Solid rocket booster ride!

smith3198

At about a minute and 12 seconds when you see the speedometer in the top of the screen reach 700 mph and it breaks the speed of sound is amazing. I've never seen any video like this. To ride a rocket to the edge of the atmosphere and then fall back to Earth. The sounds are incredible. And when the SRB comes crashing back into earths atmosphere is crazy.

emmcee1

That was awesome, thanks for sharing.

smith3198

Thanks Emmcee1. I was looking for something else and I came across a bunch of videos like that. And I thought they were just stunning. You get to ride a rocket to the edge of space! The awesome power displayed from lift off to separation from the shuttle and the intense reentry into Earth's atmosphere is just amazing! It's incredible that man has been able to do this!

emmcee1

Yeah, and that's the technology they only "want" is to know. What do they have there keeping from us? That's why iam obsessed with formula one. It's incredible that man can build something like that and be so sufficient.

smith3198

Absolutely....!

emmcee1

The engines only weigh 90kg and are the size of two large cereal boxes. To extract the power and response they do is amazing. The ability to corner at those rediculous speeds due to the downforce and unbeleivable tyres. The ability to repair or replace parts so quick. It's incredible. Mind boggling when you break it down. These cars have enough downforce that they could drive upside down. Crazy hey?

Beleive it or not, but watching f1 and following it as obsessively as I do, it has allowed me to appreciate anything mechanical like that man makes. Love motogp, fighter jets, space shuttles, anything that's amazing like that.

TwiztidThorn

Such an amazing accomplishment that you don't really appreciate until you see something like this.

smith3198

TwiztidThorn wrote:

Such an amazing accomplishment that you don't really appreciate until you see something like this.

That's exactly what I thought.
I remember I would see the Space shuttle launches on TV but you don't really get the full gist of it.
This is pretty much like being on the rocket without the excruciating death part..

NeoSEC28

Thats an awesome bit of footage :thumbup: Well worth sharing

smith3198

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smith3198

Take the ride!

emmcee1

Check out this crazy sh!7. 250cc supercart race around the crazy Isle of Man.

smith3198

emmcee1 wrote:

Check out this crazy sh!7. 250cc supercart race around the crazy Isle of Man.

That was awesome! I need to get one of those!! Right at 35 seconds the lead driver seems to go through some type of obstacle,? I can't quite make out what it is. I thought it was 2 piles of snow at first! How are they allowed to race around residential streets like that! Or at least they look like residential streets.

emmcee1

smith3198 wrote:

emmcee1 wrote:

Check out this crazy sh!7. 250cc supercart race around the crazy Isle of Man.

That was awesome! I need to get one of those!! Right at 35 seconds the lead driver seems to go through some type of obstacle,? I can't quite make out what it is. I thought it was 2 piles of snow at first! How are they allowed to race around residential streets like that! Or at least they look like residential streets.

Isle of Man hosts a famous motorcycle race there every year. It's crazy, so many have been killed there, but it's ultimate test against man and machine. One lap is a lap around the entire island, it's like 67km for one lap, it's amazing. Those "obstacles" are chicanes, there meant to slow the driver down. As you could see, they don't really fase the drivers much. Big balls for this stuff, one mistake=death.

smith3198

That was sick. those are go carts on steroids. I've never seen one's that go that fast!
When I was 11 years old we used to live near a go kart track and during the day The owners of the track would let my brother and I test out the go carts that they had fixed during the Day when they were closed. If they were malfunctioning or whatever. When the mechanics fixed them they would let my brother and I take them out for A few laps to test them out. I always took the blue sparkly helmet with the American flag sticker on the back. That is a special memory I have from childhood.

But man those Karts in that video Are something else!

emmcee1

That would be awesome. I love driving carts, that's why Iam looking at buying my own. Iam looking at 125cc watercooled. Not as fast as those supercarts but the do 120kmh flatout. Those supercarts are about 15-20k