Doom III beta testing going very well...

[cock hammer]

While boasting about his Armadillo space project, John Carmack threw in some very interesting tidbits regarding their upcoming game. Slashdot reports:

 

For those of you that are underwhelmed by the 310 pound vehicle, do note that the big vehicle (1500 lbs) that can actually carry people is also flying. Look back in the Armadillo updates around April 19 for testing video. We have since reworked the propulsion system to follow what has worked so well on the subscale vehicle, and should be testing it this weekend. If it works well, we will be repeating the boosted hop with the big vehicle next week.

 

The flight time is currently limited by federal law to 15 seconds of rocket burn time. We have a waiver coming to extend that to 120 seconds, but beyond that we will need a full launch license.

 

The significance of all this is that the vehicles are intended to fly up, come back down and land right where they took off from, all without ablating, expending, or separating anything. It should be possible to have turn around times under one hour even for quite large vehicles.

 

BTW, Doom beta testing is going very well.

 

John Carmack

 

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=111496...ead&cid=9461296

 

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[LarsP]

haha. Du må bare elske den mannen der! John 4 prez!

[siDDis]

han har aldri tatt udanning og er allerede ein super rakett ingeniør

[genesis]

Armadillo space project

 

wOOT?!

 

noen som kan forklare meg litt?

det er bare en quote på den linken, tror jeg trenger litt mer bac.info

 

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danke für gOte link

Endret 22. juni 2004 av genesis

[Goldfish]

wOOT?!

 

noen som kan forklare meg litt?

det er bare en quote på den linken, tror jeg trenger litt mer bac.info

Her er siden deres. Har stått en del om konkurransen i Dagbladet i det siste.

[Mala]

Hmm vel å bra det ja Gleder meg sinnsykt til Doom3 ligger i postkasse mi azzå