> Who would want to download and view a 28 MB video of a rocket 
> hovering on the spot (more or less) for 192 seconds. I 
> certainly did!!!.
> 
>         >
> http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2007_05_12/192secondHover.mpg
> 
> John Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace's latest effort.
> This level of performance puts them in the very very real league.
> 
> So impressively consistent it could almost get boring after a 
> few minutes were it not for the slowly eroding concrete base 
> its hovering over providing light relief as it slowly 
> disintegrates and showers the support vehicle in debris.
> 
> 
> 
>         Russell
> 

Pretty darn cool!

Two things struck me:

1. They have invented a pretty good flame thrower / ion beam gun there...
There is very little spread in the "beam" and I would imagine that it would
be quite deadly for a 100 yards or so to anything up to the size of a
platoon.

2. Has anyone done the calculations to see how much fuel it will take to run
that thing up into orbit? And could it, or multiple its, lift that much
fuel?

---
James. (so not a rocket scientist)
 

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