need a light? NASA tests new rocket (video)

HunterICX · 09-11-09, 05:26 AM

test of a new solid rocket for the Ares 1

HunterICX

SteamWake · 09-11-09, 09:44 AM

Pretty cool but I have to observe...

That thing just spit out 10 times more hydrocarbons in 20 seconds than all my cars in their entire lifetime put together.

AVGWarhawk · 09-11-09, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

Pretty cool but I have to observe...

That thing just spit out 10 times more hydrocarbons in 20 seconds than all my cars in their entire lifetime put together.

Are you going green on us?

SteamWake · 09-11-09, 10:18 AM

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Are you going green on us?

No not at all its just an observation with all this obsessing over 'drive a hybrid' seems a little moot when you witness something like this.

Ive been to a couple of shuttle launches and the same amusement crossed my mind as I looked about at all the micro cars and bicycles while this behomoth is spitting 10's of thousands of tons of hydrocarbons.

Im neither here nor there with the green thing but trust me someone somewhere is protesting.

AngusJS · 09-11-09, 11:15 AM

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Im neither here nor there with the green thing but trust me someone somewhere is protesting.

How many millions of innocent blades of grass were burnt alive in that test? For shame NASA, for shame.

AVGWarhawk · 09-11-09, 11:16 AM

Yeah, good point on the belching filth from the rocket motors. It does some how seem moot when discussing a hybrid car saving the planet when one of these babies dumps hundred of tons in the atmosphere.

SteamWake · 09-11-09, 11:26 AM

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Yeah, good point on the belching filth from the rocket motors. It does some how seem moot when discussing a hybrid car saving the planet when one of these babies dumps hundred of tons in the atmosphere.

Not to mention air traffic.. but hey Ive already diverted the thread enough.

AVGWarhawk · 09-11-09, 11:32 AM

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How many millions of innocent blades of grass were burnt alive in that test? For shame NASA, for shame.

Prolly a roasted field mouse also. PETA?

AngusJS · 09-11-09, 11:32 AM

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Yeah, good point on the belching filth from the rocket motors. It does some how seem moot when discussing a hybrid car saving the planet when one of these babies dumps hundred of tons in the atmosphere.

I don't know. That's like saying the annual California brushfire has already wiped out thousands of acres, so why bother to put out the small grassfire in your backyard. Why wouldn't you want to diminish an undesirable effect when it's possible to do so?

AVGWarhawk · 09-11-09, 11:37 AM

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I don't know. That's like saying the annual California brushfire has already wiped out thousands of acres, so why bother to put out the small grassfire in your backyard. Why wouldn't you want to diminish an undesirable effect when it's possible to do so?

Good point. I wonder if anyone has ever looked at just how much is dumped into the air then compared it to say a year of automobiles dumping and at what amount?

Task Force · 09-11-09, 02:40 PM

Ill take 2...

SteamWake · 09-11-09, 04:03 PM

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Ill take 2...

call me in the morning

Stealth Hunter · 09-12-09, 12:50 PM

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How many millions of innocent blades of grass were burnt alive in that test? For shame NASA, for shame.

Not many. They're in Utah.

Platapus · 09-12-09, 01:24 PM

Since we are being silly...

Does any care that this rocket test altered the orbit of the earth just a tiny bit and that may have more effects on the future weather patterns???

Now if we can only cooperate with the Chinese so that their rocket tests nudge us back where we belong.....

Sledgehammer427 · 09-12-09, 02:51 PM

when that rocket fired up I said "wow, look at that puppy go"
that musta been a sight to see though, I would go to the back and pick up all the glass after it's all cooled down

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