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Armadillo Flies... Briefly
david.given writes "Armadillo Aerospace did their first untethered test flight last week, at the Oklahoma Spaceport, using their new tube-shaped rocket. Predicted height was fifteen hundred feet; unfortunately a computer failure caused the vehicle to tip over and dive into the ground from a hundred feet up, causing severe damage (i.e., it requires a rebuild, not a repair). See the report and the slightly depressing video footage."
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Too bad John Carmack wasn't in that rocket.
Rock on, Anonymous Pancake, you were the first!
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What do you all slashbotters beleive about this business-model?
1) Write free software.
2) ?
3) Eat a banana.
4) Profit!
Why this??????? Hemos&Taco
I literally was rolling on the floor, laughing!
I fucking had tears in my eyes, and a droplet of urine on my panties is now chilling my leg!!
Beautiful! Just beautiful! I love you!
Ahem.. Aren't all rockets tube shaped?
Fact: Armadillo Aerospace is dying
We should all keep in mind this simple truth: Armadillo Aerospace is dying.
You don't need to be Kreskin to predict Armadillo Aerospace's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Armadillo Aerospace faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Armadillo Aerospace because Armadillo Aerospace is dying. Things are looking very bad for Armadillo Aerospace. As many of us are already aware, Armadillo Aerospace continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Famed Armadillo Aerospace bigwig Bill Kourie states that there are 7000 configurations of their rocket. How many does NASA have? Let's see. The number of Armadillo Aerospace versus NASA posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NASA visitors. Boeing posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NASA posts. Therefore there are about 700 visitors to Boeing. A recent article put ESA at about 80 percent of the aerospace market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Boeing visitors. This is consistent with the number of ESA Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of Armadillo Aerospace's rockets , abysmal slashdotting of the website and so on, Armadillo Aerospace is doomed while NASA runs other troubled aerospace ideas. Now ESA is also dead,its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Armadillo Aerospace has steadily declined in market share. Armadillo Aerospace is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Armadillo Aerospace is to survive at all it will be among aerospace hobbyists, dabblers, and dilettantes. Armadillo Aerospace continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Armadillo Aerospace is dead
Fact: Armadillo Aerospace is dying
Trolling is a art,
Unfortunately, your link still loads the stunning images from the original site. Here is a google link that gets the images too from the cache
Don't worry, google has a mirror!
I could understand if the computer just fell apart or blew up, but it didn't. It was a bug. A dumbass programmer forgot to put a semi-colon at the end of the damn line.
72. Modern society is in certain respects extremely permissive. In matters that are irrelevant to the functioning of the system we can generally do what we please. We can believe in any religion we like (as long as it does not encourage behavior that is dangerous to the system). We can go to bed with anyone we like (as long as we practice "safe sex"). We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT. But in all IMPORTANT matters the system tends increasingly to regulate our behavior.
73. Behavior is regulated not only through explicit rules and not only by the government. Control is often exercised through indirect coercion or through psychological pressure or manipulation, and by organizations other than the government, or by the system as a whole. Most large organizations use some form of propaganda [14] to manipulate public attitudes or behavior. Propaganda is not limited to "commercials" and advertisements, and sometimes it is not even consciously intended as propaganda by the people who make it. For instance, the content of entertainment programming is a powerful form of propaganda. An example of indirect coercion: There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer's orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners. Hence most of us can survive only as someone else's employee.
74. We suggest that modern man's obsession with longevity, and with maintaining physical vigor and sexual attractiveness to an advanced age, is a symptom of unfulfillment resulting from deprivation with respect to the power process. The "mid-life crisis" also is such a symptom. So is the lack of interest in having children that is fairly common in modern society but almost unheard-of in primitive societies.
75. In primitive societies life is a succession of stages. The needs and purposes of one stage having been fulfilled, there is no particular reluctance about passing on to the next stage. A young man goes through the power process by becoming a hunter, hunting not for sport or for fulfillment but to get meat that is necessary for food. (In young women the process is more complex, with greater emphasis on social power; we won't discuss that here.) This phase having been successfully passed through, the young man has no reluctance about settling down to the responsibilities of raising a family. (In contrast, some modern people indefinitely postpone having children because they are too busy seeking some kind of "fulfillment." We suggest that the fulfillment they need is adequate experience of the power process -- with real goals instead of the artificial goals of surrogate activities.) Again, having successfully raised his children, going through the power process by providing them with the physical necessities, the primitive man feels that his work is done and he is prepared to accept old age (if he survives that long) and death. Many modern people, on the other hand, are disturbed by the prospect of death, as is shown by the amount of effort they expend trying to maintain their physical condition, appearance and health. We argue that this is due to unfulfillment resulting from the fact that they have never put their physical powers to any use, have never gone through the power process using their bodies in a serious way. It is not the primitive man, who has used his body daily for practical purposes, who fears the deterioration of age, but the modern man, who has never had a practical use for his body beyond walking from his car to his house. It is the man whose need for the power process has been satisfied during his life who is best prepared to accept the end of that life.
76. In response to the arguments of this section someone will say, "Society must find a way to give people the opportunity to go through the power process." For such people the value of the opportunity is destroyed by the very fact that society gives it to them. What they need is to find or make their own opportunities. As long as the system GIVES them their opportunities it still has them on a leash. To attain autonomy they must get off that leash.