Awesomeness

[ThePresence]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=eca_1318160579

This is awesome (the title gave that fact away, I know).
It's incredible what grown men with skills can do in their downtime.

 

[lehtv]

LOL nice

EDIT: Not so much LOL as just WOW.

 

[rasczak]

Pure awesomeness indeed. :thumbsup:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah awesome! Imagine if they lost that thing in orbit lol.

I've always thought of how fun it would be to do something like that.

 

[Fritzo]

I can't believe a $100 camera could survive that.
I can't believe how high that went.
I can't believe it fell within driving distance of the launch site.


AMAZING!!!!

 

[IronWing]

Smart people FTW!

 

[slayer202]

SFW version? I doubt liveleak is

 

[Krazy4Real]

wow!

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Wow! 3200ft/sec! that is 3x speed of sound! :awe:

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

8" Diameter
167.5" Long
320 Pounds

Sounds like my penis! :awe:

 

[BoomerD]

8" Diameter
167.5" Long
320 Pounds

Sounds like my penis! :awe:

They were actually able to get this up with out the use of Viagra...:whiste:

 

[rasczak]

8" Diameter
167.5" Long
320 Pounds

Sounds like my penis! :awe:

whilst the rest of you body dimensions are

5'1
300 Pounds
76 inch waist. :awe:

 

[dighn]

that is pretty sweet. i wonder how much the whole operation cost (in terms of $).

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

very impressive!

 

[Eli]

That was awesome.

Do you have to have a permit to launch something like that I wonder?

 

[CPA]

What happened to the downward facing camera?

 

[Eli]

What happened to the downward facing camera?

I was wondering the same thing, looks like it maybe couldn't take some of the stress? Or something covered the lens.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That was awesome.

Do you have to have a permit to launch something like that I wonder?

I was wondering that too. Or do you have to call the airport to ensure no traffic is passing by there? Better safe than sorry I guess lol.

What would be interesting though is if they got it stuck in orbit. It did not go quite high enough, but don't think it was all that far from there. If you get a kite stuck in electrical wires you can call the hydro company, if you get a rocket stuck in orbit, who do you call, Nasa?

 

[irishScott]

Makes me long for high school when I actually had time to build rockets that went 1/23rd of that altitude.

 

[Josh123]

Wow!

Could you imagine something like that flying at you as a fighter pilot?

What more would it take to actually leave our atmosphere cause it looked like it was pretty damn close?

 

[xanis]

That was fucking awesome.

 

[Eli]

Wow!

Could you imagine something like that flying at you as a fighter pilot?

What more would it take to actually leave our atmosphere cause it looked like it was pretty damn close?

Not even close.

The top of the stratosphere is 55 miles up, or ~300,000'. So I guess he was 1/3rd of the way there?

Low Earth Orbit is around 1,600,000 ft, lol.

Edit: The top of the ionosphere is about 1,300,000' up.... so yeah, not even close.

 

[zinfamous]

...is that Amused in the video? I remember him posting pics of a very similar event, launching his brother's ashes in a similar rocket.


...whatever happened to Amused?

 

[Eli]

...is that Amused in the video? I remember him posting pics of a very similar event, launching his brother's ashes in a similar rocket.


...whatever happened to Amused?

I thought of him too when I saw this.

 

[SKORPI0]

Nice.

Why Do Spinning Rockets Fly Straighter? And why don’t they fly as high as a rocket with straight fins?