We Have Ignition! NASA Tests a New Rocket

[ReeceAndersonable]

Sound AWESOME!

[Jant00]

The sounds sound like later added to the video, not from the camera.

[SStarwind]

That's intense

[neiggu]

At first i was like "who farted", but then KAPUUUSCH!!!! HOHO!! :D

[oomblikkies]

Still looks like a chemical rocket to me. That is not the way forward. Ion propulsion has not the raw boosting power, but what about a sort of a maglev approach where a spacecraft it accelerated and then sling into space with its full compliment of chemical propulsion and/or ion drive still available.

[Tyrannobeast]

@oomblikkies A maglev wouldn't work with humans, because unless you want a huge rail the acceleration would be so massive that the crew would be dead before they knew they'd launched. You also need to already have the infrastructure in place.

Chemical rockets will probably be the only way for people to leave the surface of a massive celestial body for a very long time, nothing else approaches the balance of power and delicacy at the present time.

[IceZer0X2]

why explore space when the bible have every answer? lol, jk. fuck religion, go science!

[TheGameHive]

ION + SPACE = MARS MISSION LOLZ

[briansrh]

thats chuck norris's ciggerate lighter haha!!!

[atheisttotindekist]

This sounds awesome on good headphones. Amazing low frequencies!

[EtaCarinaez]

STAND THE FUCK BACK, THESE GUYS ARE DOING SCIENCE!

[necedm]

Chuck Norris' seat-warmer

[Darkreval]

Anyone has a siggaret?

[KamakaZex313]

awsome match diamonds

[LodovicoTechnique]

Rockets... well, rock.

[giggletronics]

The human mind is awesome.

[antfaney]

still love that vid,see the load go on the carage

[threadysparrow]

i am guessing that this would be the best way to take out zombies?

[pacevedo9]

@threadysparrow haha that's how resident evil will resolve

[MSNBCFAN]

You are on top..... the bitch is always on top!!!!

[MSNBCFAN]

Fuck you!!!!!!

[Xzandon]

liquid Methane, no good fuel

[raykiller545]

wowa wiwa

[Xenomous]

thet would chew thro gas like nuthing

[Iris421989]

OMG DID HE DIE?

[wmoore998]

there is no rocket engine capable of that much thrust. The Saturn V had 7.6 million pounds of thrust and that was accomplished with five engines. The flame produced was longer than the Statue of Liberty. The engine in this video is a bottle rocket in comparison.

[FelixA9]

NASA tested a solid motor that produced almost that much all by itself. Check out Mark Wade's site for "260 inch booster".

[wmoore998]

the person who removed the comments said that the rocket in this video produced 30million lbs of thrust.. That is what I was responding to.

[jimmysaint13]

fuuuuuuuuuuuck

[george07639]

its shopped i can tell by the pixels

[wmoore998]

Those are quantization errors caused by video compression. It is not shopped.

[lithiumdeuteride]

The entire image is pixels, you moron. Pixel = "picture element", and it is the way digital video is discretized.

[tealrainne]

I think he/she was joking =P

[Zantaer]

That's really cool.

[retepvosnul]

What a pretty device. The jet is real nice .

[PaleAlejandro]

sweet

[Freeworld4575]

nvm they are both the same thing

[Freeworld4575]

Those figure eights are called shock diamonds.

[Hughdapu]

wooo kablaam!

[tookan]

holy shit!

[johnlujl123]

So with this technology Saturn's moon, Titan, will be our great fuel source!

[haerverk]

What woulden't I do for one of these

[tnort222]

thats what she said...

[xbelafontex]

Awesome

[jason74ftchip]

likes of METHAIN !

[watsburning]

it's the spelling is methane but i believe it's a methane hydrogen fuel cell mix.

[MARK0352]

AWESOME POWER & Lots of thrust "SUCH BEAUTY OF TECHNOLIGY"

[bubblinbrownsugar616]

Well......it works! :)

[AlycDanger]

Thats what she said. HUH? AM I RIGHT FOLKS?

[spiderscales76]

lithium ion of the rocket age!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Juice34tr]

wow

[theplaneshift]

that is ridiculously cool

[manonthemoon516]

Pretty!

[brstAIM120]

it's pretty, but aren't mach diamonds the sign of an inefficient motor?

[kisdia]

well yes and no. you are right that they show an ineficient engine however these rocket motors are optimised for high altitude operation and not ground level. (same with Space Shuttle and Blackbird) Dont worry this beast will be off the ground soon enough and than those pretty diamonds will disappear.

[Delenko]

The new jenn-air 30 mega btu cooker. Block of ice to roast turkey in 1 second!

[sportstalents]

Could it be used to let the earth spin faster? There would be more days in a year and all the economy would get a boost.

:-D

[horderaw]

fast enough, earth will become something without u ,dear

[EpiDemic117]

@sportstalents hahahah! Troll physics? Problem Wallstreet? 

[Utsusemi]

lmao it sounds like some thing fromt he movies at the first part of the video right when u see the flame

[GreenGestalt]

BTW-On earth, Methane can be made from anything organic. Remember "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome"? Cook pig sh-t, newspapers, weeds... Extract the gas, put the ash right back into the ground. Methane will directly run a gasoline car, especially an older 'rustbucket' without fancy chips. And ZERO "Carbon Footprint" since it's just circulating the Carbon cycle.

[hunter3nake]

rofl... the monkeys.

[vitorcui]

yay global warming

[yank31]

rofl

[monkistyle]

its a butane rocket

[tbonemonkey]

Can you read? It clearly says Methane in the description.

[Navimaster]

holy crap

[BrutalDeluxe80]

you need oxigen to burn methane. other fuels don't.

[amnip]

that's a lot of power.

[Navimaster]

holy shit

[Ramonesrrad]

holly fuck

[911KurT777]

I could watch this all day long. That sound is amazing!

[vitorcui]

you need to go out there and do something more interesting than watching this fucking thing.

[toodoo213]

awsome!

[zloben9000]

our society develops only cheap technologies that are improvements of even cheaper and older technologies...

where is the 50 billion anti-gravity engine ?

[xXxmidgexXx]

It farted

[toodoo213]

hahahaha wow

[taufiq1991]

earth is in crucial state

[heavysniper101]

how many pounds of thrust does it put out?

[YourSuperiorSays]

mach disks ftw!

[showtimeproductions]

i want one on my skateboard...

yeaaaaaaa.

haha, i love the

shock diamonds.

id love to see this kind of rocket

in the sky.

[jmc8197]

beautiful flame pattern

[rodybolands]

Great sound

[Thejournalist2007]

lol the taxman is alot cooler when he is lighting candles like that!

Ahhhhhh the power, great vid great sound!

[penndejadas]

imagen if i put that on mi 2007 ferrari

thats hot!!

[marneydog]

imagine you have a 2007 ferrari to put it on.

[tehblunderbuss]

or a 67 Impala ;)

[viper110110]

i want one of these for my backyard :P

AWESOME

[ponnu1984]

thats really cool!

[antfaney]

g0tta love it.

[000darkstar000]

COOL VID M8 those gases r way super sonic nice burn WAY2 GO NASA MORE PLSE JJ

[Mojomatrix]

Dang...This is why I like paying taxes

[wiiwouldliketoplaymi]

You Like Paying taxes?

[microziya65]

yaaa işte böyle bizde hala sibel can larla hülya avşarlarla abuk sabuk yerli dizilerle avunalım..aziz nesin ne kadar haklıymış dimi

[menu12345]

wow that is what i call power

[locust76]

Ok I see a rocket test video and you fucking douchebags are talking about Holland and healthcare? What in the holy fuck?

Anyways, I like how it ends all quiet :P

[yarzu]

A lot of good that health care will do us when aliens invade or theres a zombie outbreak. What will help us? Things that go boom...GOD.

[theredrooter]

sounds like a nuckle head talk. when the hell did "aliens" invade us? 1st of all are there aliens? or just some nice made up stories dude? so you would trade your health on some bed stories made up by a bunch of quick fortune makers...sounds...just about right...not

[craybee06]

wow, that's hella cool. specially when you crank up the speakers cause at the end the rocket made a noise that sounded like the aliens in War of the Worlds

[santeron]

i wish i was behind that tube to see that fire coming... lol...

[ForSaken604]

lol your head will just burn right off

[13psycho07]

That was so awesome. Wish I could see that in person. =]

[bikeride30]

fake

[kennethj1956]

I hope this is real instead of the "lunar landing hoax" NASA has been trying to foist off on the public for years. Sheesh, I dont even know who still believes that garbage of man landing on the moon. We all know the money was spent on Johnson's great society debacle and the Vietnam war.

[IvonoftheGWF]

My grandfather was involved in the design of the Robotic arm of the Lunar Lander. I once beileved your stupid theroy, then I talked to him about it. He put it in a way that it made sense. It was real.

[RockMeToDeath]

Reminds me of the road runner's rockets how they'll always fizzle with a poot of smoke at the end. It was an awesome test though! We need to give NASA more fundz!!

[mcromance1]

More funds that come from Americans tax payments for retarded rockets? Fuck that. Concentrate on our Health Care issue, then we can think about moving on to rockets. Maybe.

[FreePlay]

Concentrate on not spamming, you idiotic cunt.

[mcromance1]

So, you'd rather put your tax money torwards stupid rockets that cost Americans billions instead of putting it to something important like FREE Health Care like countries in Europe are getting. Shut up, you're the "imbecile" friend.

[FreePlay]

"Free Health Care" is paid for by massive taxes, you ignorant douche.

[mcromance1]

do some research on holland with their free healthcare, you ignorant douche.

[RockMeToDeath]

Free healthcare shmealthcare. It wouldn't work in this country, just like it doesn't work in Canada. Get a grip and go beg your insurance company for free healthcare...

[mcdanyel]

WOW!

[Najmods]

Great Scott!! Those are awesome! If a methane rocket looks like that, God knows what fission-fragment rocket will spit out...

[terk0iz]

it a methan rocket

[mase217]

what kinda rocket was that?!! someone please answer me

[tehsimo]

read the damn description on the right "About This Video", hit "more info"

[SiliconBong]

... and this is the real reason why chilli beans are not permitted on the space shuttle, which makes you wonder why the tiles on the bottom of the shuttles are always blowing off ...

[ecljpse]

That rocket burns off liquidized fart! "compressed liquid methane" How is that odorless?

[ApolloWasReal]

Methane is indeed odorless. Natural gas is "odorized" for safety; several organic mercaptans/thiols (two names for sulfur compounds with a very strong smell) are added in tiny amounts. This started after a huge NG explosion in a school in New London TX in 1937.

[05chaked]

tell that to my farts.

[ApolloWasReal]

Your farts contain more than methane.

[05chaked]

WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT MY FARTS?

LOLWUT ALL YOUR BASE BELONG TO US.

你笨蛋

Lol, it was a joke chilll

[boy44412]

Ok, here is what i think. When you burn anything, it oxidizes. That means it gets joined with oxygen some way. So when you burn gasoline, you get carbon-dioxide from the carbon in it, and other pollutants from the other crap in it.

The shuttle burns pure hydrogen. This can only create H2O. Thus the pollution from a launch is the same as what comes out of your tea kettle.

This stuff _is_ a pollutant. And while its really cool looking and all, it still seems to me like a step backwards.

[sowen010599]

I think that if you knew what was in the solid boosters, you would have a different opinion.

[boy44412]

you are right. i totaly didnt think of the solid boosters. :)

[cablio]

Ok. Read some books before you speak. Methane is CH4

Want to see how it burns?

CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O

[boy44412]

ok, clearly you know more about this than i do. still this does give off carbon dioxide, while a pure hydrogen motor wont.

[DrBrazil1]

Pg 2)Witch only needs to be extracted from existing NG lines and compressed in a tank. Hydrogen is are hard to collect, tricky to store and very expensive. Methane, however, need not be stored at -253 degree Celsius temperatures as hydrogen must be. Methane is also denser than hydrogen, making more out of limited space in fuel containers. Methane is the future.

[sowen010599]

And CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

[DrBrazil1]

You have to take into account of GHG emited by the production of hydrogen. The production of the hydrogen is made by steam reformation of hydrocarbons. 94% of all hydrogen in the U.S. is made this way. First, you have to steam-refom the natural gas, compress it, refrigerate it for long periods of time, transport it, and so on. The energy required to do all this far exceeds GHG emissions of a methane rocket.

[munky0527]

pretty dope

[vidalfelip]

la maquina tira kamehamehas

[89Sunbird]

At first Im thinkin "thats not as cool as you'd think" then the actual motor kicks in and the sound goes away for half a second...I lol'ed...

[dagrak]

That was beautiful

[zerocool101]

AwEsOmE :)

[65LB]

KEWL! ! !

[altaski]

was that real?

[photekxl]

Sounds so fucking awesome

[b0000b]

Nice cigarette lighter.

[freeman444]

;ddd

[economistBR]

NASA fucking rules!!!!!!!!!!

[mooreti1]

Man...that is absolutely bitchin'. Go NASA.

[dorrodal]

Or rather: Go XCOR!

[aplumb]

Man! Who needs special fx when you've got something like that!

[BigBossMonkeytE]

Nice little roar on it, made my desk shake!

[tbonemonkey]

Wow. That is one badass sounding rocket engine!

[LussoMagazine]

God bless Wired mag... and the fuel is exiting the engine at over 5,000 mph! Christ

[inuswo]

That thing looks and sounds fcking amazing...

[elementc]

Damn, I've even got the first view on youtube? Anyway, this is one of the nicer rocket test videos out I've seen.