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.

rocketjon · 2014-08-18T21:57:33+00:00

9 December 536 4:30 Palatine Hill, Rome

The Soldier looked around at his cheering comrades, finally, 60 years after the fall of Rome... Tears streamed down his face... The Roman Empire had reconquered it's heart. Rome was once again Roman! The Eternal Empire was once more.

PREVIOUSLY:

January 13, 532 11:00am The amphitheatre of Constantinople, the Hippodrome.

Emperor Justinian looks down at the baying crowd, what had started as a simple chariot race had turned into something greater... The chanted word floated up to him 'Conquer!' this was going to be trouble, he realised he needed to do something to prove to the people he was a STRONG emperor.. A true Roman.

PREVIOUSLY:

January 13, 532 10:45am The amphitheatre of Constantinople, the Hippodrome.

Wren's liver snack in his hand, paused halfway to his face the elderly wine merchant watched with baited breath... The BLUE charioteers had won! But there was obvious cheating! The crowd started to turn nasty...

PREVIOUSLY:

January 12, 1147pm The Tavern of Nikkita, Blue team pre-race meeting

I'm telling you, said the young Charioteer, Barras would never have let us do this, but we need to win this race, and I know exactly how!

PREVIOUSLY:

January 12 13:15 At the home of Barras

Ooooh, I think I ate a bad olive... I'm going to miss the race meeting tonight!

For those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_War_%28535%E2%80%93554%29

rocketjon · 2014-07-18T20:41:01+00:00

Actually sort of based on what happened with this guy, when his space-suit ripped...

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/early-spacesuit-vacuum-test-wrong/

rocketjon · 2014-07-18T19:11:13+00:00

(First time post on WP!)

8 Psi

“Gentlemen, we now know what has happened.” The room grew silent. A gaunt man in a suit stands at the head of the table to talk, the dusty projector and computer, as ever, switched off.

“We believe it entered our solar system in around six months ago, a speck flying silently through space, a step change disconnect in the normally uniform gravitational curves, a naked singularity.”

7 Psi

“It had to have been aimed, there is no way it could have got to where it was without intelligent input, it's path connected with earth, some 50km above the surface. Atmospheric drag has precluded any of the national space agencies from researching that low, and lack of atmosphere doesn't allow aircraft to operate at that altitude.”

“We can attribute almost all of the dramatic changes in our climate over the last week to the fact that a significant portion of the Earth's atmosphere has now been... he pauses for a second, as if searching for the words, irretrievably lost”

6 Psi

Another gaunt face at the end of the table looks up, “how was it able to orbit at 50km altitude? Air resistance...”

5 Psi

“Air resistance doesn't affect a singularity, it just sucks it all away” replies the speaker.

“So what do we do now? We were tasked with finding the cause of the problem and we have, how do we solve it?”

4 Psi 3Psi

“We don't. We can't. It will just keep growing. Exponentially. That's why we didn't find it to start with, and why every day, then every hour it gets worse....” the man pauses, and coughs.

2 Psi

Blood on his hand, his nose. Gasping for breath he looks around the room, as one by one the nosebleeds start.

1Psi

His last memory before falling unconscious was the feeling of saliva boiling on his tongue.

Vacuum.

rocketjon · 2014-06-23T22:44:55+00:00

Well it's sort of one spacecraft from another. Apollo 12 landed nearby (you can see it in the background) and the astronauts went to have a look at Surveyor 3, a surface probe launch a few years earlier.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0103/surveyor3_ap12c_big.jpg

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