Re: First Saturn V launch-in Guinness Book?

From: Frank Scrooby (X_at_Xer.com)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:53:48 +0200

Hi all

"Pat Flannery" <flanner@daktel.com> wrote in message
news:10o0sngqrnan106@corp.supernews.com...
>
>
> Peter Stickney wrote:
>
> >WEspecially since the Saturn spread its noise over a wide path in spae
> >and time as it climbed out, and the N-1 concentrated it's noise by
> >releasing it all at once.
> >
>
> Well, one N-1 _almost_ got to the end of its first stage burn before it
> blew up. :-)
> Actually, it would be interesting to figure out if the 30 N-1
> first-stage motors or five Saturn V first stage motors made more noise.
> Since the F-1s were larger, did they generate a lower frequency sound?

I'm just guessing here but how do the very large chemical explosions used to
calibrate sensors before the Trinity (that is the right name - Manhatten
Project first A-bomb) test weight in?

What about that explosion in that Canadian port (harbour?) during WWI (I
can't remember the name, something with a 'H'), that was supposed to be in
the kiloton range. It erased substancial portions of the town.

As impressive as the Saturn V and N-1 were can they really outweigh
thousands of tons of TNT or ammonia nitrate all unwrapping itself in the
same instant?

>
> Pat
>

I'm not an expert on these matters, and I'd much rather watch and listen to
a Saturn V rising into the clouds than see (or hear the cause of ) a
mushroom cloud ascending into the heavens.

Regards
Frank Scrooby

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