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Orval Fairbairn wrote:
> In article <MMk0f.439520$xm3.345436@attbi_s21>,
> John Ousterhout <juliet-oscar-hotel-november@ousterhout.net> wrote:
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>>When I saw this I thought it was the craziest thing I have seen since the
>>Moller Skycar: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9572408/
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>>When I saw THIS it confirmed my opinion:
>>http://www.rocketracingleague.com/company_leadership-team.html
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>>- John Ousterhout -
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> Interesting -- Since rocket motors consume propellant at prodigious
> rates, the actual powered-flight portion of such a race would be quite
> short -- on the order of a couple of minutes max.
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> I think that the whole thing would prove to be pretty much a non-event.
Or it might appeal to people with that attention span. Hey, drag
races are 5-10 seconds long, there's lotsa money in that... maybe a
bad example, half the entertainment is when somebody's engine blows
up... sorry I brought it up. :)
I am gonna go out on a limb and say the appeal to this will be getting
drunk and losing your hearing. :) :)
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Re: Rocket Racing League
