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Hmm i wonder how much thrust the Saturn 5 Rocket produced? ote]
7,600,000 lbf of thrust for the 1st stage I believe...

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DungenessDank said:
I'm no engineer but that is a mighty fine piece of machinery

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You don't hafta be an engineer to appreciate beautiful technology...nothing quite like an engine as big as a bus with tolerances below 5/1000th of an inch (0.127 mm) The high pressure stages of the compressor had loose blades that you could wiggle around with ur hand just to account for the thermal expansion and the lengthening of parts under the incredible centripetal forces generated.

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DungenessDank said:
I can appreciate that from a standpoint, I consider myself an armchair academic.

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Right on dude I went to college but I'm a firm believer in the self-taught academic, and I myself practice this outside of my major. Some of the smartest people I have ever met never wasted their money at a University and instead utilized the local library, organizations, and recently the interwebs as their self-motivated university

I know who I'm gonna come to the next time I want a challenging conversation or just need some help with something I don't know much about

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DungenessDank said:
By all means, I'll have a discussion on anything I know a little about, but what I really like is when I'm presented with something I know nothing about, and have to educate myself on the subject

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my god I think we may have been separated at birth...are you a skinny white dude with really bad eyesight and no coordination??? actually that pretty much covers about 50 million people in the US alone

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Alounacara said:
Hmm i wonder how much thrust the Saturn 5 Rocket produced?

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You're switching from Metric to imperial. The instantaneous thrust would be Newtons, and the total impulse would be Newton seconds.  Lbf can be used to measure thrust yes, but I misread your sentence initially since lbf can mean both "pounds force" and (much much much much more commonly) "pound-feet" which is used to measure torque.

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due to the high torque generated.....(record set at 127,900 lbf of thrust)

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  My brain put the word torque at the end of that sentence for some reason

However, the moral of the story is that it's bad etiquette to switch from pound force to Newtons.

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That's not really a relevant comparison since the GE90 is a turbine jet engine and the Saturn 5 is a liquid fueled rocket. Completely different mechanisms of thrust generation. Plus the number he quoted was lbf of torque, not Newton Seconds of thrust.

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and the english unit of torque is pound-foot, but the more common terminology is foot-pound, abbreviated lb-ft and ft-lb, respectively.

Also I apologize for mentioning torque followed by the thrust capabilities, that was a really confusing sentence now that I think about it