God speed you Playmonaut! You brave, brave little man.
[salutes]
Our heroic Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Playmonaut has just jetted off to Blighty to join the Southampton University postgrads who are tackling the design of the Vulture 2 spaceplane. Click here for a bigger version of the LOHAN graphic The veteran pilot, who soared to international fame with our Paper Aircraft …
Err, you obviously haven't seen its Operating Systems Virtual Software Operation, ql. Right Royal Evidence there of True Amateurs with Novel HyperRadioProActive Source CodeXSSXXXX Facilities.
Does the El Reg Special Projects Bureau have a Virtual Reality Super Sub Division for AIMissions with Participatory Commentary Drive ...... Phished and Phormed Power for NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive IT ProgramMING?
Which is akin to Source Enrichment for Power Output with Remote Virtual Control.
Or would that render El Reg an Operating System in an Alternate Reality GIG? :-)
Also, keep in mind they are not testing the rocket itself here, they are testing the igniter performance. If it can light a smaller candle, it can light the bigger one too. (assuming it's the same fuel mixture, but that seems to be taken care off.
Still, I'm mighty curious to some of the questions and conundrums postulated in the LOHAN forums.
KM/H? Metres?
When you finally take the wraps off your measurements, can't you do things properly and give us the figures in proper units that we can all understand? I believe that we have an understanding that "linguine" and "% velocity of a sheep in a vacuum" are our standard preferences?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html