[QUOTE=photonManipul8r;28066787]Serious question, what's going to happen first? Like, the first step in the process?[/QUOTE]
talk to girls
then proceed
[QUOTE=Moose;28066797]talk to girls
then proceed[/QUOTE]
Good plan. I've got loads of girls around my area, do you need me to bring some?
As much as I want this to succeed, It won't without a LOT of money... We can't just design and build a rocket with maths, we'd need lots of rocket testing and stuff before we even get to a possible final design..
How about we try something much simpler first like a giant helium weather balloon with cameras/gps/etc. attached.
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It'd be cheap enough for England/USA to each have one and compete to get the highest and best pictures, etc.
[QUOTE=VaSTinY;28061843]Wow.
Also to the guy above its VERY possible - however they will need millions, probably billions of space money :v: to get this shit started, they need to construct a multi-million dollar rocket launch base and shit.
What if every single member of Facepunch ever in history would donate say, 5$ for this.[/QUOTE]
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Make a small rocket to start off with... Keep trying intill you get some sort of safety feature and just build from there.
[QUOTE=J Paul;28061879]I think it'd be really cool to build a balloon-dropped unmanned rocket powered hypersonic spaceplane. Kind of like the X-15 or SpaceShipOne just with a balloon instead of a carrier aircraft. It's something that's actually possible.
A balloon hoists the UAV to as high as it can go (probably around 50,000 feet) and drops it. Then, the rocket engine ignites, sending the UAV up and out of the atmosphere. Re-entry could be handled by stealing Scaled Composite's feathered design. It could easily house an HD video camera and whatever else we'd want up there and still be tiny enough that it wouldn't be too expensive.
We're never going to get anything into orbit, though. Our highest hopes could be unmanned Project Mercury style suborbital ballistic flights dropped from balloons.[/QUOTE]
50 thousand feet?
really?
...
[QUOTE=photonManipul8r;28066824]Good plan. I've got loads of girls around my area, do you need me to bring some?[/QUOTE]
nah we cant fit them in the van
lol
Jesus Christ, I didn't know we had so many people who wanted to be Aerospace Engineers or who ARE D:>
I donated uranium.
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Make a uranium ship! :v:
There's a reason nasa uses such huge rockets, it takes a lot of thrust to get to these velocities and heights, and more fuel for more thrust = more weight you have to thrust.
Im in
[QUOTE=PrSon4;28060314]I don't think 12 year olds will be able to accomplish space travel.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this. Most members on FP doesn't have the necessities or even the most barebones of the basic knowledge accomplish so.
We can get aVon to do the physics/maths,
Overv to do the programming/maths,
That guy who makes the swords (whose name I can't remember) to do the welding of the rocket,
Garry to fund us.
Make it so.
Once in space we need to get the Unobtanium and bring it back to earth = $$$
Won't work, you expect 10 year olds to do astrophysics?
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...is to tone down the awful shadows and stop using imageshack
[QUOTE=Capn'Underpants;28068186]50 thousand feet?
really?
...[/QUOTE]
I don't know. It's the same altitude the only other suborbital hypersonic rocket powered aircraft have dropped from. SpaceShipOne drops at around 45,000 feet and the X-15 drops at 50.
I got sweat covered, need anything else OP? Maybe I can spare a little bit of blood.
Good luck getting materials for a rocket that resists going from -100 ºC to 2,500 °C.
And good luck getting suits that resist -30 ºC.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Lulz;28072010]Good luck getting materials for a rocket that resists going from -100 ºC to 2,500 °C.
And good luck getting suits that resist -30 ºC.[/QUOTE]
I've got a couple of suits in my backyard.
[QUOTE=Ninjarooster;28072790]I've got a couple of suits in my backyard.[/QUOTE]
Good luck freezing your balls off in space!
NASA can barely get their rockets off the ground without them exploding. What chance do we have?
[QUOTE=OvB;28073190]Start small, guys.
[url]http://www.estesrockets.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
Shrink rays.
Rocket reaches termosphere, mini-astronauts melt and the rocket goes Ka-fucking-blooey.
The SA rocket is barely a community project if I'm correct. It's just that a worker in Copenhagen Suborbital happened to be a member on SA.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;28073426]The SA rocket is barely a community project if I'm correct. It's just that a worker in Copenhagen Suborbital happened to be a member on SA.[/QUOTE]
A couple of members from Copenhagen Suborbital go to SA and post stuff they're working on. It'd be like 10 or so NASA employees happening to be facepunchers and posting pictures of their work and claiming that Facepunch has a space agency.
It's actually just one guy, sorry.
Hey FPers
A fellow Facepuncher will be providing us with a rocket made out of the boxes gained by OP!
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Do people even read the thread. Sgt. Lulz insists we will be using humans for a payload even though I've clearly stated several times that it's to risky and won't be done. Also, 6 acres of land for building facilities can be secured already, however it's in a populated area so testing and launch will have to be done elsewhere.
[QUOTE=Sgt. Lulz;28073605]Hey FPers
A fellow Facepuncher will be providing us with a rocket made out of the boxes gained by OP!
[img_thumb]http://www.savvyhousekeeping.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/littlegordonspacerocket.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
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