rocketkart
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its like a lollipop with a tootsie roll in the center of it. you never had one?
oh so soft candy in hard candy.. right?
Well I don't know about you, but the last lollipop I had .. that was... uhm ...well there must be a cave carving somewhere in middle asia showing me with that lollipop;
Anyways, few licks and a bite and it's gone.
But if that was a genuine question, then my answer would be:
that depends:
on age, tongue size, amount of saliva invloved and viscosity of said saliva and maybe even on temperature
It's about how fast can you dissolve the sugar crystals, and how many papilla can make contact with what force to 'scrub' it.
I'd say it's either a fun question (a rhyme most likely) or there is no answer without an essay about many different factors
'sid
we will try a bit of aussie history
first white men to Australia
and what was the name of the ship that was wreaked on a reef west of Australia
hints the ship was owned by a huge transport company
and some survivors turned cannibal
the ship
if that doesnt get him we will try some aboriginal history
jet engine? or a A bomb?
jet engine? or a A bomb?
I think Pineapplejuice
'sid
I should string this out a little more, but since I stumped Sid, I spill it. It's the preburner engine that powers the main fuel pumps in the main engines aboard the Space Transportation System- AKA NASA's "Space Shuttle".
itsid said:Rocket engines are quite powerfull, and if we talk about a single module without tanks and such they might be small enough in size; but I don't know any that small and that powerfull
(and I don't even remember how to convert thrust to horsepower atm)
None, because footballs don't have feathers.
Yep
Batavia
so basically part of a rocket engine
beer keg 16-17 in diameter x 23 inches roughly.. right?
Bad thing about your question:
you mixed two different parts.
The low pressure fuel turbo pump is about the size of a beer keg (18 dia by 24 inches) but it doesn't produce anything CLOSE to that amount of power, in fact it has to be powered by the MAIN engine to provide fuel to the preburner!
it's also feeding the high pressure fuel turbo pump
which is unfortunately bigger (22 dia by 43 inches)
but on the other hand indeed is powered by the preburner for about 3sec. (self sustaining process)
and said preburner is the same diameter and just about an inch shorter than the HPFTP it is welded to.
and now for the really bad part without the LPFTP the HPFTP is unable to produce ANY power.
together they produce 71.200 HP (well in the RS-25 engine)
so we're talking about 22 x 85 inches [HPFTP and preburner are welded together] plus additional LPFTP (the beer keg) plus other parts to get it started (say the main engine, we don't measure that one, do we )
I don't think we can call that about the size of a beer keg, even if we Only measure the preburner, it's diameter is as big as the beer kegs height, and it's height twice as big.
The burning device itself is much smaller to be honest (10 inch in diameter and just 4.5 in length)
Oh well... whatever...
'sid