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Well, it looks like one, anyway, LOL!
The final test hop of their Starhopper craft flew to about 500 feet today, successfully. It was a test of the new Raptor engine. Enjoy!
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well...... that was cool!
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Wow...... Thanks for posting.
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Reminds me more of Mythbusters making rockets out of exploding water heaters. Ugly sucker, ain't it.
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Elegant it isn't but functional it is.
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What's amazing is how few gross attitude adjustments it has to make, the puffs you can see.
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Wasn't Werner von Braun reputed to have said "give me enough propulsion, and I can fly beer cans"?
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Looks like some of the 1950's scifi movie spaceships.
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How many lines of code are executed to pull that off?
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Pretty cool. They're really getting that chit together.
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Looks like some of the 1950's scifi movie spaceships.
My thoughts exactly. Reminds me of the cheesiest sci-fi movies ever made! Not criticism, just an observation.
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Hugo Gernsback would be proud, and put it on the cover.
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Hovering without rotor blades...
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It's hell on your driveway though.
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It's hell on your driveway though.
THIS ^^^
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One of the coolest things I've seen in awhile.
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