Sunday, April 12, 2015

Thailand Space Program


 
hat tip AllenS

6 comments:

Aridog said...

Now that's cool...better than plain old fireworks :-)

Chip Ahoy said...

Last week I wrote to a friend about these and mentioned they remind me of the pull string copter toys. Except these are not propellers, just a flat board with rockets attached. If they would flex the board for something approximating a propeller I bet they'd have better luck.

A propeller screws into the air theirs lifts, when it does, by brute rocket force.

He wrote back, "Those were one of my favorite toys!"

There are several of these videos. One region of Thailand does this. That's why I wrote the guy. One of the videos goes on and on and on showing all the failures throughout the day. Interesting rituals that the teams perform. Kind of like Mardi Gras crews. Some of the rituals are quite elaborate and practiced.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

That was completely stupid just before it became totally awesome.

Methadras said...

Hire these guys at NASA. They couldn't be any worse.

john said...

With available balsa wood technology, you could probably make one twice that diameter that would go half again as high.

We need some of these whirly-gigs over here for the 4th of July.

Aridog said...

Can't wait until Amazon develops a heavier lift version of these things so they can dump bigger crap in your yard....and likely in to some strangers hands thereafter. At least they'd be more entertaining than the crawly-spider-bot whirligigs they are testing in Canada.

PS: If I lived in the way out country, I'd figure the Amazon bot/drones were fine high rise Trap Shooting targets....like the cool 90 degree up numbers at Lackland AFB ranges.