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Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: SirBruce on August 11, 2004, 01:25:32 PM This was just a test flight, but the failure was rather spectacular:
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2004_08_08/48InchCrash.mpg For the full story: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=272 Bruce Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: personman on August 11, 2004, 03:47:01 PM "It's a good thing Doom3 is selling well."
Heh. Well not like he bought Russian space junk on the dark side of the moon. Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: geldonyetich on August 11, 2004, 07:58:43 PM Proof that while you don't have to be a rocket scientist to design cutting edge new 3D engines, it doesn't hurt.
Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: TripleDES on August 12, 2004, 04:03:50 AM Uh, X-Prize? As in manned tourist space flights?
The last thing I'd do would be setting foot in a rocket propelled egg. White Knight = Impressive. Carmack's "Egg" = Bullshit. Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: Alluvian on August 12, 2004, 07:04:35 AM I got the site to load once for me to read the linked story, but after that I have not gotten anything out of it. So I really have little idea about any of this other than the fact that carmack has apparently made a rocketshipthingy that crashed because it had no fuel guage. It would be interesting to read more about it if the site would load again.
The fuel decisions were interesting for sure. Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: SirBruce on August 12, 2004, 08:59:04 AM Works for me now... maybe they had some web site trouble?
Bruce Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: Arcadian Del Sol on August 12, 2004, 09:41:34 AM for those that couldn't load the site, I found the following diagram of the test:
(http://www.estesrockets.com/images/flightprofile.gif) except the landing was more like dropping a plastic cup with a lacrosse ball in it. Title: Re: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: schild on August 12, 2004, 09:43:25 AM Quote from: SirBruce This was just a test flight, but the failure was rather spectacular: http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2004_08_08/48InchCrash.mpg That is a thing of beauty. Title: John Carmack's X-Prize Entry Falls Short Post by: Arcadian Del Sol on August 12, 2004, 09:48:21 AM (http://www.aia-aerospace.org/images/rc_up.jpg)
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