Carmack crashes and burns

[schmosef]

Well his rocket did anyway.

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[K6-III]

He was expecting to lose several vehicles leading up to a successful spaceflight.

This is part of that process.

[Dr Mordrid]

I'm SO disappointed.....NOT!!!!

I'm a Rutan man

Dr. Mordrid

[Greebe]

I'm sorry K6-III but reading that was like envisioning a comedy. He made so many DUMB mistakes it's not funny.

another man with more money than brains



Go Burt Go!

[schmosef]

At least he's enjoying himself.

[GT98]

Originally posted by Greebe

another man with more money than brains

Well defenently not a rocket sci. but sure as hell a good coder

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by Greebe
I'm sorry K6-III but reading that was like envisioning a comedy. He made so many DUMB mistakes it's not funny.

another man with more money than brains



Go Burt Go!

lol he's a pretty smart programmer i'd say lol...

[KvHagedorn]

No burning.. just crashing. Dumb looking design.. no fins even. I woulda built a V2 replica or something. That's what Bugs Bunny did.

[Tjalfe]

you mean like this one :

http://www.canadianarrow.com/

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by Greebe
I'm sorry K6-III but reading that was like envisioning a comedy. He made so many DUMB mistakes it's not funny.

another man with more money than brains

Yeah, DUMB mistakes. What moron he is. You know, because you could build a rocket.

Examples of dumb mistakes?

[Greebe]

Yeah how many here have made a liquid fuel rocket? I have. How many coders have, not a one.

Not paying attention to how much fuel was left while the clock was running was dumb and a wasteful mistake. Testing without a solid data link was another brain cell that misfired.

Just because you can code doesn't make you GOD of all things or even one, stop treating him as such...

Hey ya'll whine when the goody two shoes of Hollywood stick their noses into what goes on in Washington, expect the same when some gameboy with an over inflated ego fails in his attempt.. oh I'm sure he'll eventually succeed if enough money and perseverance is there to see it through.

[Dr Mordrid]

Not if he dissolves into atoms duing one of the test flights

Dr. Mordrid

[K6-III]

Making a liquid rocket is incredibly complicated. While Carmack's use of a mono-propellant simplifies the rocket greatly, it does not make it easy to do by any means. As for lack of experience, he has more experience with building actual hardware than most professional aerospace engineers that work on rocket design.

As for bi-propellant work, that is much more complicated with a necessary design for an injector and usually a requirement for regenerative cooling.

Carmack has chosen to not use fins to reduce drag. The vehicle flies unstable, but is maintained in the proper heading under powered flight via Carmack's software. It is a design tradeoff that could potentially pay off for him. (I don't know that I would go that route)