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1 Amateur Rocket Crashes, Another Explodes
prostoalex writes "A 23-foot-long space rocket carrying 3 dummies exploded in the Pacific Northwest after reaching about 200 feet. The team was competing for Ansari X Prize, offering $10 million to the team that successfully completes a low-budget private space rocket capable of carrying men into space. Google News offers more perspectives into the event, the team is saying the rocket, whose parachute malfunctioned, would have to be rebuilt." And AmiNTT writes "Everygeek's favorite rocketeers over at Armadillo Aerospace have suffered a fairly serious setback over the weekend - the crash of their 48-inch vehicle link in a test hop at their 100 acre test field. Of course there is video and pictures - 2 3...
This setback should keep them from flying for about five weeks, but will give them a chance to make some design changes. I'm sure they will be back better than ever.
(Armadillo have shown up on Slashdot many times in the past.)"
It seems that nobody pays any attention to the dummies, they are the real victims here, but nobody cares.
What kind of world are we living? I say it's end of the world when we stop carying for dummies.
to the Union Aerospace Corporation...
Fortunately for us, the three dummies were Bush, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft.
Will North Korea be allowed to enter?
I said the same thing -- the puffs from the flying tank look just like a bad particle system that dropped points far too sparsely. Strange.
John Carmack