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Wow. I didn't know about this letter. It's very inspiring.

Exactly. People in this place. Sigh.

Aw. It didn't even do a "real" hop. The engines stayed on all the time. For the first real hop see Xombie circa 2010.

Huh? Caltech/Stanford? These are two different tech scenes.

This is correct. Thanks for pointing it out. Even Daniel Kahneman admitted it.

I'm just going off the article. Did you read it?

Riiight

That's an interesting take. I read the article and it sounds like the US invented modern shipbuilding during WW2, and the Japanese just copied it and ran with it. But ok.

Exactly. I know him and like him. He is a genius programmer for sure BUT people forget that the last successful product that he released was Doom 3 over 20 years ago. Armadillo was…

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Who? I can't find the source, and it seems everybody knows about it. EDIT: Oh, it's the book itself. But what is _their_ source?

As a rocket scientist I assure you it's been tried

For a blast from the past https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/lang/borland/pascal/3.02...

At least until 3 which is what I used.

Oh the memories! You are exactly right. I remember this as well.