• FPSI - Can we go to space daddy?
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You guys have no idea how difficult this is going to be. I'm doing a high altitude balloon project and it turned out to be alot more tough and expensive than I originally thought - and I'm just launching a weather balloon. If you're gonna do this, then you need a few things: [list] [*]Jobs, the equipment isn't cheap, although it is probably cheaper in the US than here [*]Knowledge, which means months of research [*]Someone who knows soldering, electronics, programming [*]Someone who is really good at maths [*]Two guys, in fact, since every equation needs to be checked three times over [*]Testing. Testing. Testing. Meaning you're gonna burn even more money and time [*]Government approval, I don't know how much paperwork I've sent in and how many calls I've had to make to get launch approval [*]Possibly someone who knows how to weld, I'm not sure how you're gonna put toghether a rocket otherwise [/list] I certainly hope you guys can manage, though. Projects like these are [I]really[/I] interesting. Good luck. [editline]16th February 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Swebonny;28089069]That would actually probably be the only feasible project a community such as Facepunch could achieve. I was thinking of doing that as my last year high school project. But it required quite a lot of work and approval by some administrations (correct word?). And also a good position to start on, which I find that Stockholm isn't.[/QUOTE] Haha, I'm based in Skåne, and I have to launch from Markaryd (Småland). Must be aerospace hell up in Stockholm.
is going to be something like this? [url]http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/[/url] because then you can pay for this with just donations (its on 150$)
What happens if we forget a minus sign and accidentally blow up the earth? :ohdear:
Highly unlikely because forgetting a minus sign would most likely result in something going in a direction not intended. Now, forgetting a decimal point....that's some serious shit.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;28094446]Highly unlikely because forgetting a minus sign would most likely result in something going in a direction not intended. Now, forgetting a decimal point....that's some serious shit.[/QUOTE] "Well, shit, guys, I accidentally gave the rocket ten billion thrust, and now its somewhere in the vicinity of alpha centauri..."
Once we meet. There will be permabanned members with sniper rifles trying to kill everybody.
We can raise money through custom titles.
If you guys wanted to, we could get a high altitude jet, and pack someone in a missile and shoot them off to the moon. However, it would be a one way trip. Let's get an emo kid to do it.
That's everyone on Facepunch though.
[QUOTE=haloguy234;28099962]That's everyone on Facepunch though.[/QUOTE] Not really. [editline]16th February 2011[/editline] Oh, retarded-ish style carpet bombing would be a lot easier, since I know a few friends who can get a cargo aircraft with a C-17 style cargo hold and release in the back. The day the skies ran red from the blood of punched faces.
[b]Here's how we goto space:[/b] Use the physgun to place a couch on the ground,add thrusters to the bottom,wield a seat and ta-da.
[QUOTE=alphatwo;28060642]Screw copying the goons, we need to make a submarine.[/QUOTE] Uh the same SA group that made the rocket made a full sized submarine before that. [editline]16th February 2011[/editline] I guess I can join. I'm planning on being a pilot and I'm studying the basics of Aerospace Engineering... I know a good bit of statistics and calculus as well.
How about we use the boxes that OP has and climb our way to space?
[QUOTE=Uberman77883;28100058]Uh the same SA group that made the rocket made a full sized submarine before that. [editline]16th February 2011[/editline] I guess I can join. I'm planning on being a pilot and I'm studying the basics of Aerospace Engineering... I know a good bit of statistics and calculus as well.[/QUOTE] There is no SA group, it's one guy who has an SA account that builds cool shit. SA has nothing to do with any of it. If a NASA member joined facepunch, NASA would not belong to facepunch.
[QUOTE=Bomber9900;28060585]Honestly, think how cool it would be to, as a community, view the planets of our solar system on a live feed rather then just through some pictures that are on the internet, maybe even get a close up view of the surface of mars. Telescopes located on Earth are limited because we have to go through a day and night cycle, but when you have a telescope in space, the possibilities are endless and you are able to view things much clearer then you'd ever be able to on Earth.[/QUOTE] any sort of unauthorized video satelite would be shot down unfortunately...
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;28103379]any sort of unauthorized video satelite would be shot down unfortunately...[/QUOTE] Say nothing of the fact that NASA had a huge team, spent years and billions on hubble and had a huge amount of problems.
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;28103379]any sort of unauthorized video satelite would be shot down unfortunately...[/QUOTE] Um, no. Space isn't restricted in any way. Who has the power to enforce authority in our solar system? :downs: It would be the launch part that would be the legal issue.
This won't work like the one on SA did.
eh, you need to reach AFAIK around 11.2 km/s (40 320 km/h) (unit is probs wrong). The official Karman line is 100km (outher space vs sub-orbit). therefore we will need to achive 40 320 km/h for 0.00248015873 hours The gravitational pull of the Earth is ~10m/s/s (overestimation for a reason), and it steadily drops off as we rise with the formula [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/c/9/5c98ee2f8ccd0ee0ef08f9db59c7a4ba.png[/img] where gh is the gravity measure at height above sea level. re is the Earth's mean radius. g0 is the standard gravity. therefore we will need FUCK it i really cba
This will never work out if it's a few days a year. NASA takes like $1billion+ 4 - 5 years just to get a spacecraft I think FP has some pocket change, some ideas and some sarcasm
[QUOTE=Eltro102;28111128]eh, you need to reach AFAIK around 11.2 km/s (40 320 km/h) (unit is probs wrong). The official Karman line is 100km (outher space vs sub-orbit). therefore we will need to achive 40 320 km/h for 0.00248015873 hours The gravitational pull of the Earth is ~10m/s/s (overestimation for a reason), and it steadily drops off as we rise with the formula [img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/c/9/5c98ee2f8ccd0ee0ef08f9db59c7a4ba.png[/img_thumb] where gh is the gravity measure at height above sea level. re is the Earth's mean radius. g0 is the standard gravity. therefore we will need FUCK it i really cba[/QUOTE] Rounding the force of the earth's gravitational pull to 10m/s^2 while calculating the launch patterns of a rocket can possibly be very dangerous late take-off phase.
Better idea to make a rocket ship, fill your tub with water plug a toaster in and drop the toaster into the water while you sit in it. TADA your on the moon!
Do you actually want to get this thing into orbit, or just launch it randomly into the sky and hope it reaches space? If you want to get it into orbit, then, we may as well take something with us - we could possibly design and build a 'cubesat', which are basically tiny satellites. Hell, even if we eschew the entire 'lutz beeld a rocket hurr durr look i have high explosive, = rocket fuel rite?!' bit of it, we can put together a cubesat, and I -think- many commercial space companies offer to take them up for free. A lot of universities have done this - I think Cambridge did, and MIT as well. Of course, I'm not entirely sure what the point of that would be, unless we somehow make it hijack television signals and get free movies forever. It costs between '500 - 3000' USD.
We should create a Ponzi Scheme to funnel money to build a rocket and buy supplies for a self sufficient colony on Mars. Then before we get caught we high tail it off this planet.
I can't tell if this is serious or not. god dammit i hope not I mean I could do the maths, but hate to tell you this will fail. Also i hate to tell you guys but you cant take newtons laws of gravity change the masses and radius about and bang presto it will work. Doesn't take into account the fact the rocket loses mass when it expels fuel for that you will need some differential equation and am willing to bed most people would be astronauts here probably probably can't differentiate an equation analytically never mind doing it numerically.
Dude, I wouldn't trust a tent built by Facepunch, let alone a rocket.
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;28117850]Dude, I wouldn't trust a tent built by Facepunch, let alone a rocket.[/QUOTE] This guy got it lol
Can I be the space breeder? I'll sacrifice my dick to some toxic alien so you can study cross-species breeding. I did this with a horse once, but the people at the pet farm kicked me out for hating science.
[QUOTE=blazingfly;28114500]Do you actually want to get this thing into orbit, or just launch it randomly into the sky and hope it reaches space? If you want to get it into orbit, then, we may as well take something with us - we could possibly design and build a 'cubesat', which are basically tiny satellites. Hell, even if we eschew the entire 'lutz beeld a rocket hurr durr look i have high explosive, = rocket fuel rite?!' bit of it, we can put together a cubesat, and I -think- many commercial space companies offer to take them up for free. A lot of universities have done this - I think Cambridge did, and MIT as well. Of course, I'm not entirely sure what the point of that would be, unless we somehow make it hijack television signals and get free movies forever. It costs between '500 - 3000' USD.[/QUOTE] This actually sounds like the best idea at the moment.
ahhahahahha
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