Paper planes from outer space!

[TechnoHippyChic]

A spacecraft made of folded paper zooming through the skies may sound far-fetched, but Japanese scientists plan to launch paper planes from the International Space Station to see if they make it back to Earth.

On Wednesday the University of Tokyo researchers tested small, origami planes made of special paper for 30 seconds in 482 degrees Fahrenheit heat and wind at seven times the speed of sound. The planes survived the wind tunnel test intact.

Origami. Superior.

 

[Que-Ever]

Major leap in paper technology.

 

[Eejit]

Typical Japanese idea

 

[Seppo]

Don't they have anything better to do? Like scientific research or something?

 

[Darkside55]

Head of research:

 

[Sulkdodds]

...wat

 

[Darkside55]

Yomiko Readman. She can alter the shape and density of paper, and has created a giant paper plane to fly around in.

 

[Eejit]

Did you expect many of us to recognise her?

 

[Krynn72]

Paper Airplanes are sweet.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KZmUaFBCoa0

 

[Darkside55]

Did you expect many of us to recognise her?

Sometimes I forget where I am.

 

[cheddarrr]

Paper Airplanes are sweet.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KZmUaFBCoa0

yay for littering!

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

That was worth it, though.

 

[AtomicSpark]

Yomiko Readman. She can alter the shape and density of paper, and has created a giant paper plane to fly around in.

[SIZE=-1]R. O. D.[/SIZE] was on SciFi the other night. That's the only way I know what you're talking about.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Surely they'd burn up in...?

Nevermind, its a japanese experiment

 

[Tyguy]

dont use foam!

 

[Escaep]

Now all they need to do is make that paper survive 3000 degree reentry heat and 11,000 meters per second reentry speed, which is what the Space Shuttle endures.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

They're so light they won't come in that fast, just float down...

 

[Escaep]

They're so light they won't come in that fast, just float down...

Still needs to go through the atmosphere. Your right it's not that fast, but it still has to be hella strong.

 

[ríomhaire]

To float gently through the atmosphere? They're all just going to get wet and fall to pieces

 

[Glirk Dient]

Yomiko Readman. She can alter the shape and density of paper, and has created a giant paper plane to fly around in.

That is the exact reason anime is so unbearable for me. That sounds like the stupidest shit ever.

As for the paper planes from outer space...won't it take years for those stupid things to slowly fly back and forth until it hits ground? Also...I vote that they attach caterpillar pilots.

 

[Darkside55]

That is the exact reason anime is so unbearable for me. That sounds like the stupidest shit ever.

Yeah, it's pretty ludicrous for a power. I mean, if you were fighting someone and they told you, "I have powers over paper!" Well, anybody'd laugh their heads off.

Until, y'know, she conducted a flow of paper slips into your throat causing you to die of horrible asphyxiation. You ever contemplated what it'd be like to choke to death? The sudden stoppage of breath, your eyes rolling back in your head, panic and desperation as you grasp at your throat, even going so far as to reach in and try to pull out the clog of wet, sopping paper that now blocks your trachea? And then you start getting lightheaded and your lungs are pounding, but all it does is make that slick gob of paper slide deeper down your throat.

But hey, anybody'd laugh.

 

[Godron]

If you drop a paper plane from a hot air balloon or something, it will glide, and it won't even reach terminal velocity. Even if it did, that wouldn't be enough to make it burn up. I'm guessing that if you drop one from space, it could accelerate to above terminal velocity before it re-enters the atmosphere, due to the lack of air resistance. So it would heat up. However, being very light, it would probably slow down very quickly once in entered the atmosphere.

 

[<RJMC>]

what if the paper plane get into the atmosphere into super high speed and pierce trough a person killing it instantly?

 

[Darkside55]

I would consider that a very successful experiment.

But then we'd have to nuke Japan again to keep them from using atmospheric paper planes as a weapon.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Couldn't we just harvest Brazil and drop a big plane on them?