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A week ago I launched this lego rocket housing Benny from the lego movie and afterward started talking with my dad about scale.
This rocket is impossible to sim in OR but by my estimate flew to ~250ft and over our conversation I mentioned something to the effect of "how high would I have gone if I had been Benny?"
The scale turns out to be pretty close to 1:42, and in human terms Benny went just about 2 miles high. I think this is neat but hardly spacefaring. Taking this same scale I would have to send him up to about 6 miles to get him to a scale distance 'lego ISS'.
Quick other example, the Dr Zooch space shuttle is about 1:200 scale and to hit an 'ant scale ISS' would need to go about 1.25 miles. That's high but maybe the limit of achievable with some extreme mods.
I'm curious, has anyone done something like sending a scale model to a scale distance? Or even a scale payload (lego, army man, toy mercury capsule) and a different rocket?
This rocket is impossible to sim in OR but by my estimate flew to ~250ft and over our conversation I mentioned something to the effect of "how high would I have gone if I had been Benny?"
The scale turns out to be pretty close to 1:42, and in human terms Benny went just about 2 miles high. I think this is neat but hardly spacefaring. Taking this same scale I would have to send him up to about 6 miles to get him to a scale distance 'lego ISS'.
Quick other example, the Dr Zooch space shuttle is about 1:200 scale and to hit an 'ant scale ISS' would need to go about 1.25 miles. That's high but maybe the limit of achievable with some extreme mods.
I'm curious, has anyone done something like sending a scale model to a scale distance? Or even a scale payload (lego, army man, toy mercury capsule) and a different rocket?