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if I want to hear and FEEL the raw power that used to accompany Space Shuttle launches... how do I go about it?

find some random Airforce satellite launch? Some other public nasa launch? what?

>> No.5575201

>>5575176
4.4 million pounds
>http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/shuttleweight.shtml
3g acceleration=29.6m/s/s

4.4 m pounds = 2m kg

F=ma

F=~60meganewtons

/9.8 = 6 million kg

cow=600kg.

lie under a pile of 100000 cows to experience the force of a liftoff.

>> No.5575209

>>5575201
thanks d00d, omw to the farm now

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5576258

>>5575209
this guy

building rockets would be more fun, do that instead