Europe's Biggest Amateur Rocket Completes Test-Firing 153
Michael Eriksen writes "The Danish amateur rocket group Copenhagen Suborbitals has successfully test fired their rocket (article in Danish). It is a 90,000 kW monster delivering a total of 140,000 N. According to the group, this is by far the biggest amateur rocket ever fired in Europe. The final goal is a manned (!) low-orbital flight."
Top Gear's Reliant Robin rocket? (Score:5, Interesting)
Exhaust nozzle blows off after a few seconds (Score:5, Interesting)
And so what... (Score:5, Interesting)
...because the North Koreans are militaristic nut cases
And would you claim that the Americans less militaristic nut cases than the North Koreans?
(Rhetorical question - you need not answer I've already prejudged you by reading the second amendment).
The same guys who built the Submarine (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:And so what... (Score:3, Interesting)
Offtopic, I just couldn't help but wonder:
...because the North Koreans are militaristic nut cases
And would you claim that the Americans less militaristic nut cases than the North Koreans?
Background: I am not an American. The GP drew a comparison between NK and Denmark.
The USA is a seriously militaristic country but their leadership consists of reasonably balanced people. The NK leadership consists largely of one person who is almost certainly terminally ill and quite likely unbalanced.
I occasionally work in S Korea. With this missile test coming up (presumably whenever the NK rocket techs get the thing to fire) I plan to stay safely in Australia. There is something spookily serious about the South Koreans. I think it extends to the north as well. I think there will eventually be another Korean war, though it may be a short one.
Thanks for the explanation (Score:3, Interesting)
Hint Re:Rocket fuel for thought... (Score:2, Interesting)
To think for oneself does not mean to be contrarian for the sake of it, that would be stupid.
It does not mean ignoring countrywide living conditions similar to those in a Nazi Germany concentration camp for the inhabitants who behave and a Nazi Germany extinction camp for those who don't, that would be stupid.
It does not mean excusing a government simply because one can draw parallels and similarities to other governments, that would be stupid.
It does not mean that it is in any way acceptable to gamble with the lives of tens if not hundred of millions for the sake of moral relativism without any practical gain but bloodshed and/or worse.
It does not mean continuing to ignore the information available through kidnapped then freed South Koreans and Japanese as well as escaped North Koreans. Nor to ignore the material including covert recordings made by civilians amply illustrating what happens IN PUBLIC in North Korea (and to a lesser extent what happens to some North Koreans in China). Doing any of that would be extremely stupid.
The only people who shouldn't have problems with North Korea should be die-hard fascists in the political sense of the word, as opposed to using the word as a swearword (and using the word in a non-political sense would be... stupid).
Re:Care to qualify that ? (Score:3, Interesting)
Beyond rhetoric, what clear military action was done in the last 10 years by North Korea in which they destroyed any foreign military facility (or even civilian one) or even shoot down a rocket carrying a satellite ? I am sorry but I usually ignore both rhetoric (US/EU/North korea), Rhetoric is good for politic, but just at that, beyond that you have to look at the action.
You should be utterly ashamed of yourself for comments that so undermine one of the greatest violations of human rights the world has ever seen. "You have to look at the action", is that what you pretend to judge by? Then tell me what you really think about a country that uses a brutal secret police and propaganda campaign to enforce the indoctrination of the Great Leader as a Deity on it's population from birth until death? A country were those questioning that basic 'truth' end up executed or in concentration camps? Where even those that honestly believe in the Great Leader end up in forced labor camps, mal nourished and honestly believing they are LUCKY to be where they are protected from the evil Americans by Kim Jong Il, the God?
Honestly, North Korea is home to a people so horribly repressed and so indoctrinated they really do believe they live in one of the best places on the planet. It sickens me to see anyone outside that world snidely talking about how much more evil America is.