Carmack was pissed that they took second. The company who got first got an extra day to try, where as Carmack didn't, and it was impossible for him to get another flight permit.
coinspinner:greenz: why are they researching ways to land on the moon if we've already done it in 1969...
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
Angrarulz:coinspinner: greenz: why are they researching ways to land on the moon if we've already done it in 1969...
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
Yeah, my car knowledge isn't that great, my point was that why not try to look for better options, especially with a price tag of $1.65 million. Especially given that they had plenty of problems with the original lunar landers.
Angrarulz:coinspinner: greenz: why are they researching ways to land on the moon if we've already done it in 1969...
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
Manhigh:Angrarulz: coinspinner: greenz: why are they researching ways to land on the moon if we've already done it in 1969...
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
not a bad passer rating, one sack and 1 interception? 15 tds?
Virulency:Manhigh: Angrarulz: coinspinner: greenz: why are they researching ways to land on the moon if we've already done it in 1969...
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
not a bad passer rating, one sack and 1 interception? 15 tds?
Even better if we call it a batting average of .882
Wow, tis sad that we have to be talking about HUMANITY'S MOST EPIC EXPLORATION EVER in terms of sports stats. I hope you are all farking trolls. fark, I wish I was in a god damn space ship now. But no, lazy masses are more interested in watching farking football than space travel (Well, I'll admit a couple of people farting around in LEO or listening to dead air at Mission Control makes for pretty goddamn boring programming... way to suck, NASA TV). shiat, wouldn't football on the moon be so much more badass than in full gravity? Not to mention basketball... 60 foot hoops? Shortsighted society we have here.
Really, we (Americans, at least, as a society) like sports so much, seems odd somebody hasn't done a better job of leveraging that interest to advance development of space. Sure we have DisnESPN and the like using shiattons of satellite bandwidth, but why the hell hasn't somebody gone and started a low-G sports league by now? Guess the investment would be a bit much for a what's currently a non-existent market. If only space travel could attract more glazed-over eyeballs.....
Good Behavior Day:Virulency: Manhigh: Angrarulz: coinspinner: greenz: why are they researching ways to land on the moon if we've already done it in 1969...
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
not a bad passer rating, one sack and 1 interception? 15 tds?
Even better if we call it a batting average of .882
Still room for improvement though, which was my point.
And fusion research says "not very well". Really, if there's going to be a cash cow in space in the next 20 years, 3He is not it. 50, maybe, but even then the real potential is going to be in manufacturing goods and infrastructure for people who actually want to live in space.
But why wait around to develop a containment system for the finicky process of reburning a paltry dusting of solar ash when there's already a far bigger fusion reactor pumping out 400 trillion terawatts into the uncaring universe? With a single square kilometer of mylar (roughly 5 tons depending on thickness) you already have the makings of a gigawatt powerplant.
dr.zaeus
2009-11-03 11:22:34 AM
vudukungfu
2009-11-03 11:23:00 AM
ragnarqk
2009-11-03 11:35:12 AM
panax
2009-11-03 12:12:44 PM
greenz
2009-11-03 12:35:24 PM
coinspinner
2009-11-03 12:49:30 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
Edymnion
2009-11-03 12:50:41 PM
Antimatter
2009-11-03 12:50:59 PM
brainscab
2009-11-03 01:30:49 PM
Maxout623
2009-11-03 01:42:10 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
Hahaha, I remember that car.
Angrarulz
2009-11-03 02:00:13 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
coinspinner
2009-11-03 02:42:31 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
Yeah, my car knowledge isn't that great, my point was that why not try to look for better options, especially with a price tag of $1.65 million. Especially given that they had plenty of problems with the original lunar landers.
Manhigh
2009-11-03 04:21:35 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
Virulency
2009-11-03 04:55:39 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
not a bad passer rating, one sack and 1 interception? 15 tds?
Dicky B
2009-11-03 05:25:13 PM
/hot laaaank
Good Behavior Day
2009-11-03 07:30:02 PM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
not a bad passer rating, one sack and 1 interception? 15 tds?
Even better if we call it a batting average of .882
rdyb
2009-11-04 01:20:27 AM
Really, we (Americans, at least, as a society) like sports so much, seems odd somebody hasn't done a better job of leveraging that interest to advance development of space. Sure we have DisnESPN and the like using shiattons of satellite bandwidth, but why the hell hasn't somebody gone and started a low-G sports league by now? Guess the investment would be a bit much for a what's currently a non-existent market. If only space travel could attract more glazed-over eyeballs.....
Manhigh
2009-11-04 09:20:11 AM
Yeah and why try to make a better car, since we already have the Ford Taurus?
You couldn't have picked a worse comparison. The original Taurus SHO was a great car. Was affordable and had an awesome V6 engine made by Yamaha. Then Ford decided to "make a better car" and the result was crap. SO maybe sticking with a design that led to 11 of 11 successful flights might be a great idea.
11 of 11 successful flights? First off, there were 17 Apollo missions. Apollo 1 was a pad test that ended in the deaths of 3 astronauts. Apollo 13 very nearly ended in the deaths of 3 more save for the heroic actions of a lot of engineers and the astronauts themselves.
So to be fair, call the Apollo Program 15/17.
not a bad passer rating, one sack and 1 interception? 15 tds?
Even better if we call it a batting average of .882
Still room for improvement though, which was my point.
zipdog
2009-11-04 10:41:57 AM
pope183
2009-11-04 06:26:52 PM
strip mining the moon ?
helium 3 says how you doin
rdyb
2009-11-05 03:47:06 AM
And fusion research says "not very well". Really, if there's going to be a cash cow in space in the next 20 years, 3He is not it. 50, maybe, but even then the real potential is going to be in manufacturing goods and infrastructure for people who actually want to live in space.
But why wait around to develop a containment system for the finicky process of reburning a paltry dusting of solar ash when there's already a far bigger fusion reactor pumping out 400 trillion terawatts into the uncaring universe? With a single square kilometer of mylar (roughly 5 tons depending on thickness) you already have the makings of a gigawatt powerplant.
Frank N Stein
2009-11-06 01:54:03 AM