I have an idea for a new thread...

[shova1]

[Robbie Stewart]

Bundesarchiv_Bild_141-1880,_Peenemünde,_Start_einer_V2.jpg

It started in Europe : 

 

http://museum-peenemuende.de/the-museum/ausstellungen/?lang=en

 

This is the website for the Peenemunde site where Hitler initiated the V2 rocket program, which was captured by the US at the end of the war. The scientific advancements made by the Nazis were not lost on the U.S., and they helped some of the leading scientists to defect to the US mainland in exchange for sharing their knowledge, which eventually helped NASA become what it is today.

 

 

The novel, Space, by James A. Michener is also a very good read in this regard, as it tells the story from a historically accurate point of view. I read it as a teen, and I am tempted to read it again after all this.

 

[Piston ZA]

[Rata-tat-tat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUyU3lKzoio

That company scares me.

[Rapunzel]

27658099_1526316290809318_3568437438224235094_n.jpg I am not as impressed by the distance through Africa he has covered (1500km) or the time he's been at it (more than 1.5 years) as I am by the choice of cycling shoe... This pappie (Viktor Surin) is now entering the desert region of Western Cape from the relative greenery of the Namib, give him a shout out if you spot him 

he's very serious about protecting his rear derailleur!

[Shebeen]

http://museum-peenemuende.de/the-museum/ausstellungen/?lang=en

 

This is the website for the Peenemunde site where Hitler initiated the V2 rocket program, which was captured by the US at the end of the war. The scientific advancements made by the Nazis were not lost on the U.S., and they helped some of the leading scientists to defect to the US mainland in exchange for sharing their knowledge, which eventually helped NASA become what it is today.

 

peenemuende_das_museum_austellungen_010-1024x683.jpg

 

The novel, Space, by James A. Michener is also a very good read in this regard, as it tells the story from a historically accurate point of view. I read it as a teen, and I am tempted to read it again after all this.

 

Space.jpg

awesome, i will go look for that book. should be in the library.

 

I was blown away by the science museum in Munich. those germans invented pretty much everything.

 

here is the V2 in the opening hallway (i know you can see them elsewhere, but it's more impressive in its homeland for some reason)

http://www.deutsches-museum.de/typo3temp/pics/aa002ff28f.jpg

[Eldron]

That company scares me.

Agreed. I can hear the opening theme tune to The Terminator In my head as that video plays...

[Slowbee]

[mon-goose]

insane

[J∆kk∆ls]

[DJR]

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Love Gary Larsons' warped sense of humour

[Stoffel76]

Mad!

 

There is, however, a high school physics exams question in there somewhere...

 

A freefalling skydiver makes use of a net instead of a parachute to break his fall.  He is travelling at a terminal velocity of 200km/h when he hits the net and comes to rest in 1.5 sec.  What G-force does his body experience?

 

Bonus question: If 50 G's is the maximum a human body can withstand and survive, is the skydiver now:

a) Dead

b) Just plain crazy

 

[The Guy in Pink]

Mad!

 

There is, however, a high school physics exams question in there somewhere...

 

A freefalling skydiver makes use of a net instead of a parachute to break his fall.  He is travelling at a terminal velocity of 200km/h when he hits the net and comes to rest in 1.5 sec.  What G-force does his body experience?

 

Bonus question: If 50 G's is the maximum a human body can withstand and survive, is the skydiver now:

a) Dead

b) Just plain crazy

 

He experienced only 3.8 G's  therefore he survived . b) is the correct answer

[Stoffel76]

He experienced only 3.8 G's  therefore he survived . b) is the correct answer

2 out of 2. Congratulations, you pass Wasting-Time-on-the-Hub-While-I-should-be-Working 101

[MTBeer]

a=(v-u)/t = 3.77m/s^2

[MTBeer]

last used that formula while studying in 1990ish