Could the ancient spacecraft use gunpowder as a solid propellant for the adjustable rocket motor?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Could the spacecraft use the iron dust as the propellant? And could it control the power of the motor, that the punch would be gentle? In fact, the answer will be "yes".  The system would drive the iron dust by using a cogwheel system through the hole, what is surrounded by very powerful magnets.  This could be a very advanced nuclear-powered system, but in ancient times would be used something more conventional thing, what could be gunpowder, what is dosed in the combustion chamber by the conveyor and cogwheel. 

But in fact, I think that the spacecraft could use also gunpowder in that thing. In this conventional model would the system drive the gunpowder in the middle of the saucer-shaped craft, and the system might be similar, what is used in the steam engines. But the gunpowder would be driven to the chamber by the cogwheel and then ignite by the spark. 

In this system, the magnets are replaced by the burner or grate, what would be ring-shaped, and the feeding system would drive the gunpowder through it. The fire would create by using methane or some other gas or gasoline or acetone, what would be burned in this grate. The burning of this combination would allow that the gases of the burning powder would act like in every other spacecraft. They would push that thing upwards, and the horizontal, if there would be exhausters in the sides of the saucer-shaped craft.

When I think about the aviation, and the things around it, this kind of things might be even tested in ancient times. Technology has become more advanced, and in the past times the things, what we might think as usual and everyday equipment could be classified in the 19th. a century and earlier, because the information was not moving so fast as today. 

Of course, there are people like me, who are talking about crystals, what would be warmed to create the heated-air pylon or the ion motors, what would allow the craft to fly, And the first one could operate by using an acetylene-oxygen burner to create the needed upthrust. And in the most modern versions, the carbon fiber stick in the middle of the craft would be heated by using lased, and that heat will allow the craft to fly. but there is the thing, that the last one needs very powerful engines.

Strange idea for parabolic mirrors

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Above the text is painting, what was made by my favorite artist Hieronymus Bosch, and the idea of this painting is that there is a dog, with the mysterious parabolic structure on the head. There are claiming, that the purpose of this structure was to be the pike, what denies the horse step on the dog. But there is another very interesting thought about this painting and the structure, what was on the head of the dog.


The parabolic shape would collect the sunlight on the top of the structure, and makes it extremely hot. If the dog is trained to look for the gunpowder, would the hot pike make the hole to the sag, and then the gunpowder will explode. This is one way to think about that structure. Also, the firewire can use for giving fire to the explosive shack.


In the modern ages, CIA has investigated the way to put the small micro- or radio wave transmitters on the head of trained rats. Those rats are trained to find the ammunition or fuel storages, and when they are in there, the remote controller would begin to use the transmitter. The electric arc would explode the explosives and fuel inside the warehouse. There is a simple way to train animals to look for the explosives.


They would be fed in the way, that they are thinking, that explosives are the food, and then those rats would be dropped near the target. Then they would go to those ammunition bases, and because microwave transmitters are invisible in the sensors, what mission is to detect the explosives, those animals are extremely dangerous. That kind of advanced biological weapons can cause terrible damages if they succeed to slip in the ammunition storage, and then start to use the microwave transmitters in that place.


The transmitter itself can use capacitors, what are actually Layden's bottles, and that kind of things are not able to see in the explosive detectors. Then the timer or radio-signal would connect those capacitors to the transmitter, and that will make the temperature rise in the ammunition, and microwaves would give extremely fast rise for the temperature in the metal pieces. The copper shell of the grenades would start to shine red when the microwave would strike them and the explosives would detonate if this kind of weapon would be used.

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