Amatuer rocket? Amatu...ER ROCKET? Wha....

Must have been MythBusters, yup!

Standard fare, no? :haha:

Amateur rocketry has gone pretty far these days. IF i'm not mistaken, the current SpaceShip Two uses a rubber cement and NO2 Rocket engine.

If you wanted to really hack something together, all you'd need to do is combine those in a large metal cylinder, and voila! Instant rocket engine.

Of course it's not THAT simple, but it's close. Try these articles for example:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80...uman-to-space/

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/...ned-spacecraft


Now think how hard it would be for a amateur / private company to be building something similar on the sly, and think that firing it 30 miles off shore would be sufficient to hide it?

LA has lots of money and people and an ocean. It's actually very feasible to be done there.

And yes.... they built their own sub to tow their launch platform :doh:.


And of course, as another article mentions, it can fail very easily.

They had a hairdryer (???) fail in their rocket and they have to postpone it till June.

Meh. Something like that would never happen...
Crazy, unrealistic ideas.

It's probably just testing for faking the next moon landing.

They did THAT last week! The new thing is mini big bangs, you, you....

Big bangs?

Wasn't that back in the 80's?

One question can scud missile produce similar contrail or a much less noticeable one? Just wondering if scuds would produce contrails at all.

That contrail is so big . . . .

The TG guys wanted to have another crack at launching a car?:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p38V9y808dY

Sweet! They should team up with the Master Blasters. :arrgh!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMBOTLJn3FA


CAUTION: Mini Cooper fans, avert thine eyes. :haha:

Contrails from an aircraft :har:

Ive witnessed shuttle launches first hand three times now and it looks remarkably similar to these 'contrails from an aircraft'.

That long plume of smoke and vapors being 'pulled' out of the earth are hard to forget.

http://www.welt.de/multimedia/archiv...D_1252297p.jpg

That assumed plane right of the tip of the smoke trail - relative from the smoke trail, is it in the front, side or rear area of the smoke trail's tip/assumed rocket/missiles?

I wonder if somebody could have tried to go after that plane, using a self-constructed/unidentified kind of missile?!?

Official word is now 'aircraft contrail'

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n7041217.shtml

Pretty thick contrail. :haha:

perhaps it's a..err..weather balloon...err...taking off