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Armadillo Rocket Makes A (Short) Manned Hop
riney writes "w00t! John Carmack and crew at Armadillo Aerospace have gotten their first man in the air. Six seconds of perfectly controlled flight with human passenger. See their site for details and video."
One giant leap for an armadillo!
But seriously, this is great news for the industry that a private company has such success.
the time it takes to drop their web server?
That's about as long as the server managed to survive a good, old-fashioned slashdotting!
You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
You slashdotted John Carmack! You bastards!
Meanwhile, across town, John Romero is working hard on a prototype BFG to blow said rocket out of the air.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Dude, their pilot did better than their webserver...
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Apparently the only real design concern is that the craft tends to roll itself up into a ball in emergency situations...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
The flight was shortened due to the fact that the company's webserver was located inside the rocket.
Ahh... the slashdot effect is now one step closer to entering orbit.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
About the same amount of time one might get with a Rocket Gun assisted jump?
After such a flight, we were planning to do more launches. Our Ultimate goal was space but we have been slashdotted, and our "burtable" bandwidth has killed our budget.
Thanks Slashdot.
-- Tim
TKrabec Pahh
the one passanger of the rocket was able to reach a height sufficient to obtain the coveted Quad Damage previously only accessible through a series of floating jump-pads. Experts predict this will give the passenger the edge needed to frag the camping BFG whore.
I'm currenty wearing the Perl Camel t-shirt from thinkgeek.com. The code on the back is more neatly formatted than your post is. Congratulations.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
Man, the trolls keep getting lazier and lazier; now they're giving us 300-in-1 troll posts, rather than going to the trouble to post that often...
... At least it'd be even easier to filter out... :]
Now, if only the spammers could do that & we could get 1 catch-all spam (instead of 30) offering to spam 1,000,000 people with length-enhancing herbal viagra that will repair your credit history and attract hot lesbian sluts, all while letting you know if your SO is cheating on you and giving you someone else's "nakked pics"
While trying to visit the website, I keep hearing the Quake 3 voice in my head saying, "Denied".
"It was a fun couple of seconds. When can I do it again?"
Russell Blink
First Amateur to ride a fully guided ballistic rocket?
"We had an ambulance on site, just in case. This is surprisingly inexpensive, and should be considered by anyone doing something potentially dangerous. The vehicle is chained securely to the ground, with chain wrapped around the main frame in two places, and connected to two big eye bolts sunk in the concrete. Nylon rope is wound through most of the chain links to act as a shock absorber, rather than let the chain come up hard."
Wouldn't the ambulance be more useful if it weren't chained to the ground?
pthththtt..