"Sitting on the world's biggest gas tank, and one end is on fire!"


After the SpaceX launch was scrubbed due to weather on Wednesday, I went looking for a copy of this awesome slow motion Saturn-5 launch footage. 7.8 million pounds of thrust.

In frustration I checked copy after copy, only to find the host has dubbed music over the audio running the range from muzak to cheesy electronic cr.p.  I found a dozen videos exactly like that, each with the same footage but their choice of what to wreck the original sound track with.

 The sound of those incredibly powerful engines is the only music I want to hear.  and so I am putting up my own copy of it, sans any over-dubbing.

 NOTE:
 Thrust = force.
 Force alone takes no horsepower at all.
 Horsepower is force times distance per unit time.

 When the Saturn V engines start and it’s not moving at all, it has 7.8 million pounds of thrust, and ZERO horsepower. A fraction of a second later, if it’s rising at one foot per second, then its horsepower is 7.8 million…