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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nuke on September 02, 2004, 01:46:09 am

Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Nuke on September 02, 2004, 01:46:09 am: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/2004/8/xprize_blowups/

more reasons why burt rutan is gonna win the x prize :D
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Fineus on September 02, 2004, 02:45:27 am: A pity, I rather hope that privitised space flight will jolt people out of fighting eachother and into exploration etc.
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Knight Templar on September 02, 2004, 02:46:50 am: Sucks for him I guess.
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Martinus on September 02, 2004, 10:22:16 am: [color=66ff00]You know I couldn't find one picture of the damn spacecraft on the site, just a rather ill concieved vtol lander.

What gives?
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Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Kazan on September 02, 2004, 12:15:01 pm: carmack should stick to his day job

that's what gives
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: aldo_14 on September 02, 2004, 01:43:43 pm: Ach, everyone needs a hobby. If it involves blowing **** up, all the more fun*.

*Does not apply to Osama Bin Ladin or George Bush. It's nota hobby for them......
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: magatsu1 on September 02, 2004, 02:58:20 pm: yeah, they get paid to do that (in a round about kinda way)
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: ChronoReverse on September 02, 2004, 03:23:57 pm: The article said his ship crashed since fuel stopped flowing in to the engine. The other rocket exploded.
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Vaelinx on September 02, 2004, 05:19:54 pm: Well... apparetly it is as hard as rocket science ;)

I should know... it's a long process and there's alot that can go wrong...
Title: carmack's rocket blew up
Post by: Nuke on September 02, 2004, 08:50:09 pm: oddly enough carmack wrote the engine control software himself, i guess he forgot to kill some bugs.