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DOUBLE REGEN COOLED 20kN AEROSPIKE ENGINE

I've been working on a really fun video that I shot with @DJSnM, @Integza__ and @JamesWhomsley when we were at Kennedy Space Center Visitors complex. It's over an hour of just 4 nerds nerding out about rockets in an incredible museum. I'll hopefully get it out tomorrow!

The difference between a bomb and a rocket is a well designed hole we call a nozzle. I'm really happy Grok doesn't censor every little thing that seems shady because every time I ask anything about rockets to ChatGPT it assumes l'm trying to make a bomb and tells me to go suck on a tomato. What's the point of having an artificial entity (you pay for!!!) to find and explain complex information if it only accepts "safe" questions???? Grok is great, it helps me find the right size hole without asking questions or judging me.

@TheBrianMcManus I just had a flashback

@joebarnard That’s how they got the idea to spin things to orbit I’m sure

Let he who was not left the chuck key in the lathe cast the first stone

For a 2-stage spaceshot, high altitude ignition of the second stage is tricky to get right. My approach here is to dump a ton of heat into the prop as quickly as possible - this shot from Super 8 was 1000fps, played back at about 2.4% speed. The command-to-steady state time is about 0.25 sec

Open Sauce 2025! What a phenomenal event - I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s like an enormous adult science fair for nerds and then sometimes there are astronauts

Thank you for everyone that came out to see our rocket engineering panel at @OpenSauceLive

@stlDenise3D @OpenSauceLive @tachophobicat There’s still good inventors left in this world !

@Integza__ Yep.🍅 @OpenSauceLive @tachophobicat

I'm looking through the exhibitor's list for Open Sauce, making note of the people I really, really need to see. If I can get @Integza__ checking out the "robot that shoots tomatoes when you tell a bad joke" my weekend will be perfect.

ChatGPT always tells me my questions are deep and interesting, I think Im being bamboozled

@LordTankArt @StarrtoonArt I subscribe to this

decided to turn @StarrtoonArt into a tomato, cuz she hates tomatoes

I rest my case youtube.com/shorts/H1uRNt6… via @YouTube

As the best CAD modeller in the universe I have to agree. Extrude those profiles, Loft those sketches, Sweep through those paths, Revolve around those axis, Mirror when you can, Pattern when you should and most important of all, ALWAYS FILLET THE EDGES! Tomatoes are disgusting!

yeah i’m tripling down on this buying a 3d printer and refusing to learn cad is like buying a cnc mill and expecting it to be useful to you without knowing CAM a 3D printer is not an appliance you bought a fabrication tool, and if you’re only using it to download and hit print, you are a bot. the “you don’t need to code to own a computer” take is lazy no one’s saying you need to be programmer to browse reddit but if your whole point of having the thing relies on writing code and you refuse to touch it, then you’re just cosplaying as someone who builds things i said what i said LEARN FUSION 360 IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Kevin Bacon looks too cool for his age, it’s unnatural

@joebarnard I that challenge ?

Next person to post a video with the caption "physics" is getting jail time

Centrifugal force is a filthy lie perpetuated by the MAN ! Keep it inertial my friends.

@Erdayastronaut Gotta love the cooling cooly tuby tubes

Got to see an incredible rocket engine today.. you get 13 nerd brownie points if you can name what engine it is based on the nozzle alone…

@AstraNeo_ Hydrazine is so insanely toxic that when a transporting ship has a leak, they just abandon the entire ship Pretty awesome propellant though

mmmm hydrazine