LUNAR Launch

12 responses to “LUNAR Launch”

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   angry shock

   Mar 19, 2006 at 2:39 am

   WOW

   3fingers-mouth_open-3fingers!

   Full size is impressive. Good day today. Happy you are happy! =)

   —

   Do me a favour… tell me if you see below the comments box and the buttons this strange line:

   "STRING: こんにちは"

   I am getting it everywhere!

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   Wave Snatcher

   Mar 19, 2006 at 3:06 am

   Cool!

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   jurvetson

   Mar 19, 2006 at 3:14 am

   Alieness: I get it too… A Ghost in the Machine….
   oddwick: yes! Big throaty roars today.

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4. 

   angry shock

   Mar 19, 2006 at 4:18 am

   Ghost gone! String no more. Had its 4 hours of fame… not bad.

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5. 

   samgilford

   Mar 19, 2006 at 6:46 am

   The Japanese characters in the string said konnichiwa ("hello" or "good afternoon"). I have no idea where it came from, however.

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6. 

   angry shock

   Mar 19, 2006 at 12:26 pm

   That was *so* nice from you, carbon. I was very intrigued by what it would mean. Thank you for letting us know. =)

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   jurvetson

   Mar 20, 2006 at 12:06 am

   you’ve been blogged…

   Must be a test run for a full-on visual snow crash…
   

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   angry shock

   Mar 20, 2006 at 2:40 am

   wow… Now we are having our own moment of fame too! Cool! |-)

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9. 

   Telstar Logistics

   Mar 21, 2006 at 2:28 am

   The Raft…. Must… connect… with the Raft…

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10. 

    madrigar

    Mar 21, 2006 at 5:10 pm

    Have you considered adding low-cost radio beacons to your rockets so you can zero in on them with a tracking receiver?

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11. 

    jurvetson

    Mar 21, 2006 at 6:07 pm

    Yes. The high-power rocket folks often include telemetry systems to aid in recovery. But the battery weight is a tradeoff for the smaller rockets. The larger rockets will have batteries already for the onboard motor controller (for multi-stage electronic iginition), altimeter, GPS, videocam and telemetry.

    Do you have system to recommend? (lightweight and small (perhaps size and weight of a 9V battery), 1 mile range, hand-held homing system)

    There are very cheap "sound beacons" (they just give an audible chirp to aid in discovery in foliage, but might be pretty annoying if it got stuck up in a neighbor’s tree).

    So far, I have had moderate luck with a very simple technique – putting a name and phone number on each rocket. I got a call yesterday from Livermore from someone who found the wayward rocket. =)

    Telstar: the proto-Snow-Crash-metavirus was in Japanese. Hiro’s father is Japanese….

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    draymondKC

    Nov 22, 2007 at 4:23 am

    Thanks for sharing the great photo! We have posted the pic under "Iran leader vows no concessions on nukes" at http://www.duhmagazine.com, with your name linked back to this web page. Let us know if the attribution is okay. Thanks!

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