Author Topic: Who need's Rockets?  (Read 1422 times)

Why does NASA need rockets if they can do this? :cookieMonster:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10354588-1.html?tag=mncol
I was a little bit surprised at this.
« Last Edit: September 16, 2009, 10:46:27 PM by The Russian »


You're an idiot.
I wasn't seriously asking why NASA needs rockets.
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« Last Edit: September 16, 2009, 10:49:49 PM by The Russian »

thats actually pretty cool

Surprising how it actually got up to 93,000 feet.

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Their project's total cost for everything was $148, cheap enough anyone could try it.

And Nasa spent a billions of dollars to get satalites for pictures into space.

Menen, start the car. We have a camera to launch into space.
« Last Edit: September 16, 2009, 11:40:33 PM by A.R.C. »

They shoulda made the camera point down so you can see the earth straight down.

They shoulda made the camera point down so you can see the earth straight down.
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Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh, M.I.T. students, had a goal of flying a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the earth
They didn't want none of those types of pictures, son :I

They didn't want none of those types of pictures, son :I
Girlfriend told him!

I'm just saying you still might have been able to see the curvature.

I'm just saying you still might have been able to see the curvature.

No you didn't.

They shoulda made the camera point down so you can see the earth straight down.

NASA uses rockets because there is no way to lift all their equipment into space.

Unless you just mean for pictures, then it seems like a good idea....

NASA uses rockets because there is no way to lift all their equipment into space.

Unless you just mean for pictures, then it seems like a good idea....
That's what he meant.
I wasn't seriously asking why NASA needs rockets.
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