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BBC's Water Rocket-Vehicle Contest

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-your-work-in-the-air dept.

jmichaelg writes: "The BBC is running a rocket contest to see who can build the fastest 2 liter water bottle propelled vehicle. The idea is you use a bicycle pump to pressurize the bottle to drive the vehicle. There are pressure limits (no more than 70 psi) so dry ice is out of the question. Gotta use a bike pump. Fastest car to go 20 meters is the winner. If you're going to play, you had better get going ... contest ends on Nov 6." Bonus points if you're riding it at the time.

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  1. OFFTOPIC: Slashcode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did anyone else just get a really messed up layout with the Slashcode graphics?
    It was fixed as soon as I reloaded. Maybe Taco is upgrading.

  2. Re:hrm... by gdchinacat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think that the beer you speak of so fondly may be clouding your judgment. The holy FRIST POST is a competetion to see who can spew out the most intelligent sounding drivel before any one else has a similar brain-fart.

  3. ok by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ok let's face it people: apache and gcc are pretty much the only open source projects worth the time it takes to download them...

    the rest is a bunch of crap.

    The 90s are over people, the reality of open source is setting in.

    here we are almost in 2002, mozilla 1.0 still isn't out, redhat still has more vulnerabilities than you can shake a stick at and there are no usable office apps...

    not unlike the hippy generation at the end of the 60s, it's time for you open source poofters to get back to reality...

  4. YHBT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Have a nice day...