The Modacity Space Race

Hello and welcome to the Modacity Space Race!

Construction of our nation's first rocket has already begun; the MSC V1.
Version one of the rocket is merely a test run, V2 is already in its planning stages.

As you can see here in one of very advanced clean rooms the MSC V1 is already in its final stages of construction.
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...ion/rocket.jpg

Launch is planned for this afternoon, weather permitting.

The MSC V2 will feature a more advanced engine:
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...on/engines.jpg

The MSC V2 will be a night launch if all goes well with V1.

I do hope that we eventually reach the moon.
Any able and willing aerospace engineers out there are welcome to join in on the cause and construct their own MSC.

I am the pilot.

God speed, you fancy bastards!

Put an E in it :)

I am the co-pilot

Good thing there's no plans for a return.

You'll never make it you fools! Space is meant for monkeys with tentacles, not human beings!

brb spacebuild

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Originally Posted by Choking Victim

Good thing there's no plans for a return.

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My previously launched anti-air and anti-space satellite will make sure this non existent plan falls through. Sorry guys, I already beat you guys with an orbiting electromagnetic satellite.

Launch delayed until tonight due to humanoids in the blast radius.
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...n/IMG_2089.jpg

He's on a boat.

I was not aware.

Nor do you apparently get 'it' lol

You all can help by drafting designs of the MSC V2.

The rocket is now directed to attack the modacity servers. Me, still being the pilot.

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Originally Posted by MrBig

You all can help by drafting designs of the MSC V2.

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http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7426/mscv2.jpg

Nice fancy arrows!

Seriously though, once you finish V2 make V3 a multi-engine rocket... Did that in Cadets with these little toy motors, wired up an ignition fuse into three different rocket motors in a custom made rocket... It just exploded on the pad but it was still pretty cool!

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Originally Posted by Freelancer

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7426/mscv2.jpg

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Space Command estimates the trajectory to be headed towards the Urmom Sector.

On the pad
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...ission/msc.jpg



Launch!
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...ion/launch.jpg

And the successful lift off of MSC V1!

DEE should begin beaming down images from orbit momentarily

Rocket will remain in orbit until modacity servers crests over the horizon.

The current view from the missile.


I just rubbed one out in 0-gravity.
It's like a fucking snow globe in here now.

E:it all accumulated at the other side of the cock pit, should be ok now.

Co-Pilot log
DAY 1

The take off and manuvering into standered orbit went off with out a hitch, The view was simply breath taking... untill I heard my senior officer make a strange noise and what resembled a flake from a snow globe fly and hit the window. Realizing what he had done and seeing more of these ,fakes, heading my way I have went to a different section of the command center, now these white , flakes, have built up where our food is. Good thing i brought an extra bag of chips with me.

End Log

Subsequent supply missions ended in failure.
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...0/IMG_2104.jpg

I'm sorry sir. The missile hit about 16 yards away from the initial launch zone due to the heavy payload of cum.

lol

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Originally Posted by MrBig

Subsequent supply missions ended in failure.
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...0/IMG_2104.jpg

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we lost lodex on that one

Oh noes im outta chips :ohdear:

What is the estimated time for deorbit burn?

Well we have 30,days of oxygen and water and unless DEE cleans up his mess at the food stores, we will only have enough back up rations to last for eight days

So i dont know when De Orbital burn will begin

WHO THE FUCK PUT JIZZ ON ALL THE FOOD?

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Originally Posted by Freelancer

Seriously though, once you finish V2 make V3 a multi-engine rocket... Did that in Cadets with these little toy motors, wired up an ignition fuse into three different rocket motors in a custom made rocket... It just exploded on the pad but it was still pretty cool!

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Yes, absolutely!

This was the very first thing that crossed my mind. With a multi-stage rocket, you'll be able to go so much farther. You would probably want some experience in digital circuits, though, to create a time delay for the second and third stages to detach and light. Otherwise, you could risk the entire thing blowing up.

Yea, our rocket was just in a:
OO
.O

Arrangement and all wired to fire at the same time, not in stages... Probably why it just blew up on the pad, so much force right off the bat.

You're really just asking for failure if you have multiple small engines firing at the same time. For one, although you can ignite them at the same time, they might light a few ms apart, which can leave your rocket spiraling out of control. Another problem would be the immense heat generated by the engines all at one time. Even if it launches, it could blow up mid-flight.

Multiple rockets firing at once also doesn't give you much of an advantage in distance. They provide a ton of thrust, yeah, but they all burn out at the same time. If you make your rocket with multiple firing stages, it should keep a constant velocity until the last stage burns out.

Just get a fucking JATO and strap your rocket to it.

build concrete launching pad.


set off 90 rockets covered in tinfoil.


watch as the airforce scrambles jets.

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Originally Posted by jcap

Yes, absolutely!

This was the very first thing that crossed my mind. With a multi-stage rocket, you'll be able to go so much farther. You would probably want some experience in digital circuits, though, to create a time delay for the second and third stages to detach and light. Otherwise, you could risk the entire thing blowing up.

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Actually, I think with these kinds of solid rockets that the delay is controlled mechanically/chemically via a slow-burning fuse. Been awhile since I last built one myself, so things might have changed.

It's been a long time since I've done it and I don't remember how, but there is some way in which you can stack them and stage the ignition.

Slow-burning fuses that are set up to burn consecutively is the trick, dont ask me about where to get them though.

I have a coil of firework fuses, do those burn hot enough to ignite them?

stacked multiple stage rockets are easy. just get the right motors.

These are all ~10 year old motors I found in my closet.

What Snaf said.

The first stage motor has a section in it that is used to ignite the motor above it when it jettisons. So on and so forth for each consecutive stage until the last one, which just has the usual clay plug of a normal rocket motor.

A friend of mine makes rocket avionics chips. Little thing the size of a USB flash drive that you stick in the nosecone of your rocket. You can attach several pyro wires to it and program it to burn the first stage, coast until it reaches a certain altitude, ignite the second stage, coast until it reaches apogee, discard a section, fall until it's 1000 feet above the ground, and then deploy the parachute.

He holds several world records, and one of his rockets has nearly broken mach 4 iirc. He builds them out of carbon fiber. All of them under half a meter tall.

You guys should do that.

Mine are made from painters tape and paper and can reach mach 9000

mach 9000 = 3,062,610 m/s


the speed of light = 299,792,458 m/s


Sir you are not fast enough.

Needs more flame stickers.

best thread in a year.

look at everyone jumping on this thread :D
need more of them.

agreed, thanks for the lulz

Jpeg and I already fired a rocket that reached law breaking speeds.


We got arrested.

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Originally Posted by ICEE

Jpeg and I already fired a rocket that reached law breaking speeds.


We got arrested.

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Ha

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Originally Posted by MrBig

Mine are made from painters tape and paper and can reach mach 9000

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mine go 9001.

MSC V2 75% complete.
http://derekdennison.codebrainshideo...ssion/msc2.jpg

Oh dear this won't end well

looks like you need to divert some more semen to structural integrity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP02_JR8r70

Oh dear, that did not end well.

fuck your space program. hire germans. problem solved.

is dee okay??

His testicles will never be able to function again.

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Originally Posted by MrBig

His testicles will never be able to function again.

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oh thank god

Oh this thread. :allears:

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Originally Posted by Cagerrin

oh thank god

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thats what I was going to say

I still have 5 left.

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Originally Posted by Cojafoji

fuck your space program. hire germans. problem solved.

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Russians would be better.

Because the Russians made it to the Moon...:realsmug:.

No srsly, hiring Germans is right.

How about a Russian immigrant living in and educated in Germany.

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Originally Posted by paladin

How about a Russian immigrant living in and educated in Germany.

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No. Germans power rockets with their pure blood.


Jesus man, did you miss that day in school?

Me and Sanctus might be interested in this. You could expect to see our own soon.

No germans allowed.

Good thing we're Italian :eng101:

Still think Russians would be best :nsmug:

russians are only good at guns ok. Germans are the best at everything

except porn

they're the best at that too.

Efukt is a shining symbol of that.

best is relevant.

Oi, now that I've managed to reset my password and login after forEVER.... I can now begin to explain my and Teekup's entry into this Space Race.

I finally got paid so now I can begin to stock up on chemicals to make fuel and buy a textbook to begin my research. I hope to come up with a valid design within the next two months.

Your bottle rocket is cute MrBig, but Teekup and I are aiming for at least 36,000 ft.
Let the race begin!!

http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress...et-science.jpg

Over commercial airliner altitude, eh? Be careful not to get charged with terrorism...:downs:.

:C

I'll try not to.... mwahahaha

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...onpostcard.png

Tough luck, boys. Better luck next time, yeah?

IT'S A FAKE! CONSPIRACY!

:downs:

photos taken on the moon can't be in colour. the atmospheric density(or lack thereof) prevents proper particle refraction, and thus colour cameras end up taking photos that look like grey blobs. also NASA had photoshop back in 1969, thanks to a time travel device built around tsiolkovsky's cryonically preserved brain.

Cagerrin: Don't you mean the gravity affects the particle refraction? I mean, apparently the moon contains water, so...

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Originally Posted by Cagerrin

photos taken on the moon can't be in colour. the atmospheric density(or lack thereof) prevents proper particle refraction, and thus colour cameras end up taking photos that look like grey blobs. also NASA had photoshop back in 1969, thanks to a time travel device built around tsiolkovsky's cryonically preserved brain.

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1) Wasn't trying to be scientifically accurate. Was going for kitsch. I just used Google.

2) Way to be a Debbie Downer about it, shit.

those of us who're outspoken on these subjects are taken away by men in blue vans and implanted. we can no longer record what we mean, and are thus forced to spread with oblique words the truths so callously taken from us.

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Originally Posted by Cagerrin

photos taken on the moon can't be in colour. the atmospheric density(or lack thereof) prevents proper particle refraction, and thus colour cameras end up taking photos that look like grey blobs. also NASA had photoshop back in 1969, thanks to a time travel device built around tsiolkovsky's cryonically preserved brain.

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What the hell?


Aeroywn, are you the one who hid all the water???

No, it was me. As some of you may remember, I used to live on the moon before I went to college. Remember that they haven't actually found water per se, they've found H2O in the soil. And, well, when you gotta go you gotta go, and when you've got all that open space you don't really need to be too discerning about where you do your business.

You told me you were from mars you son of a bitch.

^
"What a twist!"

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Originally Posted by Cagerrin

photos taken on the moon can't be in colour. the atmospheric density(or lack thereof) prevents proper particle refraction, and thus colour cameras end up taking photos that look like grey blobs. also NASA had photoshop back in 1969, thanks to a time travel device built around tsiolkovsky's cryonically preserved brain.

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If that were true accurate, then we wouldn't be able to take pictures in colour at all in space because there is no atmosphere to speak of there either. Unfortunately for your argument, we can. I think the washout in the pictures is due more to a combination of the massive glare from the surface and the primitive camera technology of the time.

(should really not be surprised that people are taking that seriously)

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Originally Posted by Cagerrin

(should really not be surprised that people are taking that seriously)

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It's kinda funny actually.

Well, if you're gonna be a smartass, at least try to make it funny...=|

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Originally Posted by Warsaw

Well, if you're gonna be a smartass, at least try to make it funny...=|

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He didn't have to. He really intended for people to take his post seriously so we could laugh at those taking him seriously.

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Originally Posted by Dwood

He didn't have to. He really intended for people to take his post seriously so we could laugh at those taking him seriously.

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If you want to think I actually planned that, then by all means...

hey

hey

more rockets less talk

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Originally Posted by Con

hey

hey

more rockets less talk

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Please out do me.

If I launch one of these into a friend like a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher will I get props?