John Carmack crashed his space rocket.

touch me.

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“$35,000 of rocket is now a whole lot of primo Armadillo Droppings,” Carmack reported on their web site. “It’s a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well,” he added.

[lol]

I'll be the first to say it -- he should just stick to making FPSes. [wink]

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The unpiloted vehicle shot up to nearly 600 feet in an August 7 test, but then ran out of fuel

Either that is the SUV of rockets, or gas prices are too high even for Carmack to afford.

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Original post by twix I'll be the first to say it -- he should just stick to making FPSes. [wink]

Paul Allen actually got his into space, who says software developers can't be rocket scientists? We do enought frigging maths anyway!!

Maybe it sprang a leak.

Maybe it tried to do a rocket jump without enough health.

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Maybe it tried to do a rocket jump without enough health.

Hehehe.

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Original post by nick316 Maybe it tried to do a rocket jump without enough health.

Or armor :)
Anyway, I don't view that as a failure. 35K is nothing for them. hell, there are more expensive cars. It is to be expected to have some failures, in the testing stage.

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Original post by pkelly83 Quote: Original post by twix I'll be the first to say it -- he should just stick to making FPSes. [wink] Paul Allen actually got his into space, who says software developers can't be rocket scientists? We do enought frigging maths anyway!!

The difference is that when you do a quick hack in an app, sometimes something breaks and your PC crashes. When you do a quick hack on a rocket ship people die.

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Original post by Ravuya The difference is that when you do a quick hack in an app, sometimes something breaks and your PC crashes. When you do a quick hack on a rocket ship people die.

It's a good thing we have unmanned rockets, then. We can watch them crash in totally cool ways without wondering if we should feel bad about the "people dying" thing.

Anyone else notice that during its short flight it began to turn it's nose toward John Romero's house? I don't think it was intended to fly much more then 600 feet or require enough fuel to reach orbit. It's obviously just a cover for Carmack to develop his own ICBM.

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Original post by Michalson Anyone else notice that during its short flight it began to turn it's nose toward John Romero's house? I don't think it was intended to fly much more then 600 feet or require enough fuel to reach orbit. It's obviously just a cover for Carmack to develop his own ICBM.

So the new question is, can he be blamed?



Marc.

everyone knows all you have to do is figure out how to jump off of air molecules and then even a regular human can jump into space.

that video was almost hillarious.

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Original post by ArchWizard Quote: Original post by Ravuya The difference is that when you do a quick hack in an app, sometimes something breaks and your PC crashes. When you do a quick hack on a rocket ship people die. It's a good thing we have unmanned rockets, then. We can watch them crash in totally cool ways without wondering if we should feel bad about the "people dying" thing.

If it crashed into a crowd of people, would I have to feel guilty for laughing?

If a crowd f people is stupid enough to stay near the launch site, then it would be good, because that would increase the average IQ.
On the other hand, if that rocket would crash into a crowd of people somewhere else, than yes, I guess you should feel guilty of laughing.
BTW, didn't see the movie, but did the rocket explode when it crashed?

It sort of split apart into 2 or 3 big pieces, and several thousands of tinier pieces. One of the big pieces bounced really high and made a nice arc. If only there were a basketball hoop nearby.

[grin][lol] wow. Hehe.
but at least there space starts at 200 km high or so... Gagarin was 320km high .... and 100km it's not quite enough... so i don't agree that 100km high is space.

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Original post by Raduprv BTW, didn't see the movie, but did the rocket explode when it crashed?

No - much as you might expect, since it ran out of fuel.

How does that work, anyway? "Well, let's fire off a $35,000 rocket. 3... 2... 1... LAUNCH! Say, did anyone think to put fuel in it first?"