Starchaser Plans Test Drop

cwalkden writes "Everybody's favourite amateur rocketman, Steve Bennett has unveiled his new space capsule that he hopes will get him one step closer to the edge of space. This one is due to undergo a test descent (with Steve inside) in Arizona. Earlier versions of Steve's capsules included one made with a cement mixer and some old joysticks." Our previous story was in 2001.

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Re:Bennet's early "tests" were HP model rocket fli

[knowledgepeacewi]

Nothing wrong with that, but you can't really learn anything of value by doing this that would be applicable in making a rocket capable of boosting a capsule to office.
And GNU and FSF wanted to use a micro-kernel for what would be their operatings system: the Hurd.

Linux does things the old-fashioned way and here we are today. With something that works.

Re:Bennet's early "tests" were HP model rocket fli

[drinkypoo]

You know, it strikes me that if the amount of effort expended on Linux had been split between FreeBSD and the Hurd, the Hurd would be closer, and we wouldn't need Linux. Of course, it didn't work out that way, partly due to the existence of another license (if it wasn't the GPL, it would have been something else, so this is not an anti-GPL rant) and that's just how the cookie crumbles. I really do think microkernel is the way to go, and I also do agree that linux is very good in spite of a legacy architecture.