Steam Rocket

4 responses to “Steam Rocket”

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   biotron

   Sep 5, 2008 at 8:31 pm

   "steam punk" 🙂

   i was desperate to work that genre into a recent comment about an old-fashioned toy shop here in Glasgow. i took the liberty of making good use of your cracking Gaudi photos to embellish my bulldada 😉

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   P^2 – Paul

   Sep 6, 2008 at 2:17 am

   Now, aren’t the space shuttle main engines also just steam rockets? Big, complicated, expensive, and pretty efficient for their class, but really just steam engines…

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   jurvetson

   Sep 6, 2008 at 6:41 am

   nope, but the Shuttle boosters are really big versions of all the other rockets you see on this stream – solid segmented motors

   Here’s a great story from a guy who built them

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   P^2 – Paul

   Sep 6, 2008 at 1:29 pm

   I meant to mean the SSMEs run on steam: the exhaust is nothing but high pressure steam, hence (loosely) steam engines… I didn’t mean to imply it’s driven by steam-pressurized water.

   Just a little dig to say we are still quaintly Victorian in our means to get to the rest of the universe.

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