You may or may not know this, but John Carmack — one of the creators of Doom, Quake and now RAGE — is a pretty full-on rocket enthusiast and actually taught himself aerospace engineering. Now the company he founded himself, Armadillo Aerospace, has built a new reusable suborbital sounding rocket. And it bloody hit 140,000 feet above sea level!
Apparently there were a few dents upon landing, but nothing that can’t be polished up for a second flight. Incredible stuff.
[Refrains from making joke about bugs in RAGE].
Thanks Ausgamers!
TSH
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 3:50 PMRockets are cool.
Slipgates are cooler.
^__^
Jamie
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 3:51 PMYup, that boy is crazy smart. Good on him. :)
Justin
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 3:54 PMImpressive. Love watching stuff like that.
Drew
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 3:55 PMCool, maybe he should spend more time making the games? Just saying.
Marrowmaw
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:07 PMSky Elevator > Rockets.
Marrowmaw
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 4:08 PMSpace*
The Joker
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:27 PMI assume the wind & rocket motor noise went quiet because there was no air left to transmit/conduct the sound?
JACK
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 10:02 PMThis is awesome! Wish I could learn to do that in my physics class.
MD
Friday, December 9, 2011 at 1:51 AM“The Joker” didn’t you hear the sounds when the rocket nose-cone blew off. (3.01)..Plenty of noise up there..(turn up the volume) Just sounds quiet after the rocked finishes firing…
I liked the sound, most videos of space flights don’t have sound… Good to he able to hear as well.