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You don't see the extenuating circumstances here?

If someone pisses you off, you're within your rights to complain or perhaps to litigate, but not to throw things at them. If you don't understand that, then you're not equipped to function in society.

I wouldn't want to work for you,

Well, that's certainly something I can be thankful for today.

Are you a scientologist or something?

As it happens, the clams put me in their black list. Scientologits aren't even allowed to load web pages where my name appears.

-jcr

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

Besides Burning Man is full of religion, drunken debauchery, wierd forms of transport but most important FIRE

an open source flight computer .... feel free to steal the design and/or software

Well to paraphrase a rather sad movie "you call that a rocket, .... this is a rocket

100k ft is REALLY hard to reach - motors are extremely expensive and the technology is not wonderfully reliable. Mind you the US govt just banned all our motors due to the 'Patriot' act. On the other hand flying a light weight rocket to 6k is easy, people do it all the time - on cardboard and plywood - 100k requires lightweight composite materials that can stand flying thru mach 3

Having done that I known that writing flight code is HARD - not because the basic flight profile code is hard - for high power rockets it's not - it's hard because 95% of your code is error handling code that's hard to test - you don't even need a chunky cpu unless you're going to be doing real-time guidance sort of stuff - we used 8051s - the sort of thing that goes into toasters (but then 'cheap' was important to us - Murphy loves rockets - flight computers have to be easy to replace)

check out this exposition

like this one? .... (this also answers Timothy's "who uses engines larger than these?" question)

While I mostly agree I also beleive that anyone with $1M can build an RC5-64 cracker - I'm sure that the NSA would/will/has/could build one if they want to (a paper design I did a few years back is here) - roll on RC5-96

a long time protestor against Scientology's on-line spamming

alleria wrote:

Do they already know about _all_ of these links?

Pretty sure they do. There's a list of sites and words banned by the Church of Scientology's version of Cybersitter.

For more links, see the Open Directory Project's Opposing Views: Scientology section.

I fly (not quite that big) rockets for fun out in the NV desert - friends of mine made an attempt at over 100kft a while back (officially a sub-orbital flight) - the paper work is amazing - you have to do a lot of faiilure analysis, all this population density downrange statistics etc etc finally resulting in a final number estimate of the fraction of a person you will kill (statistically) during your flight ....

Personally I think he's crazy - I've seen a LOT of rockets go wrong (Murphy LOVES rockets they're his favorite thing :-) - I'd want at least a half dozen successfull unmanned flights under my belt brfore I strapped my skin into something like that

In a similar vein check out the (somewhat tounge-in-cheek - but realistic) paper on building an RC5-64 cracker I wrote a year or so ago at http://www.taniwha.com:80/~paul/rc5.html