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This is about a literal dream I had while sleeping last night, between getting involved in social media controversy (yeah, I know I shouldn't) and working on various hobbies late into the night (mostly legos and some video games) my brain decided to lay down some fresh insanity mixed with rocketry. As with all dreams only the weirdest stuff sticks with you in bits and pieces but I will try to retell it...
Me and some highschool friends, but at our current age of 27, were in some non-descript shop/science lab working on a team science project. You probably know the place I'm talking about, a semi-separate place from the rest of the school, big 4x8 tables that feel like they belong to stonehenge. Anyway the project was a rocketplane that looked suspiciously like the one I built this summer (way to plagiarize real life, brain) and we were trying to figure out the best size launch lugs and rod to use. So far a normal enough dream.
We can't decide between the usual suspects of 1/8, 3/16, or 1/4 for a launch rod so of course we ask the teacher. He told us that we were looking at the problem entirely wrong told us that those we all too big. The right choice was not the typical rods or to upsize to rail but instead use MUSIC WIRE. At this point in the dream I was getting really confused, not because I knew better (dream me knew little of rockets, apparently) but because the dude was super convincing. My friends start doing what he's saying because they don't know any better. (none of them are into rocketry anyway so this part made sense I guess) Next he instructs us that for the straightest launch we need to cut the wire just a little longer than the rocket and GLUE it inside the lugs and position it so it over hangs the engine a bit. It doesn't matter if the lugs are too big, he says, just glue it. He then says when we are ready to launch we just stick the end of the music wire in the little hole on an Estes pad. I must have given him a wierd look at this point because he tries to assure me that even though the fit would seem really loose the flight will be perfect. Oh and blast shields just get in the way
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I've had weirder dreams, I've had more surreal dreams. This one was just really down to earth in its stupidity.
Me and some highschool friends, but at our current age of 27, were in some non-descript shop/science lab working on a team science project. You probably know the place I'm talking about, a semi-separate place from the rest of the school, big 4x8 tables that feel like they belong to stonehenge. Anyway the project was a rocketplane that looked suspiciously like the one I built this summer (way to plagiarize real life, brain) and we were trying to figure out the best size launch lugs and rod to use. So far a normal enough dream.
We can't decide between the usual suspects of 1/8, 3/16, or 1/4 for a launch rod so of course we ask the teacher. He told us that we were looking at the problem entirely wrong told us that those we all too big. The right choice was not the typical rods or to upsize to rail but instead use MUSIC WIRE. At this point in the dream I was getting really confused, not because I knew better (dream me knew little of rockets, apparently) but because the dude was super convincing. My friends start doing what he's saying because they don't know any better. (none of them are into rocketry anyway so this part made sense I guess) Next he instructs us that for the straightest launch we need to cut the wire just a little longer than the rocket and GLUE it inside the lugs and position it so it over hangs the engine a bit. It doesn't matter if the lugs are too big, he says, just glue it. He then says when we are ready to launch we just stick the end of the music wire in the little hole on an Estes pad. I must have given him a wierd look at this point because he tries to assure me that even though the fit would seem really loose the flight will be perfect. Oh and blast shields just get in the way
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I've had weirder dreams, I've had more surreal dreams. This one was just really down to earth in its stupidity.