{"id":918,"date":"2010-05-02T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T23:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=918"},"modified":"2012-01-17T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:42:21","slug":"once-again-with-the-lack-of-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Once again with the lack of updates…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s been pretty quiet around here lately. That’s mostly my fault. Alright, it’s completely my fault. Anyway, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing things. I’ve just been quite busy doing those things.<\/p>\n

Over spring break, I went down to the Black Rock desert in north-western Nevada where I and a bunch of other students at the University of Washington launched a bunch of big ass rockets. Despite the desert being quite cold, and getting sunburned despite it being cold, I think we all had a pretty damn good time. Our fasted rocket got to Mach 1.96, and a height above ground of approximately 18,000 feet. Here’s some pictures! These first few just give you an idea of where we are.<\/p>\n

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These next few show a few rockets going up and kicking ass (or having their asses kicked)<\/p>\n

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This one looked pretty good…<\/p>\n

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… until it buried itself.<\/p>\n

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It reminded me like a giant, more dangerous, rocket powered game of Jarts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You know what you get when you Jart a rocket going Mach 1+? Destroyed telemetry systems. Damn people, Jarting the telemetry boards that I worked so hard to build!<\/p>\n

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And of course there were casualties other than my telemetry systems.<\/p>\n

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Last but not least, we had to get a picture of the whole group holding our destroyed rocket bits. If you couldn’t figure it out, I’m all the way on the left.<\/p>\n

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Well, it’s been pretty quiet around here lately. That’s mostly my fault. Alright, it’s completely my fault. Anyway, that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been doing things. I’ve just been quite busy doing those things. Over spring break, I went … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-life","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}