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Carmack Needs Rocket Fuel

Posted by timothy on from the young-man-what-is-all-this-for dept.

Reality Master 101 writes "Saw an interesting post on the Experimental Rocket Propulsion Society BBS from John Carmack, who is working on an X-prize vehicle. Apparently he is having a lot of trouble getting Peroxide from the major suppliers, and is possibly thinking of helping someone set up a company to produce peroxide. With NASA's recent problems, there has been a lot of talk about promoting more private investment in rocketry. But how can it happen when the suppliers won't even sell peroxide to well financed, registered, X-prize teams? Anyone want to start a peroxide business?"

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  1. No way! by svindler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We definitely do not want blonde rocket scientists!

  2. Noticed in message by DenOfEarth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'm too lazy to read more information (hehe, I leave that to other /.er's), but he mentioned that this was only a trial balloon. So what's the deal, lift a balloon up really high and then launch something off of it, or simply use the balloon to float most of the way and then propel itself with something else out of the atmosphere. Seems like an interesting idea, but the difference in altitudes between what a balloon in air can go and the orbiting radius are pretty huge...

    Anyways, I'd send a bottle if I had one.

  3. Sure... by Xacid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...as long as it doesn't turn out to be anything like my dot com business.

  4. Re:Only problem by drfreak · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If Microsoft can't launch a secure product, why are we as open source users/developers/advocates attempting it?

  5. Re:Lable under terrorist by Ashran · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry but you've played too much BushQuest.

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