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Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns
mcgrew (sm62704) writes "New Scientist is reporting that John Carmack's 'Armadillo Aerospace' has suffered a large setback in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge after one of its two main rockets crashed and burned. 'During the test, Texel lifted off and hovered without incident, then descended again and touched the ground. But it then rose again unexpectedly and began accelerating upward. "Crap, it's going to fly into the crane, I need to kill it," Carmack recalls thinking. He hit the manual shutdown switch, turning off the vehicle's engine in mid-flight. Texel was about 6 metres above the ground and fell like a stone. One of its fuel tanks broke open when it hit the ground, spewing fuel that ignited and engulfed the vehicle in flames. "It made a fireball that would make any Hollywood movie proud," Carmack says.' No one was hurt in the crash, but the vehicle was destroyed."
I wish you wouldn't criticize people who don't spell "it's" the way you do (or the dictionary does).
People who spell it that way are just smarter than the folks who write dictionaries, IMHO.
Think about it:
Logic path A --> can not = can (erase some letters, put in an apostrophe) t
[therefore] it is = it (erase some letters, put in an apostrophe) s = it's!
Logic path B --> possessive = add apostrophe-s
[therefore] the property pertaining to it = it's!
It really just makes more sense this way, so forget the dictionary already!
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Well, fuck my ass and call me a bitch. I think I just missed the most obvious thing that needed pointing out -- without these drivers, the lander project is clearly doomed.