Fwd: eggdrop (no tcl involved)

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Alvin Jiang

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May 27, 2012, 8:19:59 AM5/27/12
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I'd like to organise a Hackerspace.SG eggdrop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_competition

Does anyone own or manage a 4+ storey building with understanding
(preferably non-existent) ground-floor tenants?

I'd offer my place but I suspect the milo-tin metal of my japanese car
will result in a free sunroof.

Benjamin Scherrey

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May 27, 2012, 9:24:47 AM5/27/12
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We used to do this with model rocketry. No building necessary (or wanted). Had to avoid rocket eating trees too. You got points for the rocket that went the highest but was able to land the payload without breaking the egg. Is model rocketry legal in Singapore???

 -- Ben

Alvin Jiang

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May 27, 2012, 12:13:24 PM5/27/12
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they're not illegal far as i know but we'd have to find a place for it.
all the suitable places are taken up by other grey-area hobbyists who
mind object (the model airplane and kite-flyers.)

the solid-fuel engines are pretty hard to come by too, and importing
them without a permit is almost certainly illegal.

On 27.05.12 21:24 , Benjamin Scherrey wrote:
> We used to do this with model rocketry. No building necessary (or
> wanted). Had to avoid rocket eating trees too. You got points for the
> rocket that went the highest but was able to land the payload without
> breaking the egg. Is model rocketry legal in Singapore???
>
> -- Ben
>
> On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Alvin Jiang <aji...@gmail.com
> <mailto:aji...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
> I'd like to organise a Hackerspace.SG eggdrop
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/__Egg_drop_competition
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_drop_competition>
>
> Does anyone own or manage a 4+ storey building with understanding
> (preferably non-existent) ground-floor tenants?
>
> I'd offer my place but I suspect the milo-tin metal of my japanese car
> will result in a free sunroof.
>
> --
> Chat: http://hackerspace.sg/chat
>
>
> --
> Chat: http://hackerspace.sg/chat

Benjamin Scherrey

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May 27, 2012, 12:54:03 PM5/27/12
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That's too bad. Singapore's proximity to the equator makes it an ideal location for an orbital launch site. I'd love to kick off a private space group in Singapore ala SpaceX, X-corp, et al. A good hobbyist ecology would make it something quite exciting I think. 

  -- Ben

Michael Cheng

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May 27, 2012, 10:52:18 PM5/27/12
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Trivia: The original plans for Virgin Galactic includes a space port to be located in Singapore.

Regards,

Michael Cheng CM
Mobile: +65 9185 5166


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Jason Ong

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May 27, 2012, 11:00:13 PM5/27/12
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On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Michael Cheng <mchen...@gmail.com> wrote:
Trivia: The original plans for Virgin Galactic includes a space port to be located in Singapore.

Really? What happened then?

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JasonOng

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James Rivett-Carnac

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May 29, 2012, 11:33:10 PM5/29/12
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Yeah, Rocketry near major airports is always really heavily controlled.  Vigin Galactic doesn't use a standard rocket setup, but a piggyback on a plane, so it isn't really the same as spaceX.

Ben, my life goal is to die on the moon, or trying to get there, so I'm all over the idea of anything space related :)

j

Ben van der Merwe

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May 29, 2012, 11:46:45 PM5/29/12
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James, I'm right beside you on this.

I had code running up there long before Mark Shuttleworth and Elon Musk got around to getting their bits launched. Bloody upstarts! :p

Next stop, the moon!


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