How the hell can you hate The Big Lebowski? It's probably one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. Hell, I still drink White Russians to this day because of that movie.
No. The Only video available is of the 48" wide with large aluminum cone vechicle produced by Armidillo.
The vechicle HAS NO CHUTE, it is intended to land under power. Which it has demostrated mutliple times. (See The armidillo history archive.)
The pressue vessle had 200 PSI of nitrogen left in it which punted the tank 200 yards when it busted open on impact.
Yeah, I think that's a fair statement. You can tell that John isn't a trained electrical or mechancle engineer.
He knows what he wants to biuld, but doesn't nesicarily have the experience that years of school in the field would provide.
I agree about a fuel level feedback. That should have been in thier from the begining.
They are just at the stages of getting this stuff to work. I also get the feeling that they get so damn overwhelmed by the pressure of the moment that they do things that aren't always that wise. (I.E. We just drove 100 miles to get here, and I have to go do my real job in the morning, and I want to do SOMETHING without having to go home with nothing to show for the whole weekends work.)
Actually what Armadillo is doing is far more complicated than the design that scaled composites is using.
SC is taking thoroughly engineered airplane concepts and strapping a rocket engine to it. They have no autonomous vehicle control system, a pilot is the control. It's all down to aerodynamics and piloting, concepts that are very well understood at this point in their development.. Their engine was designed by an outside firm to their specs and paid well for it.
Armadillo has come up with a new engine chemistry and by engineering and trial and error to the point where they now have a engine that can run with a single propellant, that is easily obtained and cheap. They can use a single pressure vessel to hold the propellant, and with their current engine design is hypergolic (self igniting). They have also successfully designed a built a computer system capable of vertical take off and landing and all the balancing and control issues implied with it. Both of these are infant technologies and Carmack and crew should be congratulated on developing a lot of new technologies and pioneering new ground. The only thing that even comes close to complexity of the control system they have is the now mothballed Delta Clipper launch system.
While I fully support Burt Rutan and the Scaled Composites effort, and expertise in implementation of their chosen design, I have to give Props to Carmack and crew for doing more new engineering and pioneering. What they are doing really is cutting edge work.
Yeah, I'm not saying it's not dangerous. It certainly is. I guess somehow I think that makes it worth doing.
I am sorry about the loss of your friend, sounds like he was a good guy.
If you don't want to the take risk, don't go.
It's not like they are con'ing people into getting into the things against thier will, or without knowledge of what they are doing.
In fact only Burt Ruttan's White Knight has flown with a human pilot. Burt has been biulding experimental for decades. They haven't killed anyone yet. (Well there was also that 2 foot high hover Carmack's team did, if you want to count it.)
People's lives are there own, and it's none of your business telling them how to lead them, or what risks they should be allowed to take of thier own free will.
No matter how many laws you pass, or what kind of am armored bunker you live in, your're still going to die, and nothing's going to change that.
Me, I'd much rather be known as the crzazy jerk who strapped himself to a homebult rocket and turned himself into a road pizza at age 25 than the shutaway that died on the couch at home eating cheatos and watching Mattlock at age 75.
Yet they are still massively inferior to computers for gaming.
Bad resolution. Terrible controls. Little or no configuration.
I've owned, NES, a PS1, and PS2, played with friends X-Box's. I own less than 6 games for any of the consoles. I can promise you that I will never again waste my money on a console based system.
The lack of keyboard limits the complexity of any game. The lack of a mouse limits the finesse and speed of physical control. The limited resolution makes the games just plane ugly.
I know this is religious war type ground, but after having played both consoles and computers I just don't get why anyone would opt for a console. I know that I may be in the minority at this point, but I honestly don't understand why so many people are making the choices they have.
The architecture of a gaming system is fixed and normally surpassed in all ways by PC's within a few weeks of their release.
What's your PHD in? Basket Weaving?
I don't know what planet everyone else is living on, but the PhD's I know all live and work in the US and make over $200k a year. Of course not one of them has a degree in archeology, or Marine Biology. No, they have degrees in medicine or engineering. They design new integrated circuits or read MRI scans for a living.
The company I work for builds SAN/WAN networking gear. The senior programmers and engineers who design the networking protocols we use all make over $150k. You better have a PhD in Comp Sci, or 20 years of experience before even thinking about applying for those jobs, and they are always hiring. Always.
If you're an entry to mid level engineer you can nab a starting job of about $45k to $50k.
If you have a MBA you might make $150k a year, I wouldn't know, I don't hang out with those kinds of people.
However, if you got your degree in Underwater Basket Weaving you can line up and flip burgers with the rest of the kids.
Na,
If it ever gets that bad there will be a clear market opening for generic open PCs, and it will be filled.
If we do things right, we can make sure windows doesn't rubn on it.
The Enterprise shuttle never went into space. It was a enginnering test vechicle.
They did glide it down from a 747 a few times, but it never flew under it's own power.
OK, so that's 13 events a year that this might be happening.
An average of 80 people a YEAR get hit by lightning. (Source http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm) AHHHH!!! Quick! I better biuld a bunker and live underground and never go outside! AHHHH! Wait! what if the roof falls in! AHHH! HELP!
F'ing joyless safety natzi's, go out to a bar, get drunk, smoke a pack of cig's, pick up some girl and take her home for the night.
You might die of alcohol posioning, cancer, or AIDS, but at least you'll have had some fun before you die. Your going to die sooner or later anyway, might as well have a good time before you do.
Did you even read the article? It said "multiple rockets".
quote from grumman's site....
"In tests at the White Sands Missile Range, the Northrop Grumman-built MTHEL, jointly developed by the U.S. Army and the Israel Ministry of Defense, has shot down 25 Katyusha rockets, singly and in salvos. "
Cool house, energy storage idea, but...
It's hard to take seriously a professor who doesn't even know what the air is made of...
""Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the atmosphere. I believe it is the fuel of the future," said Kamaruzzaman."
Uh, no it isn't. The atmosphere is %60 Nitrogen, %18 Oxygen, and the rest is Carbon Dioxide and trace gases.
Only after the stored hydrogen in the tanks is depleted. Normally it generates electricity during the night with a hydrogen powered fuel cell. If you have a lot of overcast days, or are a heavy electricty user you might have to take power from the grid.
1. L337 speak was never cool then, and it still isn't now. We make fun of you behind your back and to your face all the time.
2. You really want to paint a giant target for abuse on your child so you can be cute? My, what a thoughtful, careing person you must be. Have you considered getting a vasectomy?
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How the hell can you hate The Big Lebowski? It's probably one of the funniest movies I've seen in years. Hell, I still drink White Russians to this day because of that movie.
No. The Only video available is of the 48" wide with large aluminum cone vechicle produced by Armidillo. The vechicle HAS NO CHUTE, it is intended to land under power. Which it has demostrated mutliple times. (See The armidillo history archive.) The pressue vessle had 200 PSI of nitrogen left in it which punted the tank 200 yards when it busted open on impact.
There is no chute. It's supposed to land verticly under it's own power, which it has multiple times. It just ran out out of fuel before it could land.
There was no one in the rocket, it's computer controlled.
Yeah, I think that's a fair statement. You can tell that John isn't a trained electrical or mechancle engineer. He knows what he wants to biuld, but doesn't nesicarily have the experience that years of school in the field would provide. I agree about a fuel level feedback. That should have been in thier from the begining. They are just at the stages of getting this stuff to work. I also get the feeling that they get so damn overwhelmed by the pressure of the moment that they do things that aren't always that wise. (I.E. We just drove 100 miles to get here, and I have to go do my real job in the morning, and I want to do SOMETHING without having to go home with nothing to show for the whole weekends work.)
Actually what Armadillo is doing is far more complicated than the design that scaled composites is using.
SC is taking thoroughly engineered airplane concepts and strapping a rocket engine to it. They have no autonomous vehicle control system, a pilot is the control. It's all down to aerodynamics and piloting, concepts that are very well understood at this point in their development.. Their engine was designed by an outside firm to their specs and paid well for it.
Armadillo has come up with a new engine chemistry and by engineering and trial and error to the point where they now have a engine that can run with a single propellant, that is easily obtained and cheap. They can use a single pressure vessel to hold the propellant, and with their current engine design is hypergolic (self igniting). They have also successfully designed a built a computer system capable of vertical take off and landing and all the balancing and control issues implied with it. Both of these are infant technologies and Carmack and crew should be congratulated on developing a lot of new technologies and pioneering new ground. The only thing that even comes close to complexity of the control system they have is the now mothballed Delta Clipper launch system.
While I fully support Burt Rutan and the Scaled Composites effort, and expertise in implementation of their chosen design, I have to give Props to Carmack and crew for doing more new engineering and pioneering. What they are doing really is cutting edge work.
Yeah, I'm not saying it's not dangerous. It certainly is. I guess somehow I think that makes it worth doing. I am sorry about the loss of your friend, sounds like he was a good guy.
If you don't want to the take risk, don't go. It's not like they are con'ing people into getting into the things against thier will, or without knowledge of what they are doing. In fact only Burt Ruttan's White Knight has flown with a human pilot. Burt has been biulding experimental for decades. They haven't killed anyone yet. (Well there was also that 2 foot high hover Carmack's team did, if you want to count it.) People's lives are there own, and it's none of your business telling them how to lead them, or what risks they should be allowed to take of thier own free will. No matter how many laws you pass, or what kind of am armored bunker you live in, your're still going to die, and nothing's going to change that. Me, I'd much rather be known as the crzazy jerk who strapped himself to a homebult rocket and turned himself into a road pizza at age 25 than the shutaway that died on the couch at home eating cheatos and watching Mattlock at age 75.
Dude.... The sub title here is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." You are defiently at the wrong table.
Read the post.
The guy wants to use it to backup images of his CD's & DVD's.
Sounds like a fun project to me.
Damn, you are a grumpy bastard.
What a load of crap. Using drugs is a sign of wanting to have a good time and not giving a crap what narrow minded people think.
Stop trying to make things deeper than they are.
Drugs are fun. People like to do things that are fun.
If I want to do something that fun, and it doesn't hurt anyone else, then that my business, not yours, and not the governments.
Was there a point here?
Yet they are still massively inferior to computers for gaming.
Bad resolution. Terrible controls. Little or no configuration.
I've owned, NES, a PS1, and PS2, played with friends X-Box's. I own less than 6 games for any of the consoles. I can promise you that I will never again waste my money on a console based system.
The lack of keyboard limits the complexity of any game. The lack of a mouse limits the finesse and speed of physical control. The limited resolution makes the games just plane ugly.
I know this is religious war type ground, but after having played both consoles and computers I just don't get why anyone would opt for a console. I know that I may be in the minority at this point, but I honestly don't understand why so many people are making the choices they have.
The architecture of a gaming system is fixed and normally surpassed in all ways by PC's within a few weeks of their release.
Congradulations. You have just posted the dumbest post this week!
What's your PHD in? Basket Weaving? I don't know what planet everyone else is living on, but the PhD's I know all live and work in the US and make over $200k a year. Of course not one of them has a degree in archeology, or Marine Biology. No, they have degrees in medicine or engineering. They design new integrated circuits or read MRI scans for a living. The company I work for builds SAN/WAN networking gear. The senior programmers and engineers who design the networking protocols we use all make over $150k. You better have a PhD in Comp Sci, or 20 years of experience before even thinking about applying for those jobs, and they are always hiring. Always. If you're an entry to mid level engineer you can nab a starting job of about $45k to $50k. If you have a MBA you might make $150k a year, I wouldn't know, I don't hang out with those kinds of people. However, if you got your degree in Underwater Basket Weaving you can line up and flip burgers with the rest of the kids.
Na, If it ever gets that bad there will be a clear market opening for generic open PCs, and it will be filled. If we do things right, we can make sure windows doesn't rubn on it.
Wow, pissed off an stupid at the same time. Bad combo.
The "Dollar a ton" quote comes right out of the article, not the first posters ass.
Seriously, switch to decafe.
The Enterprise shuttle never went into space. It was a enginnering test vechicle. They did glide it down from a 747 a few times, but it never flew under it's own power.
OK, so that's 13 events a year that this might be happening.
An average of 80 people a YEAR get hit by lightning.
(Source http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/medical.htm)
AHHHH!!! Quick! I better biuld a bunker and live underground and never go outside! AHHHH! Wait! what if the roof falls in! AHHH! HELP!
F'ing joyless safety natzi's, go out to a bar, get drunk, smoke a pack of cig's, pick up some girl and take her home for the night.
You might die of alcohol posioning, cancer, or AIDS, but at least you'll have had some fun before you die. Your going to die sooner or later anyway, might as well have a good time before you do.
Did you even read the article? It said "multiple rockets". quote from grumman's site.... "In tests at the White Sands Missile Range, the Northrop Grumman-built MTHEL, jointly developed by the U.S. Army and the Israel Ministry of Defense, has shot down 25 Katyusha rockets, singly and in salvos. "
Yeah... go to google, type in "laser turntable".. There are 43,700 hits, and a whole page of ads selling them. The entry level ones are $99.
Cool house, energy storage idea, but... It's hard to take seriously a professor who doesn't even know what the air is made of... ""Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the atmosphere. I believe it is the fuel of the future," said Kamaruzzaman." Uh, no it isn't. The atmosphere is %60 Nitrogen, %18 Oxygen, and the rest is Carbon Dioxide and trace gases.
Only after the stored hydrogen in the tanks is depleted. Normally it generates electricity during the night with a hydrogen powered fuel cell. If you have a lot of overcast days, or are a heavy electricty user you might have to take power from the grid.
1. L337 speak was never cool then, and it still isn't now. We make fun of you behind your back and to your face all the time. 2. You really want to paint a giant target for abuse on your child so you can be cute? My, what a thoughtful, careing person you must be. Have you considered getting a vasectomy?
The ones near me still have three rows of PC's games, and one row of PS2 games, and one of Xbox.