Holy macarony on a friday night with Jessica Alba ! This is gold !
I will have my master in Mechanical engineering in a year.
If we can organize this id be happy to help.
I specialize in design and management.
Im from Amsterdam (europe) but dont have a problem with going to somewhere else as long as all expenses are payed by donating members (like at SA) But I doubt that wil happen here.
So now we have:
1xAerospace Engineer
1000x Wannabe computer engineer
1xMechanical engineer.
Lets meet in london tomorrow to talk this over Mkay?
1 buy a helium balloon
2 tie a dildo to it
3 release in densely populated area
4 ???
5 Profit!
I'm sure a manned mission would be pretty easy.
I do it on garrysmod all the time and I hardly ever lose control and die.
For the space project to be truly epic, you would need transmitters and receivers capable of operating up to 50 miles just to make sure you can actually put your craft into space and successfully fly it back to earth. A Remote Controlled Airplane would work, but with a propeller engine it wouldn't get into space. If we could launch something into space via a rocket, possible. The best plausible space craft to launch into orbit and bring back would have to be a shuttle like plane/vessel. It would need cameras of a 360 degree view. Sufficient fuel to launch up into space, and sufficient range to transmit directing it back to earth. It would also need burn-proof metallics to make sure it does not burn up on the way back.
TL;DR The paragraph explains it all bitch.
Gather all the volunteers in the same place, make a huge human pyramid. If we are lucky few of the ones in the top might asphyxiate.
Before we get into space, let's try at least getting into the air.
Now, who's got the money for several tons of helium?
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Oh, almost forgot: We need to make the giant balloon have a FP logo on it.
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Also in 2 years I will have my masters degree in Applied physics, so by then if you need anymore help, add me to the list.
Three pages worth of posts and still no plan?
IMHO, we should forget about space, SA did it anyway, we should instead do something that each of us can participate in without having to be in the UK or the US or something. This way we can put to use all the memebers of FP (we got quite many)
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The rocket plan requires highly educated ppl, and we ain't that.
[QUOTE=kayOkay;24600014]Three pages worth of posts and still no plan?
IMHO, we should forget about space, SA did it anyway, we should instead do something that each of us can participate in without having to be in the UK or the US or something. This way we can put to use all the memebers of FP (we got quite many)
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The rocket plan requires highly educated ppl, and we ain't that.[/QUOTE]
To the Facepunch Airship Project then!
Let's explore the ocean.
I think i've made every kind of FP joke there.
-Classic FP reference
-general joke
-fox news hate
-a gmod server to linux comparison
-shitty pun
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;24542459][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20&feature=player_embedded[/media][/QUOTE]
I actually know the guy who designed and built that rocket (he's the guy with the striped shirt sat on the left at [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4WzWFKQ20#t=1m]1:00[/url]).
He also did planning & execution of the [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEebpG6P0SY]mini ski jump[/url] stunt.
Also [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kntaSdgfAw]this rocket[/url] for Blue Peter.
[ [url=http://www.ukrocketman.com/rocketry/index.shtml]his site[/url] ]
Best I've done personally is a rocket which reached 11,000 ft and [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ZVwjvwMWI#t=1m48s]made Mk1.6.[/url] ([url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujldhYTXkcQ&feature=related]another view[/url]).
But yeah, getting to space is pretty hard.
if we got an open sourse development program to help design it, people with just a passing knowledge of aerospace can help contribute. make it low budget-er. that way the only real money will be paying nasa to proofread and rocket fuel.
[QUOTE=robopm;24606443]if we got an open sourse development program to help design it, people with just a passing knowledge of aerospace can help contribute. make it low budget-er. that way the only real money will be paying nasa to proofread and rocket fuel.[/QUOTE]
Google sketchup is open source.
I rather use Inventor, Solid edge and Autocad tough.
Autodesk gives free student versions to annyone with a student e-mail registration.
If we can actually form a "team" and get a solid plan in place, SolidWorks lets you use their software for a year.
[url]http://www.solidworks.com/sw/education/student-design-competitions.htm[/url]
Don't ask me how to use it, I'm really not all that good with these types of programs (Pro|e, ANSYS, FLUENT, SolidWorks, AutoCad, Katea (?)...)
[QUOTE=kayOkay;24600014]Three pages worth of posts and still no plan?
IMHO, we should forget about space, SA did it anyway, we should instead do something that each of us can participate in without having to be in the UK or the US or something. This way we can put to use all the memebers of FP (we got quite many)
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The rocket plan requires highly educated ppl, and we ain't that.[/QUOTE]
How about the UAV from Make Magazine issue number 13 (i think) we can fly it from New York to London
[QUOTE=toaster468;24620822]How about the UAV from Make Magazine issue number 13 (i think) we can fly it from New York to London[/QUOTE]
Making something fly really isnt that hard.
Making it fly straight and stable would be a really tough nut to crack for any programming group.
I say we do a Facepunch Shitty Wooden Bi-Plane System
FSWBPS for short
Let's just make a giant, semi-rigid helium balloon. Put a basket at the bottom of it, let it get high enough into the air, then use some propulsion to fly it from the US to England and back, or maybe the other way. We could include side-trips such as Canada. Collect the addresses of any participating Facepunchers and we may succeed.
Well, the SA rocket launch got postponed until June of next year.
[QUOTE=jeimizu;24624668]Well, the SA rocket launch got postponed until June of next year.[/QUOTE]
OK guys we have to get to Mars before June.
That's 10 months. How hard can it be?
[QUOTE=CarlBooth;24633847]OK guys we have to get to Mars before June.
That's 10 months. How hard can it be?[/QUOTE]
Again, trip takes 9 months one way.
But hell, why not try huh?
[QUOTE=gerbile5;24602328]I think i've made every kind of FP joke there.
-Classic FP reference
-general joke
-fox news hate
-a gmod server to linux comparison
-shitty pun[/QUOTE]
You forgot to tell the OP to convert the rocket to communism.
[QUOTE=taipan;24620090]Google sketchup is open source.
I rather use Inventor, Solid edge and Autocad tough.
Autodesk gives free student versions to annyone with a student e-mail registration.[/QUOTE]
I took an AutoCAD class in school so I know how to use the basics it. I don't have AutoCAD but my dad has Turbocad which is similar.
[QUOTE=Pelf;24637669]I took an AutoCAD class in school so I know how to use the basics it. I don't have AutoCAD but my dad has Turbocad which is similar.[/QUOTE]
Auto CAD is really easy one you figure it out. A blueprint wouldn't be much harder than what I already do at school.
How about we get an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and tie a shitload of fireworks to it, then fly it over a military base, timing the fireworks to go off just as it gets over.
Fox news will have a field day!
I like this thread
Some people seem to be mixing up garrysmod with real life.
One relies on the laws of the source engine and unlimited fuel is possible,
the other relies on the laws of physics and an atmosphere-leaving rocket is not possible unless you think BIG.
If somehow you managed to build a huge rocket, and then launched it without authorisation (and without it just exploding on the launch pad), you are going to be in serious trouble afterwards.
And I'd just love to see you try getting something like that authorised.
this is actually a good idea, theres a kit to help a CubeSat with is about the size of your keyboard but it can be programmed to do almost anything (telemetry, location server, uplink/downlink) The satellite kit it self costs about 1,000 USD but launching it into space is a bit more expensive: $294,000 USD
Isn't it relatively cheap? Like a couple hundred bucks?
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