Steve Jurvetson: The joy of rockets

Translator: Ales Rosina Reviewer: Miha Pelko

By day, I'm a venture capitalist.

Podnevi sem finančnik, ob vikendih pa ljubim rakete.

On weekends, I love rockets.

Rad fotografiram, rad imam rakete

I love photography, I love rockets.

I'm going to talk about a hobby that can scale

zato vam bom govorilo hobiju, ki se lahko raširi v strast

in prikazal nekaj fotografij, ki sem jih posnel tekom let

and show you photos I've taken over the years

s takšnimi otroci, ki bodo vzljubili raketarstvo

with kids like these, that hopefully will grow up to love rocketry

in morda postali naslednji Richard Branson ali Diamandis.

and eventually become a Richard Branson or Diamandis.

My son designed a rocket that became stable, a golf ball rocket.

Moj sin je ustvaril raketo, ki je stabilno poletela -

iz žogice za golf. Mislim, da je bil kar zanimiv eksperiment

I thought it was quite an interesting experiment

po principih raketne znanosti

in the principles of rocket science.

in poletela je naravnost kot puščica.

And it flies straight as an arrow.

Baking soda and vinegar.

Soda bikarbona in kis.

Night shots are beautiful,

Nočni posnetki so prečudoviti,

piercing the Big Dipper and the Milky Way.

ko preluknjaš Veliki voz in Mlečno cesto.

2-stage rockets with video cameras on them,

Dvo-nivojske rakete, rakete z nameščeno kamero,

z računalniki, ki beležijo celoten polet.

onboard computers logging their flights, rocket gliders that fly back to Earth.

Raketni jadralci, ki priletijo nazaj na zemljo.

I use RockSim to simulate flights before they go

Jaz uporabljam RockSim za simulacije poletov,

da preverim, če bodo prebile zvočni zid

to see if they'll break supersonic,

then fly them with onboard computers to verify performance.

in nato jih izstrelim z računalnikom, da preverim njihovo delovanje.

To launch the big stuff, you go to the middle of nowhere:

Ampak za izstrelitev res velikih raket, gremo tja, kjer ni nikogar -

v puščavo Black Rock, kjer se dogajajo nevarne stvari.

Black Rock Desert, where dangerous things happen.

In otroci rastejo, prav tako tudi rakete.

The boys and the rockets get bigger.

Uporabljajo motorje

They use motors used on cruise-missile boosters.

ki se dobesedno uporabljajo na pravih raketah.

They rumble the belly and leave even photographers in awe,

Prestrašijo tudi fotografe in jih pustijo v napetosti

watching the spectacle.

opazovanja spektakla.

These rockets use experimental motors like nitrous oxide.

Te rakete uprabljajo eksperimentalne motorje, npr. dušikov oksid.

They use solid propellant most frequently.

Vendar največkrat uporabljajo trdno gorivo.

It's a strange kind of love.

To je čudna ljubezen.

RocketMavericks.com with my photos, if you want to learn about this,

Imamo spletno stran Rocketmaverics.com z mojimi fotografijami

in če žečite več izvedeti - sodelujte, postanite opazovalec.

participate, be a spectator.

We had to call it Rocket Mavericks.

Posebneži. Morali smo jo poimenovati Raketa Posbnež.

This one was great, went to 100,000 feet -- but didn't quite.

Ta je bila prečudovita. Dvignila se nad 30.000 metrov,

vendar se je zapičila v zemljo kar 3 metre globoko

Actually, it went 11 feet into solid clay and became a bunker-buster.

in postala "uničevalec bunkerjev"

z naletom v trdno zemljo - morali smo jo izkopati.

It had to be dug out.

Rockets often spiral out of control if you put too much propellant in them.

Rakete velikokrat pobegnejo izpod nadzora, če jo napolnimo s preveč goriva.

Tukaj smo imeli hitrostno dirko.

Here was a drag race.

Ponoči se lahko vidi, kaj se zgodi v sekundi,

At night you can see what happened in a second;

podnevi jim pa rečemo zemljski morski psi.

in daytime, we call them land sharks.

Sometimes they just explode before your eyes or come down supersonic.

Včasih eksplodirajo pred očmi, drugič priletijo z nadzvočno hitrostjo na tla.

(smeh)

(Laughter)

To take this shot, I did what I often do, which is go way beyond the pads,

Za ta posnetek sem naredil nekaj, kar ponavadi naredim,

in sicer, da grem daleč stran od izstrelišča, kjer ni nikogar.

where none of the spectators are.

In če lahko pokažem video, boste videli, kaj je potrebno

And if we can run the video, I'll show you what it took

da nastane tak sanjski posnetek.

to get this DreamWorks shot.

(Video) Voices: Woo-hoo! Yeah. Nice.

Video: Zvoki: Super.

Steve Jurvetson: They realize the computer failed, they're yelling "Deploy!"

Steve Jurvetson: To ni pogosto. Tukaj so ugotovili, da je računalnik odpovedal.

Kričijo naj igrajo. Kričijo naj igrajo. Zvoki: Oh, sranje.

(Video) Man: Oh, shit.

SJ: This is when they realize everything's gone haywire.

SJ: Tukaj so ugotovili, da gre na krovu rakete vse narobe.

Zvoki: Vrača se. Oh, sranje.

(Video) Man: It's going ballistic.

SJ: In jaz bom samo tiho.

Zvoki: Ne.

SJ: I'll just be quiet.

(Video) Woman: No!

Come on, come on, come on.

Gor, gor, gor.

SJ: And that's me over there, taking photos the whole way.

SJ: In tam stojim jaz, medtem ko fotografiram celotno zadevo.

Things often go wrong.

Zadeve gredo pogosto narobe.

Some people watch this because of a NASCAR-like fascination

Nekateri gledajo na ta dogodek kot NASCAR občudovanje

with things bumping and grinding.

s stvarmi, ki se zaletavajo, zažigajo padala, ko pada proti tlom -

Burning the parachute as it fell. That was last weekend.

to je bilo prejšnji vikend.

Tale tip je šel navzgor, prišel do nadzvočne hitrosti, mu oddtrgalo del,

This guy went up, went supersonic, ripped the fin can off.

ga raznelo po nebu

The art sale in the sky.

in goreči deli so prišli nazaj.

A burning metal hunk coming back.

These things dropped down from above all through the weekend

Te stvari so padale z neba še cel vikend

od izstrelitve raket, ki stalno potekajo.

of rocket launch after rocket launch.

To je kadenca, ki si jo težko predstavljate.

It's a cadence you can't quite imagine.

In v mnogih letih sem poskušal to zajeti -

I try to capture the mishaps; it's a challenge in photography

to je izziv v fotografiji, ko se dogajajo take stvari

when these things take place in a fraction of a second.

v le delčku sekunde.

Why do it? For things like this:

Zakaj to sploh počnjo? Predvsem zaradi:

Gene from Alabama drives out there

Gene iz Alabame se pripelje do tam

with this rocket he's built with X-ray sensors, video cameras,

s svojo raketo, ki jo je zgradil, z detektorji rendgenskih žarkov, kamerami,

festooned with electronics.

naložene z elektroniko in uspelo mu je doseči 30km,

He succeeds getting to 100,000 feet,

leaving the atmosphere, seeing a thin blue line of space.

zapustiti atmosfero in videti tanko linijo vesolja.

To je sapo jemajoča fotografija -

It is this breathtaking image -- success, of course -- that motivates us

uspeh, seveda - ki nas motivira.

and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science,

In motivira otroke, ki nam sledijo in razumejo raketno znanost,

understand the importance of physics and math

kot razumevanje pomembnosti fizike in matematike,

and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration

in v mnogih pogledih imeti bojazen pri raziskovanju

nam neznaega.

of the frontiers of the unknown.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Aplavz)