r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InsaneMocktail • Sep 08 '26

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/coldpassion Sep 08 '26

Breaking world record of....? Speed? Height? Noise? Spins? Fuel Consumption? All the previous?

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u/01010110_ Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

World record of amateur rocket altitude at 63k feet (edit: liquid propellant rocket)

Edit 2: Since people are so excited about my use of feet, the altitude could be measured approximately as;

  • 9,852 toises
  • 22,860 varas (using the 0.84-meter Spanish standard)
  • 109.1 to 122.3 stadia (depending on whether the 157-meter or 176-meter anient Greek standard is applied)
  • 62.09 hPa or millibars.

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u/ftrlvb Creator Sep 08 '26

who measures in feet? we should measure in matchboxes or coins

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u/KylAnde01 Sep 08 '26

My car gets forty rods to the hogs head, and that's the way I likes it!

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u/GregTheIntelectual Sep 08 '26

Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945. Good news this was the swift end of a brutal authorization fascist regime.

Bad news, it was also the end of the metric system in Aviation.

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u/Away-Commercial-4380 Sep 08 '26

The problem is that 1000ft is a perfect separation with modern aircrafts. Using multiples of 300 as flight levels just sucks (Hello Russia and China)