[quote="RobotBastard"]That post blew me away. I can't help but wish this board had more users of your caliber.Well, I figured, why the shell not? I just wanted turret you know how much I appreciated it. We need more posts like that a round here.
I went to collectiondx's Chogokin summit and had a sweet time. I brought home some cool swag too. I even won a Yamato BGC Motoslave. Well, I actually won some Megablox thing but Josh's wife was nice enough to trade the Motoslave for it.
Well, we pretty much made that up as a big "FUCK YOU" to Boeing back in the early 2000s, when the first big tanker scandal showed up. (The whole Darlene Druyun thing.) In fact, if you look with a magnifying glass right at the end, there it is. "We never forget who we're working for. PS hey Boeing, FUCK YOU."
LASER fusion! We're closer to fusion reactors. Although obviously they need to stop using LASER rays and start using GETTER rays. They're getting the right idea by putting a guy with a cool name in charge of the project (Doctor Siegfreid Glenzer).
I think I'm gonna ask my fiancee if we can get married in the UK because we could have a FUCKING TANK LIMOUSINE BABY YEAAAAAAAHHHH oh god i need new underpants now
From the article: "The current concept for powering and cooling the LWSM is to use batteries and a phase-change material that absorbs heat by melting."
Holy CRAP, they're actually going to do "Real Genius!" Too bad it took them twenty-five years to figure it out.
This is a big deal because it's a privately-developed large rocket, and it was successful (reached intended orbit, didn't explode) on its first flight.