NASA developed a camera capable of taking photos of white hot engine blasts.

Aug 9, 2016 2:44 PM

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Edit: not photos. video https://youtu.be/nPfcwT4Fcy8

I see stars

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cool. Can you crank it up to 11?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How: Two ways, a neutral density filter (sunglasses for camera) on the frame where blast is. Second way, two exposures composited together.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That shit is hot, hot, hot!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's HDR... but with SCIENCE

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Great. I can start lighting farts again, and this time it's for Science.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Finally, a camera that record the music video of my mix tape...

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

IMGUR Youtube links are garbage. I have to copy paste into a new tab or else it just errors.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

call me when it's a snapchat filter

9 years ago | Likes 188 Dislikes 2

Not ALL awesome technology comes from war. Now if only we could secure NASA with more FUNDING.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I got a white hot blast for ya. It's jizz.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Someone please photoshop Goku and/or Vegeta into these.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What's its mileage ?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

one highway, zero city

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dude, they've had those since the 1960s. Check out the footage from the launch pad of the Apollo launches.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

curious if anyone has studied if the earth's rotation speed up/slows down when they test rockets sideways like this. Fucking thrusters

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Angular momentum is conserved and mass is a part of momentum so we can conclude the impact is negligible by comparing the Earth and rocket.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thanks science man

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nice!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's like porn, but much hotter!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I guess you could say **puts on sunglasses** this camera can take the heat. YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

Azula and zuko

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We gonna get some cool pictures of the sun soon

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A friend of mine worked on processing this footage :D

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Cool

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

so now we can track you yay!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Cool!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Why does the nozzle moves front and back? (I'm on mobile, when I fast forwarded it with my finger I saw the nozzle move forward and back)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Steers and keeps the rocket go straight.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Probably just thrust vectoring.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is how you steer a rocket.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sadly no sound.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I assume it probably sounds a bit like SSSHHHWWROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

:D

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's not like it's brain surgery!

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

HA! I love that clip.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We must let others know: hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

NASA makes some really cool things when they screw up making rockets. (See: silly putty and slinkys)

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

... these were invented by NASA?!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

POINT IT AT THE SUN!

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

If you point it at the sun you'll miss. You need to aim backwards of the earth orbit and then a slightly push to the sun.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Or he meant to point at the sun to push earth away from the sun to cold the planet a little...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think he meant the camera...

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Well now you can see I missed the point

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I upvoted every comment in this thread.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've seen he video. You should have INCLUDED an animated gif in this album because that shit is intense http://imgur.com/I93jZQ9

9 years ago | Likes 701 Dislikes 4

Thanks geek

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

you're welcome kitty

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

plasma

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

shit's fire fam

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Me after i eat some bad guacamole

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

looks off, all that pressure and fuel burning but the "clouds" are moving that slow. kinda weird

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Still won't heat my hotpocket all the way through.

9 years ago | Likes 130 Dislikes 0

Truth

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

No matter how hot an oven is, it still needs time for heat to propagate through the food. Try setting to 50% power for twice as long.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I cook my hot pockets in my toaster oven. In fact, it's almost done cooking right now. Mmm...crunchy.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But it takes like three days to cook in a toaster oven though. You just put it in in Sunday, didn't you

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nope, 28 minutes exactly.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Something about OP's mom's butthole.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My butt hole after taco bell

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

me after taco bell

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

So you're telling me that the Titan A.E rocket blast animations were right.....i knew it.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It looks like a movir

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It looks like a movie

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I actually gaped at my phone for a few seconds

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you can watch this without making some sort of pchhoo noise you're a goddamn liar.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That shit IS intense!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's fucking amazing, it's like the special effects out of a sci Fi movie.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Coolest thing i'v ever seen.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Shit, that looks like some cinema CGI shit

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

:D

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Heard Tool when I pressed it. Was awesome. Link for reference

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's a Kamehameha.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It doesn't even look real.

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

don't let flat earthers get wrong ideas.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, noone's seen it before now.. soo...

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Don't leave me hanging like that

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

whaaat?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

video to gif wasn't working for me when I posted.

9 years ago | Likes 48 Dislikes 0

Well... ok then. ;-) If this post doesn't make the FP, then you might try reposting it as an album once it's working.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

"once it's working"? dude, I'll just steal the one you made =P

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

I wish Imgur allowed you to just "upload a vgif/mp3" but it doesn't. Why? I don't know. Abuse maybe? I see you made the FP! Congrats!

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

yeah, thanks. Had a bad day, so this was nice. Gratz on top comment. Good think I didn't repost with the gif, eh?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I CAN HEAR IT

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

@reters

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Que?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No wey pues como andabas grifo la otra vez, pensee que te caería bien este pinche video haha

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

jajaja!!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

REAL scientists out there: If I put wheels on the bottom, and a chair on top, how fast would I be traveling assuming I'm going horizontally?

9 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 1

About tree fiddy

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's going to be at least hella

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'd reach plaid.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

PDQ

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No matter what you were trying to escape from, that rocket would give you escape velocity.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You would be traveling at the speed of death.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

30

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As close to the speed of death as humanly possible.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

FAKE scientist here: I do this in Kerbal when I get bored.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

You wouldn't be going horizontally for very long. The earth old fall away from you and you'd catapult out-of the atmosphere

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's trippy.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah, orbital velocity on Earth's surface is something like 17,000 mph. But that booster makes 3.6M lbs thrust & starts out weighing 1.6M lbs

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hard to calculate, 3.6 million pounds of thrust, weighs 1.6 million pounds, but gets lighter as it burns. The burn lasts for two minutes.

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 1

Ballpark it for me. 1000mph? 500mph?

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fastest manned rocket sled is about 632mph, unmanned is about 6460 mph... So maybe between 500-6500 mph? (Note: only googled record speeds)

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Record land speeds

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Imperial eludes me but: 4,800m/s? Horizontally, 16Mn/0.4Mkg*120s I assume the rocket weighs 55% on average

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

You can input the conversion into google. 10737.29 MPH if 4800 m/s is correct

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Real scientist here. You'd be accelerating; your velocity would not be constant. (Space shuttles reach velocities over 4000m/s iirc!) Also

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

we need to know your mass, the mass of the rocket (empty), the mass of the fuel, and fuel consumption over time.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You must not be an engineer. Dude's mass is irrelevant.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Not knowing the average imgurian's mom's mass eyy

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You'd experience enough g forces within the first few seconds to kill you, so it wouldn't matter lol

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

But those first few seconds would be fun AF though

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually, figures mentioned thus far are terminal velocity, not acceleration rate, so likelihood of death depends upon rate of acceleration.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's like skydiving without a parachute. You're gonna die, but at least enjoy the ride.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This would likely cause an almost instant blackout, wouldn't be much fun.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ah, in that case...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At least 12 speed

9 years ago | Likes 78 Dislikes 3

12 speed? Make that 200 speed.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

maybe even over 9000 ...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I figured that much.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You're welcome

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Then why did you ask?

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'm an engineer, so I'd say, ballpark estimate, REALLY fast, but not for long.

9 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 0

So your saying I fuck like a rocket.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

*you're

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

One continuous thrust for a minute or so and then falling off the main vehicle?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Main vehicle. I'm going to call the wife that. Wish me luck.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Precisely.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0