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Anonymous Tue Jul 12 02:57:41 2011 No.3377658 [Reply] [Original]

If you threw a paper plane from the International space station towards earth, would it survive reentry?

I also just realized how much fun paper planes and nerf guns would be in zero gravity

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:01:41 2011 No.3377679 How does orbiting work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:03:41 2011 No.3377687 In the general sense no.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:08:41 2011 No.3377708 File: 43 KB, 258x281, OrbitingCannonBalls.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377679 Things that are orbiting are actually falling down around the entire planet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:21:41 2011 No.3377773 I think the Japanese have already tried to do this (not from the ISS, though, I think), and if I remember correctly it worked; the airplanes were folded in such a way that they didn't burn up when re-entering the atmosphere..

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:23:41 2011 No.3377784 >>3377773 Then they didnt use paper so it wasn't a PAPER air plane

>>	not OP Tue Jul 12 03:27:41 2011 No.3377800 >>3377784 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-509739/Paper-aeroplane-dropped-240-miles-Internationa l-Space-Station-Earth.html Wikipedia is a bit vague on whether they've already dropped/recovered them.

>>	Owen !!KgaBqJMGXjE Tue Jul 12 03:29:41 2011 No.3377810 Ask NASA: >http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_459.html Our american tax dollars at work.

>>	Owen !!KgaBqJMGXjE Tue Jul 12 03:30:41 2011 No.3377816 File: 37 KB, 516x387, 138796main_image_feature_459_ys_4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3377810 Sorry, forgot the image.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:35:41 2011 No.3377836 LASER TAG IN SPACE We need to build antigravity gymnasiums. Real life Battle Room / Quidditch, fuck yeah.

not OP Tue Jul 12 03:39:41 2011 No.3377851

>>3377810
>>3377816

Well, building such a simply (and cheap) airplane that performs really well probably gave them some insight into more efficient designs for other, propelled air-vehicles. I wouldn't say the money was wasted. Kind of like the wind-tunnel tests by automobile companies.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 12 03:45:41 2011 No.3377879 >>3377836 my dream

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