Alcohol doesn't conduct electricity, but if you have even the smallest leak of fumes, it's so volatile that it wouldn't take more than a tiny spark from any short in the wring to set it off and you wouldn't likely see it burning until it set something else on fire. It takes a good bit of energy to set off those motors and it's hard to do without conducting a hot spark directly to them, so I doubt that's what did it. I'd be interested to see if you guys could make your own larger solid fuel engines and what potential they have to deliver a damaging payload but faster and with more force than the alcohol version. Maybe something sugar-based or an HTPB mix. Make rocket darts or ones tipped with Armstrong's mixture, maybe? Tipping one with spark plug insulator ceramic and see if it would punch through a window? Rocket knives? The potential with what you can do with rockets is pretty much endless.
The boys are back in town.
Woot! Kerbal Space Program references!
I really dig these episode postmortems, especially when it's talking about what could have caused failures on the episode.
Alcohol doesn't conduct electricity, but if you have even the smallest leak of fumes, it's so volatile that it wouldn't take more than a tiny spark from any short in the wring to set it off and you wouldn't likely see it burning until it set something else on fire. It takes a good bit of energy to set off those motors and it's hard to do without conducting a hot spark directly to them, so I doubt that's what did it. I'd be interested to see if you guys could make your own larger solid fuel engines and what potential they have to deliver a damaging payload but faster and with more force than the alcohol version. Maybe something sugar-based or an HTPB mix. Make rocket darts or ones tipped with Armstrong's mixture, maybe? Tipping one with spark plug insulator ceramic and see if it would punch through a window? Rocket knives? The potential with what you can do with rockets is pretty much endless.
Man, Brian is really starting to look old. Scary part is he isn't terribly older than me.
I'm never this early, I don't know what to do.
banana
I'm never this early, I don't know what to do.
I'm never this early, I don't know what to do.