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on Thursday November 23 2017, @02:45AM
from the live-streamed-or-live-steamed? dept.
from the live-streamed-or-live-steamed? dept.
"Mad" Mike Hughes plans to ascend to 1800 feet in a $20,000 steam-powered rocket.
He has flown in rockets before, mostly successfully, but was injured by the acceleration.
Despite that he claims "science is science fiction", he used documented engineering formulas because they are known to work, despite that the science behind them is bogus.
It will be live-streamed on Hughes' YouTube channel, possibly also on Pay-Per-View.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:27AM (4 children)
We use steam engines on some of our most powerful rockets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy [wikipedia.org]
We also used steam engines to help go to the Moon and lift the Space Shuttle.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:49AM
Liar. None of what you say ever happened.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:54AM
Give me goddamned steam any day! We put guys on the Moon with steam, it was good enough. It made us the greatest nation in the history of the world. It's still the best. Why do we need the digital catapult? Are we babies?
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday November 23 2017, @09:26AM (1 child)
Surely when you combine LOX and Liquid Hydrogen (as used by the space shuttle) in the presence of a flame, you get steam?
(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Thursday November 23 2017, @10:23AM
What's that sound? *looks up* A rocket launch over my head?