Welcome!

[Peartree]

As you might have guessed in a "Beginner" forum, this is where you are invited to ask all of your questions when you are just beginning in rocketry or even restarting a hobby that you had "long, long ago in a land far, far away."

Ask away, there are lots of people around here who will be happy to lend you a hand and pass along the knowledge they have gained with years of practice and (sometimes hard) experience.

No one will make fun of you or attack you for being new and honestly, this is the place where there ARE no stupid questions.

Give us your best shot...

 

[AKPilot]

What's a rocket?

 

[Mikus]

What is the airspeed of an un-laden swallow?

 

[RangerStl]

What is the airspeed of an un-laden swallow?

"What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"

Mikus started it!!!

 

[Gillard]

"What do you mean? An African or European swallow?"

Mikus started it!!!

both fly at about the same speed - average of 45 mph.

i love the holy grail.

 

[Peartree]

African, uh, European, uh, I don't know, AAAAAAaaaaaaah!

 

[blackjack2564]

Does this mean a Barn Swallow flies at the same speed as a barn?

 

[BsSmith]

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if the wood chuck is Chuck Norris?

What does beginner mean?

How do I post a reply?

If your traveling at 50% the speed of light to Alpha Centauri from the sun, how many years does it take to get there?

 

[Peartree]

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if the wood chuck is Chuck Norris?

If the wood Chuck is Chuck Norris, all of it.

What does beginner mean?

One who begins at the beginning.

How do I post a reply?

Click "Post Reply."

If your traveling at 50% the speed of light to Alpha Centauri from the sun, how many years does it take to get there?

If you're in the sun, you're dead already so it doesn't matter anyway.

 

[bob jablonski]

Why is up called up?
Mr. Bob

 

[bob jablonski]

If the wood Chuck is Chuck Norris, all of it.



One who begins at the beginning.



Click "Post Reply."



If you're in the sun, you're dead already so it doesn't matter anyway.

Go at night!!!
Mr. Bob

 

[Sinister Mr. S]

I guess Im a new enough guy, jumped on about 2 months before the site crashed, happy to see its back up again, a really great buncha people w/TONS of info and a good sense of humor to boot(read above)!!

 

[BsSmith]

If you're in the sun, you're dead already so it doesn't matter anyway.

Let's start in LEO then, on the side towards Alpha Centauri.

 

[new2hpr]

But, what if you're driving in your car backwards at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights. Can you see them?

Ken

 

[Pippen]

And here we have yet more proof that this is the Silly Season of Model Rocketry, when we await the warm weather as well as the next generation...who wisely aren't venturing out in the ice and wind.

 

[johnnwwa]

But, what if you're driving in your car backwards at the speed of light and you turn on your headlights. Can you see them?

Ken

Steven Wright
"Let me ask you a question. If you were driving in your car at the speed of light and you turned your lights on would they do anything? "

BAR
John

 

[BsSmith]

It is said that achieving the speed of light is impossible, so what if your in a space ship going 1 ft/sec slower than the speed of light and you shoot a gun out the front of the space ship? (The spaceship isn't going backwards either)

Time slows down as you approach the speed of light, so does that mean time reverses when you go negative miles an hour?

Why do clocks tick clockwise?

If nothing sticks to Teflon, then how do they get it to stick to the pan?

What is the black dot in the middle of bird poop?