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    John Carmack (Doom, Quake) joins the space race

    Good old John C, always up to something

    The below video is of his Armadillo Aerospace "Pixel", his entry in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. LLC is funded by NASA's Centennial Challenges program and run during each years X-PRIZE Cup.

    The goal is to take off, hover, climb, translate horizontally a specified distance to another pad, hover, descend, hover and land then repeat in the opposite direction in a 150 minute time period. Top prize will be $1 million and the possibility of their design being used.

    Looks like he has the basics licked.

    Video....
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 5 June 2007, 00:21.
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    wow way cool and extremely stable, now we need a version of it that looks like an X-wing with a bit more thrusters

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      Is that an Nvidia logo on one of the tanks I see? Are they a co-sponser?
      Go Bunny GO!


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      • #4
        why do I feel like pulling out my BFG9000 and blasting that thing out of the air?

        Good for John, for doing something creative with his money.
        Yeah, well I'm gonna build my own lunar space lander! With blackjack aaaaannd Hookers! Actually, forget the space lander, and the blackjack. Ahhhh forget the whole thing!

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        • #5
          Previously more often, but now just about once a month John Carmack, posts a detailed update of what's going on at Armadillo Aerospace. I've been reading it regularly, ever since a post by K6-III pointed me in that direction.

          http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News
          Last edited by SitFlyer; 5 June 2007, 13:39.

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