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Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @05:46AM from the if-you-got-the-money-honey dept.

HaveNoMouth writes "What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button? The incredible movies (with sound!) at Gates Bros. Rocketry tell the tale. The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community. They have a nice gallery of still photos too. If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."

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What happens (Score:5, Funny)

by jki ( 624756 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @05:53AM (#4714092) Homepage

What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button
Tens of thousands of USD is blown up in the air and converted into a couple of movies which can be shown on Slashdot so that we can make insightful comments like this?

if only... (Score:3, Funny)

by Animaether ( 411575 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @05:54AM (#4714095) Journal

if only they could strap a DVcam to the desk pointing at the blinkenlights on their server as the poor thing gets slashdotted to hell and back

What happens when... (Score:1, Funny)

by Russellkhan ( 570824 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @05:57AM (#4714099)

You put movies with sound up on your site and someone links to it on Slashdot? The server goes down hard!

Actually, I'm impressed - I'm downloading one of the mpegs right now and getting it at a pretty good speed.

Russ

Well... (Score:4, Funny)

by acehole ( 174372 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @05:58AM (#4714100) Homepage

I guess it'd be an improvement over strapping someone to a rocket then hoping they survived the landing so they could tell you about it.

Isn't that just the way... (Score:4, Funny)

by djupedal ( 584558 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:00AM (#4714103)

So I build this nice, trim little single stage rocket (solid fuel), and my brother talks me into strapping another zero delay motor onto the bottom....it went fine until the tagged on motor lit the main motor....the rocket tumbled just for an instant, and when the main motor fired, the rocket was horizontal...it quickly made it to a nearby freeway and took out an aged Mustang. We figured since lunch was almost over we'd just as soon head back to the lab and quietly call it a day. A camera on that one would have shown one ticked off Mustang owner, I'm sure.

Don't know if I have the nerve to sacrifice a DV camera...but maybe someone else's camera would be ok :)

What happens? (Score:5, Funny)

by JanusFury ( 452699 ) writes: <kevin...gadd@@@gmail...com> on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:05AM (#4714119) Homepage Journal

What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button?

It gets posted on the slashdot front page and somebody makes a joke about {Bill Gates/Microsoft/Windows/RIAA/MPAA, chooose one}? Oh, that and you scare some wildlife. You can't launch a 200 pound rocket without scaring the shit out of SOMETHING.

"by far the best I've seen" (Score:5, Funny)

by nakaduct ( 43954 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:06AM (#4714127)

The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community.

And yet, still vastly inferior to the output of the "strap a camera to a showerhead" community.

Amazing! (Score:3, Funny)

by joebp ( 528430 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:07AM (#4714129) Homepage

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in all my life! The way it goes up, gets put through such a lot of strain and still lives! And it's still flying! I wonder what hardware they're using.
Oh, the videos of the rockets are OK too.

*rimshot*

What happens? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:08AM (#4714137)

What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button?

You prove to NASA that it can be done cheaply? [slashdot.org] :)
-mo

Combine the best of both. (Score:2, Funny)

by JanusFury ( 452699 ) writes: <kevin...gadd@@@gmail...com> on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:10AM (#4714141) Homepage Journal

strap a camera to a flying toy and fly it into the showers at a local school
Get the best of both, people freaking out hilariously and lots of h4w7 n3kk1d gur1z 8-). You could even have it blow up afterward, but that would ruin the whole video thing.

Re:Time to put away childish things... (Score:5, Funny)

by Tailhook ( 98486 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:22AM (#4714164)

Wouldn't it be better and more rewarding to give the money to charity than to just blow up DV camcorders.

No.

Re:if only... (Score:5, Funny)

by The Original Yama ( 454111 ) writes: <lists.sridhar @ d h a n apalan.com> on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:27AM (#4714175) Homepage

Of course, you'd need a separate server & bandwidth for the camera feed, so that we can actually see the slashdotting. Then we need a camera (with its own server & bandwidth) to see the blinkenlights on the first camera's server so that we can see it being slashdotted. Then we need a third camera to see the blinkenlights on the second camera's server...

Re:Great movies... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:30AM (#4714183)

Yeah, I surprised! Those are the best damn dildo commercials I've ever seen!

Re:Cheap shots... again. (Score:5, Funny)

by herrd0kt0r ( 585718 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:38AM (#4714205)

Is it really really neccessary to have a cheap shot at MS no matter how little the post might be related?

yes.

Why don't we just have a default sig "Windoze sucks, Linux rulez."?

we do.

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Windoze sucks, Linux rulez.

Re:Great movies... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:46AM (#4714224)

If you don't live in the USA you are a terrorist. We will bomb you eventually.

Re:Combine the best of both. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:51AM (#4714232)

You want school girls to blow your rocket, are you a child molester?

I wish we could have taped this... (Score:5, Funny)

by Malorian ( 520615 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:58AM (#4714248)

A few years ago, a friend had a nasty split with his g/f not to long before Guy Fawkes night and she'd been foolish enough to leave her beloved 'Piglet' cuddly toy...
Piglet was firmly taped to a display firework rocket (one of those damn huge ones), head facing the sky before being fired into the sky. Can you say "Pigs in Spaaaaaaace!" ;)
I wish we could have had a Piglets eye view of it, we kept finding bits of piglet in nearby streets for days :)

Anyone Thinking of "FoxTrot" (Score:4, Funny)

by Ronin Jonin ( 582090 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @06:58AM (#4714251)

I'm sorry, but I'm thinking of those FoxTrot comics where Marcus and Jason attach the video camera to the rocket which upsets the balance and it flies straight at them. Something along those lines happaned to me once.

Re:I wish we could have taped this... (Score:2, Funny)

by Malorian ( 520615 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @07:06AM (#4714266)

Oh, in case someone tries something similar - don't! At least not anywhere populated!
That thing starting to come back down way too early - we started to get a bit worried as it started to curve back down, luckily it exploded just high enough so that only a few sparks bounced off our roof!
Shout's of 'Pigs in Space' soon turned to 'Shit, INCOMING!!' ;)

Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)

by MacAndrew ( 463832 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @07:10AM (#4714280) Homepage

They tried that. Notice they don't mention their "other" brother, Wayne, who would've been fine if he hadn't struggled so much on the way up.

Re:Great movies... (Score:2, Funny)

by pediddle ( 592795 ) writes: <pediddle+slashdot@NoSPam.pediddle.net> on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @07:49AM (#4714356) Homepage

The sad part is, that won't even be a joke once GWB gets his way...

I'd like to see a camera strapped on the side of one of the cruise missiles. Well, I guess they already have those. Never mind.

Re:Anybody get a mirror? slashdot should offer! (Score:4, Funny)

by tulare ( 244053 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @07:55AM (#4714366) Journal

Which, on a good enough story, would result in the world's first recursive slashdotting.

Re:Nah. This is what *really* happens... (Score:5, Funny)

by TheAlmightyQ ( 306969 ) writes: <mpearsonNO@SPAMqserv.org> on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @07:56AM (#4714368) Homepage

If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool.

If only everyone named Gates could create a web server that could take a slashdotting.

Re:Cheap shots... again. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @08:40AM (#4714453)

He's also got a room full of Japanese women tied up by his personal rope master, Masahiro. That sounds pretty cool me. I could only imagen though if a video of Billy Boy bouncing on it was posted to slashdot.

I know! I know! Oooh, pick me! *waving hand* (Score:3, Funny)

by CrystalFalcon ( 233559 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @08:41AM (#4714458) Homepage

What happens when the founder of Xircom and his brother bolt a DV Camcorder to the side of a 200 lb. model rocket and press the red button?

They have to get a new web hosting provider because the old one gets slashdotted, blames them for the outage, and kicks them out?

This is nothing new... (Score:2, Funny)

by CowardNeal ( 627678 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @08:56AM (#4714497)

I've been seeing these films on Roadrunner vs Coyote, though they look a little chalky.

Gates (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @09:29AM (#4714665)

<i>"If only everyone named Gates did stuff this cool."</i>

What? Windows for Warheads? :)

Re:What happens (Score:3, Funny)

by McFly69 ( 603543 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @10:22AM (#4714955) Homepage

The quality of these movies is by far the best I've seen from the "strap a camera to a flying toy" community. They have a nice gallery of still photos too.

I was totally impressed by the quality of the movies and photos! but for some reason they all look the same to me. The movie is on repeat and keeps playing "503 Service Unavailable
The requested URL Bandwidth is temporarily unavailable." Gets kind of boring after watching it for 30 minutes.

Re:Shock certified camcorders! (Score:4, Funny)

by Gruneun ( 261463 ) writes: on Wednesday November 20, 2002 @11:01AM (#4715206)

For one, JVC and Canon camcorder models mentioned in the site get shock certified at 0.6 Mach speed, with forces exceeding 1G. Wow!

The speed is impressive, but I certainly hope it could handle more than 1G. Otherwise, you couldn't pick it up off a table without breaking it.

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