I'm going to see if my friend wants to try this out. I'll post the pictures on this post if we do it soon.
[QUOTE=TCat;24537695]Good idea. Now how do we go about doing this, realistically?[/QUOTE]
Balloon, model rocket painted with Facepunch insignia made of Balsa wood and plastic weighing very little, then build the cockpit with some Styrofoam cushioning for the GPS device and the camera, aim the camera outwards towards the front with nothing blocking its view.
Have a launch day. :smug:
Does anyone know the cost of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen?
[QUOTE=LarparNar;24542671]Does anyone know the cost of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen?[/QUOTE]
Ill just put it simply.
Not cheap
You are better off buying liquid nitrogen and thats not gonna get you very far.
Liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen doesn't costs much i think. But the canisters cost a lot
I was actually considering doing this for a lab experiment at uni, but we were going to fit it with some kind of lightweight cosmic ray detector (probably a photographic plate) to measure cosmic radiation. We only had 9 weeks for the project though, and I doubt we could have done it in that time span.
[QUOTE=analrapist;24472300]Wow, just what our astronauts need, more trash in space that could run into them and kill them.
:colbert:[/QUOTE]
If they get killed like something like that they shouldn't have passed astronaut training.
Give me an address, I'll donate 6 foam NASA helmets from Party City.
Is it possible for the camera to take video clips as well? They'd consume more space on the memory chip, but it would be cool to have some amateur space footage.
we need a donation fund
maybe have a moderator or garry handle the money
[QUOTE=Archy;24549624]we need a donation fund
maybe have a moderator or garry handle the money[/QUOTE]
If there are donators, then right before it gets sent up we ought to have a fake plaque or something with all the donators' names attached to it.
should send a cheap laptop up and facepunch on the screen.
I'm all for this. Really. I'd donate, like, 20-50 bucks or something.
Attach about 18 to different parts of my body.
Oh,yeah and bring a really really long rope and a few cinderblocks.
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Oh,and put a Facepunch logo that says "WWW.FACEPUNCH.COM" under it up there.
And make it really fucking big.
Interesting, I totally want to help work on this thing.
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;24549571]Is it possible for the camera to take video clips as well? They'd consume more space on the memory chip, but it would be cool to have some amateur space footage.[/QUOTE]
Yes it is, I could buy a pretty nice sized SD chip for the camera if its needed that bad.
So whats the plan, whose doing what and wheres the launch?
Once we gain the proper thrust to go 7 miles per second to escape earth's gravity, we should totally send a laptop with this thread up to the ISS.
[QUOTE=Dacheet;24554873]Once we gain the proper thrust to go 7 miles per second to escape earth's gravity, we should totally send a laptop with this thread up to the ISS.[/QUOTE]
Aged Dell laptop decorated with a red smiley face logo collided with the ISS approximately 6 hours ago, knocking it out of orbit and completely cutting off communication between the station and Earth. More at 11. :foxnews:
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by the way, [URL]http://chipin.com[/URL] can be used to collect funds for this retarded endeavor
Poo in bucket
Attatch to high-altitude baloon
???
[b]shit in space[/b]
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[QUOTE=Dacheet;24554873]Once we gain the proper thrust to go 7 miles per second to escape earth's gravity, we should totally send a laptop with this thread up to the ISS.[/QUOTE]
Or once the baloon is high up, attatched thrusters would kick in sending it that little bit further and into space...
[QUOTE=lolnubs;24556048]Poo in bucket
Attatch to high-altitude baloon
???
[B]shit in space[/B][/QUOTE]
Definitely this and definitely diarrhea and definitely over a city.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;24556091]Definitely this and definitely diarrhea and definitely over a city.[/QUOTE]
we should shit in a box, then set the trajectory for launch so that it lands in front of kim jong il's palace
have a feed of the entire thing
I can assist with microcontroller programming.
[QUOTE=Archy;24556414]we should shit in a box, then set the trajectory for launch so that it lands in front of kim jong il's palace
have a feed of the entire thing[/QUOTE]
But that would start another Korean war.
i'm so in.
but as a side note, don't forget some instant hand warmers or something to keep all the electronics warm enough to work.
This would be awesome!
Add to our funds now:
I'd send my shit to space
We probably should send a huge layer of tinfoil with a Facepunch logo on it, so airplane radars would see it as a mysterious flat alien ship. It has a potential to start a nuclear war and end this civlisation if we would send it near North Korea.
I'm currently buying stuff needed for that.
I'd be willing to donate $50 for this, just as long as a well known fp'er will be handling this.
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Hell if every active fp'er donated $10-20 we could probably get something into orbit.
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