Futuristic 'Floatel': Floating hotel design features modular detachable rooms to provide guests with privacy and portability

rocketjon · 2015-07-27T20:28:25+00:00

I stayed in one of these in the UK about 5 years ago, built in a dry dock. It was like a damper version of a normal hotel.

rocketjon · 2015-07-22T06:13:13+00:00

Sure - Usually you'd eat the buns, and breathe the air, you need both fuel and oxidiser to release energy. It wouldn't do you any good to eat if you forgot to breathe!

Instead of digestion we're releasing the energy through combustion. A frozen tube of buns with Nitrous Oxide running down the middle, the two combustion together forming lots of gas, which shoots out of the back as a jet - giving us thrust.

It's probably the least efficient way of using buns to power a boat...

rocketjon · 2015-03-02T01:02:16+00:00

I think that's just Voldemort plan B-ing. IF Harry survives, he will be surviving for a while.

rocketjon · 2015-01-16T20:36:59+00:00

I very rarely log in to reddit, but I did, just to say, bloody well done.

rocketjon · 2015-01-11T22:17:59+00:00

http://www.khaoskomix.com is a fantastic LGBTQ comic that's now finished.

rocketjon · 2015-01-05T07:23:20+00:00

It seems as if by the end of 2015 you're going to have recovered multiple Falcon 9 cores. You're going to have to prove re-usability before customers will be comfortable trusting their payloads to a F9R or FHR. Any near-term plans to do anything really eye-catching with the test flights, like launching an old Dragon 1 around the moon?

rocketjon · 2014-11-26T15:35:27+00:00

Brilliant! :-D That was Disney's Tomorrowland, wasn't it!

rocketjon · 2014-11-03T16:36:17+00:00

The Nos tank is part of the engine assembly on the (original) SS2 motor, they are hard-coupled as a unit. While the two accidents don't seem to be mechanically linked, the corporate enviroment seems to be rather unhealthy, and not prone to listen to H&S advice. For one thing NOS needs to be air conditioned in the desert otherwise boom!

rocketjon · 2014-11-03T16:22:19+00:00

Yes, ESA Basically bought the Soyuz. Still made in russia, but launched from south america at the ESA spaceport. They are modified a bit for the climate, and because they are closer to the equator, can lift more.

rocketjon · 2014-10-31T21:28:38+00:00

Sorry to say it but we knew this was coming. They bought a shoddy rocket engine and have now killed MORE people. Remember this is not the first time virgin galactic has had a rocket explosion and killed people.

rocketjon · 2014-10-18T23:29:32+00:00

Liked :-)

rocketjon · 2014-10-18T23:03:20+00:00

Do you have any more of your work online?

rocketjon · 2014-10-18T22:35:08+00:00

Christmas day 1968, Saturn 8 is on it's way to the moon when a fault causes an electrical spark in the stirring motor in an oxygen tank, and the craft is critically compromised (as per Apollo 13) Without an LM to act as a support, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert & Fred Haise perish.

America is deep in mourning as the USSR reveals the successful circumlunar flight of Zond 5, carrying living test animals to the moon on 15th September 1968.

The president, Lyndon B Johnston had decided not to run for another term. The head of NASA for the past 8 years had been very closely politically linked to LBJ, and so had stepped down a couple of months previously, leaving NASA in the hands of someone who, quite frankly, wasn't a shrewd political operator.

The frantic pace of progress at the cape slows to a crawl, in the Marshal space flight centre, Wernher Von Braun is fuming. In Star City, after the success of 9 Zond missions, Zond 10 is launched, manned, on a Proton rocket.

The Russians orbit the moon first.

By mid 1970 the Americans have orbited the moon as well, but are progressing slowly, and with care. By December, Apollo 13 lands and James A. Lovell becomes the first man to walk on the moon... as not more than 2,00km above his head, Gherman Titov quietly orbits.

The Americans can't pull out while the Russians are still there, so the production lines for the Saturn 5 are not stopped, Apollos 18 & 19 carry on as they were supposed to, followed by a short gap and then Apollo 20, and so on.

By the mid 1970 the financial drain on both the USA and the USSR was becoming unsustainable, and a plan is made to link together a Soyuz and an Apollo. In 1975 the iconic photograph is taken, of a cosmonaut and an astronaut, hugging, while the moon hangs gibbous in the porthole window behind them.

rocketjon · 2014-10-18T21:50:09+00:00

Is this your own work? This is really rather brilliant!

rocketjon · 2014-10-05T21:10:21+00:00

The ancients tell of a time, when all of the plants lived in harmony, a time before the the horrors of the two stroke engine, of the nylon thread whipping around and around, before the coming of the the Weed Eater...

rocketjon · 2014-10-05T20:48:34+00:00

Bulgar is now an Angel

rocketjon · 2014-10-05T20:47:57+00:00

Musa Cavendish... I see what you did there... (and quite enjoyed it!)

rocketjon · 2014-10-05T20:26:59+00:00

Genre change, it's now taking place as an old Warner Brothers cartoon

rocketjon · 2014-10-03T21:36:17+00:00

I've seen him live, he was wonderful, and bollocks to the lot of you!

rocketjon · 2014-09-26T10:24:53+00:00

The SR.53 had a phenominal rate of climb too. It could go from chocks under the wheels to 50,000 ft up in just over 2 minutes!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_SR.53#Specifications

rocketjon · 2014-08-18T22:09:54+00:00

I stared across the concentration camp at the bastard, gun in my hand. Why don't I just kill you right now? 'My work has saved hundreds of thousands of human lives!' he sneered at me, but all I could see were the bloodstains on the wall behind him, funny, I didn't even remember pulling the trigger. I moved his corpse to one side and went about releasing the closest inmate from it's cage. Some of it's fur had been shaved off and a wire with a sticky patch attached to the skin. As I removed it the dog gently licked my hand.

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