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Your comment is needlessly dismissive about a benchtop experiment that doesn't really compare to something like Starship and the engines that it uses. This is
by Teever 3y ago
Your comment is needlessly dismissive about a benchtop experiment that doesn't really compare to something like Starship and the engines that it uses.
This is really neat. It doesn't have to be groundbreaking to be really cool, but who knows maybe one day it will be.
- kloch 3y agoIndeed many (most?) technology breakthroughs and great products start as "garage" experiments. - Aviation didn't start with someone rolling out a 747, it started with the Wright Flyer - something that barely flew with just the right winds. - Apple, Inc. literally started in a garage with an 8-bit computer with 8k ram and you had to provide your own case and power supply, monitor, and keyboard. - The early stages of modern rocket technology looked not much different than this experiment: Here's a video of Goddard testing at his Aunt's farm: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ac/Robert_Goddard_footage.ogv/Robert_Goddard_footage.ogv.240p.vp9.webm https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/... > "The neighbors complained"
- Teever 3y agohttp://www.zenpencils.com/comic/64-robert-h-goddard-the-rocket-man/ http://www.zenpencils.com/comic/64-robert-h-goddard-the-rock...