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- eigenweasel, on 04/21/2008, -3/+225For those of you without Flash installed, it goes:
sssssssssssssSCHWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - Ganja420, on 04/21/2008, -7/+217The rocket is fed Taco Bell the night before
- DanBoodro, on 04/21/2008, -18/+148It would make a great lighter
- provibe, on 04/21/2008, -0/+110What they don't mention is that all of the world's clocks now need to be set ahead by 15 seconds due to the increase in the earth's rotation.
- smackjack, on 04/21/2008, -3/+105WE REQUIRE MORE METHANE GAS
- BoneStamp, on 04/21/2008, -7/+98If you made a really small version as a cigarette lighter then you'd sell a ton of those. Those cone shaped fire things look amazing.
- Culyt, on 04/21/2008, -4/+80Stop ***** bitching about dupes, if its on the front page them obviously enough people haven't seen it to consider it interesting. Besides its cool enough to watch again anyway.
- insertAliasHere, on 04/21/2008, -3/+77Methane is naturally odorless. They add a foul smelling compound to it to warn you of a leak.
- darienphoenix, on 04/21/2008, -0/+72Methane is odorless.
- knobtwiddler, on 04/21/2008, -2/+73didn't i hear about liquid methane oceans in saturn's moon titan a while back- "Titan: the gas station of the solar system"
- hermes369, on 04/21/2008, -11/+78And I've tested this principle out with a lighter and yoga.
- deaconyermouf, on 04/21/2008, -0/+56They're called Mach (or Shock) diamonds:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_diamond - poopdigger, on 04/21/2008, -1/+57I think the point of the test bench here is that its not supposed to move.
- PigGeneral, on 04/21/2008, -12/+55Nifty. I was kind of hoping it would push the test bench a little.
- moocowrat, on 04/21/2008, -4/+43strap that on some wheels and i call shotgun!
- 2ndrookie, on 04/21/2008, -9/+45I'd rather my tax dollars goto Space Research any day than goto Bush's pockets.
- MacEnvy, on 04/21/2008, -0/+34I dugg you down by accident (sorry) but you're correct. The smell of "methane" that we associate with natural gas is actually the additive butyl mercaptan.
- schnikies79, on 04/21/2008, -0/+33@ToadLeg
Explain to me again how you get ***** from a cow. - takamalak, on 04/21/2008, -0/+32That's because of the human additive: *****.
- NaibCZ, on 04/21/2008, -0/+31by burning methane you get carbon dioxide and water...I doubt water smells bad :)
- delvach, on 04/21/2008, -3/+33Sweet, we totally get to decimate a new planet now!
- Suricou, on 04/21/2008, -4/+33The flame is a very odd shape - bright spots at regular intervals. Some type of standing wave effect?
- Pissoff, on 04/21/2008, -0/+28FYI: NASA likely adds chocolate chip cookie smelling components to the methane they use.
Speculating is fun! - edmcguirk, on 04/21/2008, -0/+24I can't watch video at work but I believe they are called Mach Diamonds.
- Fokma, on 04/21/2008, -2/+26Yeah... as cool as it looks, you wonder how much propulsion it actually creates.
- delvach, on 04/21/2008, -0/+21Meanwhile, at a nearby Emergency Room... "Doctor, we've got another one. I'll spread the cheeks, you get the gauze."
- Peavey, on 04/21/2008, -1/+21^^^ fail.
- schnikies79, on 04/21/2008, -0/+18@ToadLeg
Nor do you live on planet earth. Cow =/= horse. - theghoul, on 04/21/2008, -2/+20som'bitch that looks powerful.
Notice how the mount jumps forward during the second stage.
Then it burps after eating gravity. - L0C0loco, on 04/21/2008, -0/+17Search on the term "shock diamond". The periodic pattern of bright diamonds in the jet are due to the shock wave reflecting off of the outside of the jet and recombining (to increase temperature and burn residual fuel). Look closely at the thickness of the jet and you'll notice that it varies periodically also with a minimum diameter at the shock diamonds.
Old or not, it still is cool to watch. - ToadLeg, on 04/21/2008, -1/+18@schnikies79
Next are you going to tell me that moths aren't horses? - bootfail, on 04/21/2008, -17/+32What a bunch of ***** comments. They are either fart jokes, "hey holmes, put that on my car.", "would make a bitchin' lighter", or OLD OMFG.
- bootfail, on 04/21/2008, -0/+15A methane rocket burns methane. A cow does not.
- JT114881, on 04/21/2008, -1/+16*Pictures Spike from Cowboy Bebop lighting one up on an afterburner*
- ohmysac, on 04/21/2008, -0/+13You need an oxidizer for things to burn, such as oxygen. Methane alone will not ignite.
- dema, on 04/21/2008, -1/+14Stop by the Malachi Constant Methane Station & Food-Mart for all your travel needs!
- schnikies79, on 04/21/2008, -0/+13lol, nevermind dude..
- LtXenodite, on 04/21/2008, -2/+14Doesn't mean everyone trolls Digg 24/7 and sees every single story.
- Nighthawke, on 04/21/2008, -0/+12A classic example of Mach or Shock diamonds would be the SR-71 Blackbird on afterburner. Its P&W J-75 "Godzilla" engines generating 32,500 lbs thrust on reheat, creates 25 ft long tails of man-made hell, containing no fewer than 13 shock diamonds.
- MrMax99, on 04/21/2008, -7/+18Haha I like the little fart at the end.
- alittleroy101, on 04/21/2008, -0/+111232 is the 13th century, not the 11th.
- JonTheGoose, on 04/21/2008, -0/+11We could set up a gas mining colony there and have Billy Dee Williams run the place.
- farrc, on 04/21/2008, -1/+12That thing blows
- gandhii, on 04/21/2008, -0/+10And whose ass are you pulling those numbers out of and then misrepresenting? Its just a video and a small description. There is no mention of costs of the test or the development project as a whole.
- Peavey, on 04/21/2008, -0/+10The light flickered, but then he realized that NASA is going to design a test propulsion unit with a maximum theoretical force and build the test bench to not move when that amount of force is exerted.
- allengeer, on 04/21/2008, -0/+10***** in the methane is added to gas lines so that you can tell when there is a gas leak. in the methane they are using for this rocket engine... it is odorless.
- gandhii, on 04/21/2008, -2/+12Who was contracted by NASA. ie.. it's NASA's.
- crapmatic, on 04/21/2008, -0/+10http://www.xcor.com/press-releases/2007/07-01-16_X ...
Only 7500 lbs of thrust, but still cool. - inactive, on 04/21/2008, -0/+9If you watch closely, you can see the engine shift a bit at the moment of ignition.
And the sound of the ignition is awesome. - Static88, on 04/21/2008, -1/+10Diamonds cant talk...
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