John Carmack is building a rocket?
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rpgking

Looks like John Carmack and a team of people are working on a rocket in an attempt to win the X-Prize($10 million to whoever can make the first privately-made manned spacecraft). I'm surprised John got into Aerospace Engineering, but that seems like his new interest lately. Check out this test launch of a rocket they built:

Now that thing can bounce!

That was one hell of a crash XD. But Mr. Carmack's got plenty of money to spend on making more of these, so it shouldn't be much of a setback. ;)

Here's their main website:

Armadillo Aerospace

Pretty neat stuff.

Posted on 2004-08-17 07:24:43 (last edited on 2004-08-17 07:26:23)

Gayo

Oh, great. vecna is spoogy about him enough as it is!

Posted on 2004-08-17 09:11:37

Tatzen

Ollllld newwwws.

Posted on 2004-08-17 11:03:53

mcgrue

Very old news. Someone here doesn't read slashdot much, apparently... which, for the record, is a good thing.

(not reading slashdot, that is)

Posted on 2004-08-17 15:31:23

loretian

tat's alive!?!

Posted on 2004-08-17 15:56:40

rpgking

Uh, yeah. I haven't read a slashdot article in a while. Anyways, old news to some is still news to others...

Posted on 2004-08-17 16:51:11

Tatzen

Quote:Originally posted by loretian

tat's alive!?!


unfortunately.

Posted on 2004-08-17 19:18:26

mcgrue

Quote:Originally posted by Tatzen

Quote:Originally posted by loretian

tat's alive!?!


unfortunately.


So, how's life in the bottle been, anyways? I always take daytrips there, myself, but I couldn't imagine actually living there. The rent's too high and my liver is too weak.

Posted on 2004-08-17 20:06:56

Kreplyn

Where are we talking about here? What area?

Posted on 2004-08-17 20:44:16

mcgrue

We're talking about alcoholism. The area is generally "face down in some random gutter come morning".

That's what I get for trying to be clever, I guess.

Posted on 2004-08-17 21:24:25

Kreplyn

Heh at least you tried... ;)

Posted on 2004-08-17 21:37:40

loretian

Quote:Originally posted by Tatzen

Quote:Originally posted by loretian

tat's alive!?!


unfortunately.


Grass will make it all better. Or vicodin. Alcohol is bad! Bad bad bad! And delicious.

Posted on 2004-08-17 21:47:08

mcgrue

Vicodin? Geez.

I understand that Pharmaceuticals are drugs and all, but their recreational use just seems so... lame!

I mean, Johnny Depp would never be in a movie named 'Vikes' pushing pills, now would he?

Posted on 2004-08-18 00:30:16

Gayo

I bet vecna can totally get all sorts of drugs now.

Posted on 2004-08-18 02:20:42

mcgrue

'now'? From what I hear... ;D

Posted on 2004-08-18 05:33:20

loretian

If it's good enough for Rush Limbaugh, it's good enough for me.

Posted on 2004-08-18 18:13:08

ThinIce

Only on verge can a person go from building rockets to chemical dependancies...

Posted on 2004-08-29 12:23:06

Khross

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