all, the leading edges of SR-71s expand substantially, and have been reported to glow from air-friction induced heating. . .and a Blackbird tops out at 2200 mph.

THOSE details would be far more interesting. . .

Re:Actually, the question **I** would like to know

[110010001000]

I agree. It totally begs the question.

Re: Actually, the question **I** would like to kno

[Anonymous Coward]

Mostly time. Blackbird has heat expansion issues because it flies in atmosphere at 2200mph for a long time. The rocket may have peaked at 3600mph, but you only get seconds of that before the atmosphere is too thin to cause much heating.

Watch old manned launch videos and listen for the term "Max Q". That's the point where atmospheric drag is at its highest (factoring in acceleration and atmospheric density), and it's surprisingly early.

Re:Spinning

[OzPeter]

How does the pilot not get sick when the rocket spins like that?

Umm ..

1) The pilot is knocked unconscious by the high launch forces, so never sees anything?
2) The pilot spends hours and hours training on a merry-go-round?
3) The pilot doesn't directly look out the window. Instead he/she watches the video after they de-spin it?
4) The pilot spent man-hours training on FPS video games?
5) or maybe because there is no pilot?

But to answer the question...

[Roger W Moore]

how did they fasten the cameras to a rocket traveling at 3,796 mph?

I'm reasonably certain that they didn't. They attached it to the rocket while it was stationary.

Re:Actually, the question **I** would like to know

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

It didn't appear to be "in space" very long, and as convection heat loss drops along with the pressure and density of the atmosphere, the inside of the rocket should stay plenty warm for it's brief duration up there.