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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."
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!
I hate to be the one...
This was posted this morning.
Personally its not God I dislike, its his fan club I cant stand (bash.org)
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?
About the same amount of time one might get with a Rocket Gun assisted jump?
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.
Armadillo Aerospace
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
"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..