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While I admire what Carmack is doing on a "that's cool" level, what real results have been produced? He has a device that can lift off the ground, move a coupl
by waterlesscloud 17y ago
While I admire what Carmack is doing on a "that's cool" level, what real results have been produced?
He has a device that can lift off the ground, move a couple hundred meters to the side, and land.
That's a long way from a space program.
- JabavuAdams 17y agoActually, that's all you need to do all kinds of interesting sub-orbital work. They've been flying to much higher altitudes, recently. There are a lot of subtleties in liquid-fuel rocket engines. Simply getting them to ignite reliably and to re-start were seen as a Big Deal, only a few years ago.
- colinake 17y agoIt's reusable - something the government hasn't been able to produce. There are a lot of applications - vertical takeoff and landing testbed, acceleration of Technology Readiness Levels, microgravity research, upper atmospheric research, heliophysic observation, etc. It's not a "space program," but vehicles like ours and John's have a very real market.