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Comment At 205 MPH it doesn't matter if it's IC or Thrust (Score 1) 334

by RedDrake (#33761088) Attached to: Jaguar's Hybrid Jet-Powered Concept Car

When things are broken, they're ...well....broken. The safety systems may or may not be affected. I think the issue in this case is that broken at 65 miles per hour is one thing, and broken at 205 miles per hour is something else entirely.

I think if a car that was moving that fast being propelled by four independent motors suddenly found itself being propelled by thrust that was no longer balanced and centered -- I wouldn't want to be down range for quite some distance.

If your going to have a failure at 205 mph, I don't think it matters if your being propelled by unbalanced thrust or a traditional Internal Combustion engine. It's going to be bad.

Comment Re:Put Up Or Shut Up (Score 2, Interesting) 383

by RedDrake (#29899811) Attached to: "Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket

Well, the way I see it the Ares I is all about a heavy lifting body. That's somthing the shuttle really wasn't ever really capeable of. So to that end I'm very happy.

Going back to the moon isn't simply to say we could. We no longer have all the experianced people from the 60's and early 70's who ran the first Apollo missions. If we can't make it back to the moon then there is no reason to try for mars. To do a mars mission properly, we have to make sure we still can make it to the moon.

Between ARES for Lifting and VASMIR for going. We could be looking at very intresting time for exploration.

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