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 Mar 28 2008, 01:58 AM
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It's UM and it's SF on the light side --
Origami from orbit It would be way cool if they can pull it off. |
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Mar 28 2008, 06:10 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
But IMHO it's carrying "faster, cheaper, better" to extreme lengths!
-------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Mar 28 2008, 04:22 PM
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It's a paper shuttle but coated in heat resistant material.................so a flying tile..........?
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Mar 28 2008, 04:35 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
It's an interesting experiment in material heat endurance, to say nothing of upper atmosphere dynamics...but, of course, there's an inherent 70% chance they'll land in the sea!
To do this right, they need to launch like 10,000 or more of these all at once. It would be fascinating to see the global distribution of landing sites for those few that might be recovered. And actually the recovery problem is not insignificant even if many of them hit land & are found. How many languages should the "return to sender" message be written in? (I know that the researchers would want them back.) How many would actually be sent back regardless? Kids might just want to play with them, and who could blame them? Hell, I'd be tempted to keep one out of its sheer coolness. Others would put them right on eBay, I'm afraid. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Mar 28 2008, 07:51 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
If you made, say, a thousand - stacked them up in some sort of release mechanism, parked it on the Kibo external platform and released them, at speed, downward - you could distribute along the ISS orbit, in such a way whereby one or two might make it down. Have each primary school make one to the fixed design and then send them all up. I love paper planes - infact I'd love to fold this design if I could find it, it looks fantastic.
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Mar 28 2008, 08:42 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Mar 28 2008, 08:35 AM)  How many languages should the "return to sender" message be written in? Just one: http://www.paperplanefromspace.com.... Then you put as many languages as you want on the web site which explains to the reader what it is they have found. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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