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Posted by: stevesliva Dec 21 2009, 07:17 PM

As the Enterprise superimposed in front of Titan has failed to amuse everyone, I present this version of a fictional spacecraft imposed onto the reality of physics and gravity that is sure to amuse everyone:

http://failblog.org/2009/12/21/model-rocket-fail/

See? Star ____ is hilarious.

Posted by: centsworth_II Dec 21 2009, 08:03 PM

This is what came to my mind during that episode. But I didn't dare post it in the Cassini thread!

Posted by: JohnVV Dec 21 2009, 10:19 PM

this was not superimposed but a 3d rendering
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=19955
[attachment=19955:Screenshot.png]

i was only going to post 1 ( one) and only one image that was "off topic" in the thread

Posted by: tedstryk Dec 22 2009, 12:38 AM

I love it!

Posted by: monty python Dec 22 2009, 06:30 AM

Now That was completely different!

Fantastic!

Posted by: imipak Dec 22 2009, 09:47 PM

Estes-powered scale models can work out pretty nicely sometimes, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FXx7WqIUHA

Posted by: nprev Dec 22 2009, 11:20 PM

Veering...?

WAY OT here, and sorry to have to ask, but other then the obvious "upgrade Flash" answer for YouTube...which I've done repeatedly, with no improvement ever noted...how in the hell do you fix the following error so that it dies, goes away, ceases to exist, and otherwise disappears from the spacetime continuum in any recognizable form??? it appears approximately 95% of the time that I try to view a video there:

Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.

I am indeed sorry to have to ask. This is an issue of profound frustration to me, since no reasonable action I've ever attempted (firewalls, reboots, upgrades, human sacrifice during a full Moon) has resolved the issue. I thank any potential redeemer profoundly in advance, and offer unlimited libations of choice upon decisive resolution and proximity to me!

Posted by: stevesliva Dec 23 2009, 12:33 AM

Saw that before... not sure it's Estes that makes the J's or whatever it is powering that thing. Makes me wish they could also scale down the awesomeness of several seconds of full-thrust engine power before liftoff. Put a few weights in it or something.

Posted by: JohnVV Dec 23 2009, 02:02 AM

in Firefox 3.5 do you have ad-block pulse and no-script installed ?
If so configure no-script to " allow " from youtube

If for some odd reasion you are still using "Internet Explorer" , then install Firefox 3.5

Posted by: imipak Dec 23 2009, 08:24 PM

Are you definitely on the current version of Flash? (10.0.42.34 at the time of writing).

Another tip if you're on Firefox: occasionally user profile data gets corrupted. Shut Firefox down, backup your profile directory (~/.mozilla/ on Linux, I think it's something like C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Firefox on Windows XP, not sure about later Windows or Mac) by changing it's name to something like firefox_old, then start it up again. You'll lose stuff like browser history and bookmarks, but you can re-import the latter from your backed up profile. If that doesn't help, nuke the newly created profile and rename the backed up version.

Posted by: stewjack Dec 24 2009, 04:32 AM

nprev,

This may provide a work around. However, you will need a flash player like VLC

http://www.eusing.com/free_youtube_download/youtube_download.htm


They have downloaders plus converters, but I have never used them.

http://www.eusing.com/free_youtube_downloader/youtube_converter.htm

ALSO

Sometimes old versions of flash remain on your system. Try googling for removal of old unused versions. I had two old versions remaining on my system from years ago. However, for me at least, I could still stream flash just fine. However, some people claimed that it fixed their flash problems.

Posted by: nprev Dec 24 2009, 05:35 AM

Guys, thanks for the responses; I'll try them! Fact of the matter is that I'm running XP with the dreaded IE on my vintage 2003 computer, and, yes, I'm buying a new computer + 'tude for the holidays...that SHOULD fix the issue.

What really blew my mind is that I've seen the same damn YouTube error message as part of the preview text on Google searches, so thought that maybe this was a ubiquitious bug that I (& other Web neolithics) somehow missed out on fixing back in the day. Your generous & thoughtful responses make me believe that is not the case, and upgrading is the real answer.

Damn, can I craft a Clovis point, though. Thanks again to all for your help!