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John Carmack's Test Liftoff a Success

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the skyrockets-in-flight dept.

brainstyle writes "Space.com is reporting that John Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace (and who apparently has some game design hobby) has had a successful launch of the prototype of its entry in the X-Prize. From the article: 'I had tried several algorithms on the simulator before settling on this one, and it behaved exactly the same in reality, which is always a pleasant surprise.'"

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  1. Re:But can we use it as a weapon in DOOM3 ? by Deternal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on, Kerry aint that bad, getting a new us president will "just" ruin any chance of getting the isreal palestine thing on track again (somehow us presidents can only work seriously on this in their second period...).

    Of course 8 more years of that wont be unsettling for the world balance....

    Or did you mean the other guy?