As the wider cosmic community waits anxiously, their suction cup fingers hovering undecidedly over the reset button.
lol
Can you really extrapolate the physics and make corrections valid for larger scales using those materials (cardboard and such). Are there equations one would insert to compensate for how forces act differently on the different materials to predict for larger scales or does it not matter?
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Lambus (Short Spike)
The laws of physics are the same regardless of scale.
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skeptoid (Old Spike)
Yes, but is the structural reliability of the material identical in terms of applied forces? Is he ensuring the relationship of the carboard against wind resistence and load at that scale is equivalent to the relationship between metal and alloy and ceramic against those same forces at larger scales? Cardboard fails differently from steel vs. ceramic vs. plastic etc. That's what I mean, or am I out to lunch?
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(Old Spike)
As the wider cosmic community waits anxiously, their suction cup fingers hovering undecidedly over the reset button.
lol
Can you really extrapolate the physics and make corrections valid for larger scales using those materials (cardboard and such). Are there equations one would insert to compensate for how forces act differently on the different materials to predict for larger scales or does it not matter?
(Short Spike)
The laws of physics are the same regardless of scale.
(Old Spike)
Yes, but is the structural reliability of the material identical in terms of applied forces? Is he ensuring the relationship of the carboard against wind resistence and load at that scale is equivalent to the relationship between metal and alloy and ceramic against those same forces at larger scales? Cardboard fails differently from steel vs. ceramic vs. plastic etc. That's what I mean, or am I out to lunch?
(Short Spike)
His rocket will never work without a gyroscope.
(Dixie Normous: Image specialist)
Pretty sure there are gyros in that thing.