Rockets

Daredevil driver Andy Green shows off the interior of the carbon fiber cockpit of the Bloodhound SSC, a mad 135,000hp rocket- and jet-powered vehicle that will eventually hit speeds up to 1,000mph. More on 95octane.

Mountain Dew Kickstart’s new commercial spot features the simultaneous launch of 800+ model rockets, sparkling into the night sky. The behind the scenes video shows off more footage of the pyrotechnic magic – no CGI involved.

FinalCutKing pokes fun at Amazon’s proposed drone-based shipping system with Amazon Rockets – which would offer delivery in just three to five minutes. Just like Amazon Prime Air, it’s got some kinks which need to be worked out.

Ryan McNaught (as in “astronaught”) built this incredible Saturn V rocket from over 120,000 LEGO bricks. The 19 foot-tall spaceship even has a tiny NASA Astrovan to deliver its flight crew.

By filling plastic soda bottles with water under extremely high pressures (120psi), these guys managed to launch a rocket to a height of 864 feet. Fortunately, they didn’t us Diet Coke and Mentos.

We’re pretty sure this classic Mustang isn’t street-legal. At least not in our neighborhood. Actually, this bad boy was seen being filmed for PINKS All Out. We wish we knew when to set our DVRs.

Introducing the T-minus Tree: using differential calculus, a car battery, and 32 engines wired in parallel, two DIY’ers find a way to “reuse” their Christmas tree by turning it into a rocket.

Have your own mini-NASA minus the rocket fuel with a DIY Water Rocket: it’s a single stage soda bottle with drop-away boosters that can propel it up to 600 feet on water and air.

The folks over at Verna’s Vipers have DIY instructions not just for a single Battlestar Galactica Viper rocket, but an entire squadron: build everything from the MK II to the Blackbird.

Talk about serious hooptie pwnage: the lovably psychotic Mythbusters duo decides to pancake a car using a two-stage rocket that hits 700mph; the results are predictably explosive.