Self taught rocket launcher - Failure waiting to happen... 1

[IRstuff]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...h-in-his-homemade-rocket-saying-it-s-not-easy

The psychology of this is quite fascinating to me.

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[MortenA]

He was inside that thing? I have more problems believing that than that man has set foot on the moon (i actually think that's true)!

BTW, in a steam powered rocket - do you have water also like a bottle rocket? Is there anything on the G force experienced?

 

[LittleInch]

If you actually find the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uih7nLaL0u4

you can see him straight after landing.

There are some longer ones also there - search for noiZe tTV along with MMH.

The lack of landing cushioning, other than break off of the nose cone, looks pretty brutal and I can't begin to imagine what the G loads are on launch....

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[byrdj]

to bad he couldn't get "RedBull" to sponsor him. then there would have been a lot more coverage

 

[JStephen]

"The lack of landing cushioning, other than break off of the nose cone, looks pretty brutal and I can't begin to imagine what the G loads are on launch...."

It looked to me like he ran out of steam about halfway up. Neglecting air resistance and assuming constant acceleration would give him +1g (above gravity) up to the halfway point and -1g from there to the peak. So potentially not bad on acceleration going up. Although his seat position doesn't look comfortable for a vertical flight.

I'd compare this to going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Some people have done it with pretty minimal planning and survived, others didn't. Kind of a roll of the dice.

I'd have two concerns flying that thing. One, that the parachutes just wouldn't open for whatever reason. Two, that the control system, if any, would fail and let me just do a big rainbow arc into the ground at full speed.

 

[MortenA]

@Littleinch, would still be easy to fake this (putting him into the capsule after the rocket had landed). However, i don't doubt that his hunger for attention made him crawl into that thing. However, when you look at the videos posted claming to be from the launch - you see obvious differences (at least in the beginning e.g. children and a car)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UAHORcbvvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uih7nLaL0u4

 

[MortenA]

It looks like he sat so that he was head up when the pod laded/crashed. That fits with him being lifted out of the pod looking rather much in pain. Hopefully he didnt break his legs :-(

 

[JStephen]

I'm not so sure about the children and the car- I think that may be from using a long telephoto that's compressing the apparent distance between them. If you notice, when the rocket launches, there's a brief interval before the kids look around, so I think they're a good ways back from it. In the distance shots, at the very bottom of the screen, you can see a whole line of cars along a road there. I'm also seeing some heat-wave type distortion, which is typical with long telephotos.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, I got the same impression, that we were seeing a shot from a distance using a very long lens. And the delayed reaction of the people in the foreground appears to confirm that.

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[MacGyverS2000]

I'm amused at engineers debunking video of a whackaloon trying to debunk science... something very complete-the-circle about it all

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[VEBill]

Evidence from sea level strongly suggests it's curved along at least one axis.

 

[MacGyverS2000]

No evidence of earthen curvature there, only parabolic flight.

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[dgallup]

Well, there's some reverse curvature from the fisheye lens.

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[dik]

I still think there should be a Darwin Award for Lifetime Achievement...

Dik

 

[JohnRBaker]

Generally speaking, most 'Darwin Awards' are given posthumously since the whole point of the 'Darwin Award' was to honor those who were unfit enough to have removed themselves from the human gene-pool before contaminating it any further.

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[Sparweb]

Don't be hasty, John. Sounds like Mike is still in contention. Stay tuned...

STF

 

[waross]

Most don't work as hard as Mad Mike for a Darwin award.


Bill
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[dgallup]

It may be to late if he's got children.

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[MacGyverS2000]

Most don't work as hard as Mad Mike for a Darwin award.

No, most just get lucky on their first (sometimes second) try...

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[JohnRBaker]

Here's some worrisome survey results which has a tangential relationship to the original topic of this thread:

A Third Of Millennials Aren’t Sure The Earth Is Round, Survey Finds

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/millennials-flat-earth-survey/

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EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

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It's finding someone you can't live without

 

[JAE]

Well the earth isn’t round. It is spherical.

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