Heretic!astro said:
I would add that the green fire you see at the engines burning themselves to bits. They were still pumping oxygen but not the methane. So highly reactive hot oxygen, starts reacting with everything and the copper lines are chewed up. Hence green flames.
your namesake should indicate otherwise. :lol:astro said:
Oh fuck off you tiresome asshole.astro said:
Hell, it almost took him down to his last $90,000,000,000.chum said:
Well, actually, we never did that. Too late now, I live about 4,000 miles away. Dammit.
totally.. was into those things for a couple years.. spent every penny on rockets and motors and the local hobby shop. Which also sold waterproof fuse, which we used instead of electric ignitors. I had the infamous Cam-roc. which was the 60s version of the drone with camera.. except the picture quality was shit. and you had to pay to get the film developed in order to see your shit picture. maybe 1 in 5 pics was worth seeing. I think we used a c67 rocket motor in those which gave a 7 second delay on the ejection charge. allowing the rocket to tip over back toward the ground. The ejection charge would trip the shutter and pop the chute.
Guilty as charged.. I Mail ordered rockets from Estes Catalogs in 1966-67 with a buddy in Hi School. Estes would sent free stuff with orders. The free Cloud Buster was just that, a Long , strong thrust engine. In a tube just as big as the engine. Launched with a match light fuse from a homemade pad out on frozen Lake Huron in front of our house in winter. It just disappeared up into the overcast sky. Gone till I heard the pop, then it floated back into sight. When my sister bought the homestead she tossed out 100s of USD in old not yet built / built kits. Those old kits get good money now on-line.
Had a neighbor that spent a lot of time building the perfect Saturn 5 and had the same thing happen on the first launch. They also sent lizards to their untimely demise in the "X-ray" payload model. My pre-teen budget didn't allow multi engine and multi stage rockets but was glad the neighbor kids had them.
Prototype. Sunk cost in the program most likely. I'm not sure even Lloyds would underwrite Elon's test articles this early in the game. Insurance probably only for damage to others.
