Comments on: Science Friday: Low Budget Edition

By: Dierna

Dierna — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:47:18 +0000

Chris Pike:

There’s no NGC 1701 but NGC 1700 is the Epsilon Eridani system (you know, where Spock’s from). *lol*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanus_(constellation)

By: Darth Quixote

Darth Quixote — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:44:44 +0000

#12

You’d wear a G-suit. Squeezes blood from your legs back up to your vitals.

That micro-spacecraft looks like a hell of a ride. I’d do it if I didn’t hate the idea of somebody explaining my explosive death to my son.

By: DAK23

DAK23 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:54:41 +0000

Hey, #4… HMS Habbakuk. Winston Churchill was reportedly so impressed by the fact that this stuff wouldn’t melt in his tub, decided to build and aircraft carrier out of it, but the war ended before it could be completed.

By: MrRegular

MrRegular — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:50:01 +0000

Nosecone?? I saw Gus Grissom’s Mercury Spacecraft a few years ago and a person of medium size could barely fit inside the cramped interior.
Think I’ll leave this ride to the daredevils!

By: mooseday

mooseday — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:45:52 +0000

“but being smashed into a tiny transparent coffin described as having “only limited arm movement”

Hey, I’ve already flown Air Canada, so this seems a much more civilized way to travel .. zzzzing!

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:08:56 +0000

Coming home to find that ‘Triffid-like’ thing scuttling about would freak me out….

Nice pic of the deep galaxies, you can never tire of those.

Go Bloodhound….go! Makes yer proud to be British….even if it is madness….though not as mad as that single spacerocket torpedo….

Another nice round-up of the sublime and the the ridiculous.

By: ETMoody3

ETMoody3 — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:11:58 +0000

Hey, a little research…

http://www.bloodhoundssc.com

Looks like this is being cooked up by the same crew who made Thrust and Thrust SSC… Too cool.

Mr Noble most certainly knows of the Black Rock Desert. It may not be long and smooth enough for this car! ( uh, you can see the curvature of the earth, it’s so big and flat, but hey distances go by fast at M1.4…)

By: Charles H. Root, III

Charles H. Root, III — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:10:29 +0000

Do NOT, let me say it again, do NOT get in that Micro Spacecraft wearing a red shirt!

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:13:16 +0000

If you go for the rocket ride, are you allowed to bring scotch tape?

By: Kayla Iacovino

Kayla Iacovino — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:57:33 +0000

@27 My bad! Here is a link to the Doctor Atomic website!

http://www.doctor-atomic.com/