Recent content by OrbitalConfusion

Getting close! almost 8 years later and I see the faint glow of the light at the end of the tunnel! Rocket engine is finally stable! I havent had a catastrophic failure for over a year now. However there have been several premature shut-downs. Luckily I have been able to track them down and...

I want to say thank you to everyone here. Over these past few years its been a great journey and one that continues. My endeavor to understand has hit 3 milestones and without you guys I would have never been able to wrap my head around some of the concepts that many of you may laugh at thinking...

So Elon Musk Makes a statement about using Nukes on the poles to change the ice into atmosphere on Mars. I know... Links... http://www.iflscience.com/space/elon-musk-says-we-could-terraform-mars-dropping-thermonuclear-bombs-it So I by my logic I am an idiot. In a nutshell: I stated the reason...

I love each and everyone one you, and I mean that. I spent a lot of time here reading and lurking. Everytime I post something searching for gold I end up with Diamonds. You all are so awesome! Thank you for the ideas! I have several raspberry pi's (B models) in my possession and have been...

I want to build a few different desktop or shelf size, cool looking Physics demonstrations. I am posting this to farm ideas... Cloud Chamber - I have a Peltier cooler. But i would need to find a suitable energetic sample to make it work well I suppose. I am not sure if its a good idea or not...

After re-reading my post.. I seemed very negative, especially towards the end. No, not at all. I have been salivating over this movie for a very long time. This was 'my movie. I need to see it again clearly. I intend to do it soon. Part of the problem was seeing it on an 80inch lcd tv complete...

I admit, I am very, very late to the party... I just watched it for the first time about 2 or 3 nights ago and since then I have been thinking a lot about it. It was a great sci-fi movie if you did not remain grounded in reality while watching it. It hits some spots like 2001/2010 did.. On human...

MOON was awesome! I bought it on some type of medie.. I think dvd. I liked interstellar, but the science fact ruined it. I kept screaming BS in my head while watching it and ruined it story wise. However the space scenes were amazing!

I just want to say, I put fake in the title to denote that this was complete ... Fake. I avoid conspiracy land because its mainly people wanting to believe in bs. I also try not to wander very far into physics land either because of some invisible line than can be crossed into conspiracy land...

Thanks Loru. I should have thought about the Star types. It was a latenight brainfart... the whole post was.. I try so hard to remember as much as possible. As soon as I step away from space I instantly start forgetting important terms. I know some here think I was trolling, but those questions...

I came across this little story while listening to a recording of a female cosmonaut who sounds very distressed. The cosmonaut is a story of its own and one I suspect we will never know the truth. But the idea was some cats over in Italy back in the mid 50's constructed a extraordinary HAM radio...

Ha! I assure you, I am no student in school. As for question 2, yeah I would like to know.. As for the rest it was to drum up opinions. I like hearing peoples thoughts, a lot. Seeing how the understand things and think and feel about them.

Its been a little while since I raided the forums here so I figured I might make a stop by. :) I just finished reading an article by space dot com on ghost galaxies. Approximately 4bn years ago a few galaxies were ripped apart and some of the stars are apparently wondering around the area...

I gave into temptation and constructed one. I turned a few different nozzle types and played around with it for a few hours. What is shown in the video does not produce much thrust. It is a cool toy, and I cannot help but play with it when bored. I actually got a response from a designer of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ2hOH23-zU I have the parts in my lab to construct one of these. Although I would have to turn a nozzle on my lathe, but I think I can make it. Does anyone know much about these engines? The skeptic that resides in my brain says thrust to weight is a big...