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XCOR Launch Application Complete
Kulic writes "SpaceDaily.com is reporting that XCOR, a competitor for the X-Prize has had their launch application deemed 'sufficiently complete' by the Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation. This significant regulatory milestone means that AST has committed itself either to issue a launch license to XCOR within 180 days or notify Congress that it failed to do so."
More like GayCOR if you ask me.
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Suck it long and hard.
When do tickets go on sale?
Okay, so maybe we can't just buy our way into space YET, but this certainly seems to help get us that much closer. Maybe I won't need the engineering degree and military career after all.
Damon,
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Sorry man, YOU FAIL IT~!1
say hi to zefram cochrane for me ;>
...Federal Aviation Administration's Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
Now that's what I call a job title. But are we setting a dangerous precedent here with regard to FAA authority? Do they have full authority of all known space farther than 6370km from Earth's core?
who are those slashdot people? they swept over like Mongol-Tartars.
...and catch up to these guys.
John Carmack has failed!
Damn, just like when I fucked your mom in the pooper last night, I was third in line for that, too.
XCOR doesn't like X-Prize so they got the FAAAA for CST to AOK their design? So AST is stuck with XCOR or Congress with a 180?
Clear as mud.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
I know it is against slashdot policy to remove posts, but cant the admins draw the line at homophobic, redneck posts? these posts can be quite offensive to some, even those of us not gay or black.
The only coverage I ever saw of the X-prize was on National Geographic of all places.
I for one welcome our new XCOR overlords.
Sorry, I had to do it.
Sig & Below
Yuck Fou
I've seen tons of converage on all of the various Discovery channels as well. We get news crews coming through here about once every two weeks at this point. There are a lot of stories about it, many of them are in the international media as well. Also remember, XCOR is not an X-Prize competitor. The time frame and vehicle specification does not currently mesh with our program.
--Mike
Here's Tyreth. Tyreth is a Christian Fundamentalist troll that has dumped his retarded junk on many threads for a while now. His specialty is talkshitting about the evolution theory and spitting half-baked syllogisms about creationism.
His clever flaming and trolling accomplishments are dearly appreciated among the Slashdot trolling community, and he has been given a Trollback award for the month of October for this flamebait.
So, if you care about quality discussion on Slashdot, please put Tyreth on your Foes list and regularly mod him down. Thank you for your attention, and sorry for this offtopic message.
Suck it Slashfags
In other news, several test subjects have been volunteered by the technology industry, including a few SCO executives and a certain "Cary Sherman" from the RIAA...
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Yuck Fou
Allow me to repeat something that was said a couple of days ago (but not by me) :
If you don't understand a comment, don't moderate it.
Can't find examples of evolution? No matter, neither could Dawkins
Lets talk about Jon Carmack. Jon is the legendary programmer of such classic PC games as Wolfenstein, Doom, Duke nukem 3d, Quake 1, 2, and 3, unreal, and the upcoming doom3. Jon has single handedly created the genre known as the first-person-shooter. He has also popularized the Direct3d 3d format over Microsoft's competing Opengl format, as well as caused public interest in 3d cards when he first released accelerated quake for the s3 virge chipset. Jon carmack has redefined gaming on PC's.
Now stop for a moment and think, What would have happened if Albert Einstein had worked creating amazing pinball games instead of creating the theory of relativity? Humanity would suffer! Jon carmack is unfortunately doing JUST THIS, using his gifts at computer coding to create games instead of furthering the knowledge of humanity. Carmack could have been working for NASA or the US military, but instead he simply sits around coding violent computer games.
Is this a waste of a special and rare talent? Sadly, the answer is yes.
Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Not only is Jon carmack not contributing to society, he is causing it's downfall. What was the main reason for the mass murder of dozens of people in columbine? Doom. It's always the same story: Troubled youth plays doom or quake, he arms himself to the teeth, he kills his classmates. This has happened hundreds of times in the US alone. Carmack is not only wasting his talents and intelligence; he is single-handedly causing the deaths of many young men and women. How does he sleep at night?
Carmack is a classic example of a very talented and intelligent human being that is bent on total world destruction. Incredibly, he has made millions of dollars getting people hooked on psychotic games where they compete on the internet to see who can dismember the most people. I believe there is something morally wrong when millions of people have computerized murder fantasies, and we have Jon Carmack to thank. Carmack has used his superior intellect to create mayhem in society. Many people play games such as quake so much that their minds are permanently warped. A cousin of mine has been in therapy for 6 months after he lost a 'death match' and became catatonic.
It is unfortunate that most people do not realize how much this man has damaged all the things we have worked hard for in America. Jon has wasted his intelligence, caused the deaths of innocent children, and warped this country forever. To top it off, he got rich in the process and is revered by millions of computer users worldwide. Perhaps one day the US government will see the light and confine Jon Carmack somewhere with no computers so he can no longer use his intelligence to wreak havoc on society.
I'm not Seth.
I mean, what's Slashdot without an obgligatory Star Trek reference?!
"...Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam..."
it seems to me that this has been tried so many times before. I really hope this works, and if it does it may bring affordable spaceflight to the masses within a few decades. but I'm not holding my breath.
Ads? What ads?
After looking at the X-Prize site, it doesnt seem that these guys are even official contenders for the X-Prize. Also, by "sufficiently complete", they mean that the application for a launch contains most of the necessary info, not that their design or some such is sufficient.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours-Stephen Roberts
As long as you're using rockets and not transporter beams or beanstalks, you have to fly through the air to get to orbit. That's the FAA's baliwick.
The FAA had its roots in the Air Commerce Act of 1926, a year before Lindberg's transatlantic flight. The Air Commerce Act created a series of agencies whose whole point was promoting safe air commerce. Emphasis on commerce. 45 years after the act was passed, you could fly just about anywhere in the world on a jet. That's what I call success, and this is lineage of agencies to talk to if you want to start selling tickets to orbit. Heaven forbid you should talk to NASA, which has been around for 45 years, thinks they own space itself, and distains commerce.
So they have a license to launch something they haven't built or even finished designing? I think my money is still on Burt Rutan.
In a time when so many people within and outside of the US are saying we've lost our technilogical edge this is welcome news. The X prize is about re-estiblashing America's dominance. We've lost our manufacturing might but damn it if we'll lose our technological superiority.
People say that you can judge a society by its prisonners. I think that you can judge a board by its trolls. Here, you don't even have to read them most of the time with the pretty good moderation system. But if they can post, so can anyone post anything. I'd rather rather have a little gnaa and a lot of freedom*.
* from "a little Jerry for a lot of Elaine" Newman and Jerry Seinfeld scene in my head.
Sorry pal, maybe you could make me a sandwich now? But don't bite it, no matter how tempted you might get.
Implying you're from XCOR?
I just wanted to say I think it's awesome that XCOR has a presence here and has you participating in these conversations!
It's good to see meaningful info on /.
Yes. Our sound level meter goes off the scale of 138 dBA at 10 meters. However, during test flights people on the ground have noted that it is quieter than many jet aircraft they have heard.
oh... really? have these people on the ground checked their hearing after long-term exposure to whatever noise that's abusing their ears???
the BEST earmuffs do a -29dB cut, and that means even wearing that, the grount crew can expect over 109dB (since we don't know how much, it's off the scale right?) exposure...
even wearing earplugs AND a earmuff, you still are pushing ~ >79dB - and earplug + muff doesn't actually give you -60dB.
besides... the ratings are only at certain frequencies; some -29dB muffs are as ineffective as -16dB only for lower frequencies.
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"SpaceDaily.com is reporting that XCOR, a competitor for the X-Prize..."
If it _isn't_ a competitor for the X-Prize as you say, shouldn't you be shouting this out and clarifying this article and that news site?
zefram cochrane invented warp technology in the star trek timeline, and was an ameture cosmonaut in a time when not too much else was going on, much like this /. article.
Sorry pal. You are the failed. Sandwich? You make it, I'll eat it.
What XCOR is doing is very interesting, and I wish them every success. I was there for the unveiling of their rocket technology in Mojave, CA. when they flew the rockets (actually for the second time) on a Long-Ez. You can see my writeup of it here (at the risk of a slight Slashdotting).
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XCOR is developing a commercial suborbital "space tourism" vehicle callex Xerus.
Yes, there are a couple of X's in the previous sentence but X-prize is not one of them. XCOR is not running for the X-prize. The Xerus mission profile is, however, similar to that of the X-Prize.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
XCOR isn't shooting for the X-prize, so there's nothing to bet about here. They seem to be following a longer-term strategy, aiming at markets with far greater value than the X-prize purse. That is probably why XCOR has been much more serious than the X-Prize teams about getting their regulatory ducks in line.
Regarding capability, Rutan hasn't built a rocket plane that's taken off and landed multiple times under its own rocket power. XCOR has, a couple years ago. Admittedly, they did it by modifying a Rutan kit plane of late 70's vintage. But the astonishing thing is XCOR achieved winged flight with two full-scale liquid rockets at something like 1/20 Rutan's rumored budget for SpaceShip One, which itself is slated to use a simpler composite rocket. Also note that XCOR's EZ Rocket was approved for use at an air show. Successful regulatory legwork, again. Tech is only half the battle when your real prize is taking the lead in a new industry.
Ugh...
I was moderating some posts on this discussion. I saw the "zefram cochrane" post, which had been modded as "Offtopic." While I am not a big fan of Star Trek, I thought the moderation was unfair. I considered moderating the comment as "Underrated," but instead opted for "Funny."
Unfortunately, when I submitted my moderations and saw the result, my moderation of this little joke appeared as "Flamebait," which it clearly is not. I immediately sent an e-mail to CmdrTaco admitting that I mis-moderated this post and asking him to correct the mistake, if there is a way.
I am almost sure it was the stupid scrolling wheel in my mouse that changed the selection in the moderation pulldown without me noticing. My finger probably brushed lightly against it, pushing the selection from "Funny" to "Flamebait." I will watch this more carefully if I ever get mod points again.
That said, I will respond to "fuzza," who said "If you don't understand a comment, don't moderate it," in the following way: "if you don't know what happened, don't talk like you do."
I understood the comment perfectly (despite thinking most "Star Drek" movies and TV shows are really lame), and even tried to correct what I, like fuzza, had perceived as an unfair mod-down of a joke. Besides that, I even sent an e-mail to Taco saying I am a dumbass and asking him to correct the mistake I made, if possible.
Hmmm...haven't dealt with Journalism Majors much, have you?
Is it fascism yet?
There were stories about the X-Prize but only the major ones (like the announcement, overview of the contest, etc). I don't think anyone covers the individual teams and their accomplishments. I think that is fine (who, other than fans, want to see stories about approval of team, etc?) As long as the major stories (eg. actual launch, etc)are covered, I'm cool...
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Why do the RENDERINGS of the XCOR look like a cool 21st century space vehicle, but the actual PHOTOGRAPHS of the finished products look like a John Denver special with a CO2 canister hanging off it's belly?
The Xcor faq answers a lot of questions but skips the most important one. How much will it cost to develop the Xerus?
This morning, due to all the attention, our chief engineer noticed that 138 dB is actually a typo, it's 128 dB. And we do know where it goes off the scale, it's right at that 10 meter mark.
:)
And for runs longer than 10 seconds, both headphones and earplugs are required if you are that close. And there are indeed many good reasons to be that close when it runs. We've had thousands of runs with not a single explosion, but we're not stupid - there is a transparent blast shield made out of several layers of ultra-thick bulletproof bank teller glass, and when we're looking at the engine while its running, it's through the glass.
--Mike
Can anyone point me to a link that helps explain the difficulties in creating an "airplane" that travels into space? I've honestly tried to find a concise explanation of the issues, but have come up short. Thanks in advance.