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11-03-2009, 12:22 PM
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Caymanian Pirate Code Monkey
 
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Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
2009_09_07_Labor_Day_wiener_cam.wmv
Armadillo Aerospace is a group based out of Mesquite Texas. They were the first to complete Leven 2 of the Lunar Lander X PRIZE Challenge. More pics and video here. John Carmack is the lead software engineer on the team, he is someone in the industry I greatly respect and his stuff is just damn cool. He updates the news on the site and the posts go into quite a bit of technical detail which is always an interesting read.
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11-03-2009, 12:53 PM
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Thanks for the Support!
 
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
sick.
How freaking stable was that ship that won!
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11-03-2009, 01:08 PM
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
Well there is some controversy. The team that won, Masten Space Systems, set down closer to the target spot BUT they were allowed an extra day and that Armadillo didn't get. They were allotted two days, they couldn't get it started on Day 1 and on Day 2 is only did one leg and caught fire:
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11-03-2009, 01:15 PM
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
COOL VIDEOS
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11-03-2009, 01:26 PM
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
Here is Armadillo's flights:
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11-03-2009, 01:33 PM
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
Here's Masten Space Systems successful flight, leg #2.
Looking down at the rocket nozzle is very cool, (this is from the Level 1, not Level 2):
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11-03-2009, 02:09 PM
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Is it summer yet?
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
Very cool!
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11-03-2009, 08:49 PM
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
I'll take two hotdogs, and can you cash that check for me in ones please? So did they win the million dollar X price? Saw this a couple days ago, but did'nt really follow the story.
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11-03-2009, 08:51 PM
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
They got 500K for the hotdog cooker, 2nd place.
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11-04-2009, 06:08 AM
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Hey! Who put the ground there?
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
Cool!
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11-04-2009, 07:03 AM
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Whatchu lookin at?!
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Re: Can Your Grill Hover And Cook a Hotdog?
Love this stuff.
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