"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
06/18/2015 at 08:51 • Filed to: spacelopnik, apollo 11, saturn V, NASA
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
06/18/2015 at 08:51 • Filed to: spacelopnik, apollo 11, saturn V, NASA | 1
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This has been posted in the past but I haven’t seen it in a while. It popped up in my YouTube feed and is worth another watch even if you’ve seen it before. The video in question is a feed from the launch pad of the Apollo 11 launch showing just how powerful and violent a rocket launch is.
spanfucker retire bitch
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
06/18/2015 at 08:57 |
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It won’t retain that title for much longer.
f86sabre
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/18/2015 at 09:03 |
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Hopefully not. Still a thing to behold though.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/18/2015 at 09:06 |
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I’m surprised that it hasn’t been surpassed already, I used the title because it’s awesome and appropriate and didn’t actually verify that it was the most powerful. IIRC some of the Apollo missions had slightly different power (energy) levels but I can’t find that right now.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> f86sabre
06/18/2015 at 09:06 |
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Why would you wish hopefully not? I want the SLS project to succeed.
ly2v8-Brian
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
06/18/2015 at 09:26 |
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The rocket that they will use for the Mars mission is going to be a beast.
Bluecold
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
06/18/2015 at 09:27 |
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Soviet N1 rocket was more powerful. Couldn’t bring as much to the moon because the specific impulse was a bit lower as it was a kerosene-oxygen mix instead of hydrogen-oxygen for higher stages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocke…
#Comparison_with_Saturn_V
It also sucked as it tended to explode. So the Saturn V is the most powerful rocket in the world (that was actually used for its intended goal)
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ly2v8-Brian
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
06/18/2015 at 09:27 |
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And to think, this is a scaled up V2 rocket.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Bluecold
06/18/2015 at 09:38 |
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The N1 never became operational. My quick read of the Wikipedia article shows that after four failed launch attempts the program was shelved. Judges rule that the N1 doesn’t get the title of most powerful rocket... IN THE WUURLD because it was never successfully launched.
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f86sabre
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/18/2015 at 10:33 |
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Sorry, used a negative. My previous post would have read better as, hopefully the Saturn doesn’t hold onto that title for ever. Either way, it is still a cool thing to watch.
I’m with you on SLS.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> Bluecold
06/18/2015 at 10:34 |
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I want to know who the drunk Russian was that thought it was a good idea for the N1 rocket system to have that many god damn fucking nozzles holy shit.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> ly2v8-Brian
06/18/2015 at 10:35 |
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von Braun knew his shit.
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Bluecold
> spanfucker retire bitch
06/18/2015 at 11:11 |
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To be honest, I quite like the idea of being able to compensate for an eventual failure and to make guidance possible using throttling instead of pointing a massive engine somewhere. But as with any idea, it is important to actually implement the ideas properly for it to work. The small engines were very powerful as well with a high specific impulse. Higher than that of the F1 engines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NK-33