I have seen many rockets this summer, and posted so many shots, that it must come to a close, with this compendium of Other People’s Rockets @ BALLS.
This backlit blast seemed the most artistic.
Several more below. And the earlier posts here.
Upscale Skeeter on M motor
Which went in to a mystery spiral overhead
Adrian Carbine successfully launched Triple Threat with three N motors staging in succession! Congrats^3!!!
(I got a video of last year’s attempt, when 2 of 3 motors lit)
My buddy Tom introducing someone to their first rocket launch
and she traced a curvaceous arc
An O motor launch with upper-stage dart (which drag separates at motor burnout), and Black Rock in the distance
A cool blastoff with mirage effects
But it ended up in a yard sale
Tim’s Hybrid O launch, with nitrous tanks on the ground
and the deep crater in the playa it left when it came back ballistic (fin slice on right):
And a final silhouette of my Mongoose98XL, R.I.P.
Nice shot (backlit exhaust, meandering tire tracks, framed by the outline of the mountain)
Building a Mystery….
(listening to now)
I like the main photo specially for the melody in the shapes it makes… if that makes any sense…
Nice that first shot is the most artistic. I expect to see in on a rocket rag soon enough.
Reminds me of Robert Goddard, a friend of my grandparents in Worcester, MA.
My Grandma mentioned his rockets to me many times as I was growing up.
His story is pretty interesting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
Great series.
Wondering how that 3 stage job did…I like the look !
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/agrinberg]
Goddard wrote a book or journal….I actually read it from the library in ? 1968…
Any idea where I could find this online,or even in print….?
it seems to be hiding.
A Grinberg,
Goddard’s diaries, journals and notebooks can be found here Over 48,000 pages scanned and available. If he wrote, it it is here. http://www.clarku.edu/research/archives/goddard/
His classic work; (1919)
"A Method of reaching Extreme Altitudes"
http://www.clarku.edu/research/archives/pdf/ext_altitudes.pdf
Another Citizen of the Universe Konstantin Tsiolkosky:
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/theceage.htm
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky’s 16 Stages of Space Exploration.
( 1926 )
1. Design of rocket-propelled airplanes with wings.
2. Progressively increasing the speeds and altitudes reached with these airplanes.
3. Designing of a pure rocket without wings.
4. Developing the ability to land on the ocean surface by rocket.
5. Reaching of escape velocity and first flight into space.
6. Lengthening of the rocket flight time into space.
7. Experimental use of plants to make an artificial atmosphere in spacecraft.
8. Using of pressurised space suits for activity outside spacecraft.
9. Making of orbital greenhouses for plants.
10. Building of the large orbital habitats around the earth.
11. Using solar radiation to grow food, to heat space quarters, and for transport needs throughout the solar system.
12. Colonization of the asteroid belt.
13. Colonisation of the entire solar system and beyond.
14. Achievement of individual and social perfection.
15. Overcrowding of the solar system and galaxy colonisation.
16. The sun begins to die and the people remaining in the solar system’s population move to other solar systems.
The Google+ link, from Robert Scoble, about this picture and Steve: plus.google.com/u/0/111091089527727420853/posts/gSoMWLfW2a1
A delight.
If google+ will be the only social media site which is not owned in full or partly by any mafia or any third party associated with it- i will join google+ as soon as "don’t be evil" flag will stay in place there… it essence. Is it too much to ask in this world…? Another rhetoric question…
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/solerena] Who is John Galt? 😉
Google since a lot of time has tweaked their Don’t be Evil to Let’s take Over the World… since then my impressions of it changed in high proportion. However, as I am in facebook, I am there too. But it’s getting really boring this "million social networks" thing… and saturating and time consuming.
!!!
…….also everyone rushing out for a break and staring at these little boxes….
On the bus,in elevators…
if only google will combine "don’t be evil" with let’s take over the world… i will go for it:) yep, social media can make us dream our life away – flickr is one great example… or twit our brain away on twitter… or facebook us to death with thousands of "friends" if the first two are not enough. Not sure what googleplus will do to us… good question, did not understand yet.
There are plenty of positive things associated with all social media.
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