Slow start on the video....finally got it going....crash is 6 minutes into the video.
Go to the website for the video.
click on the black screen and work on it....I had trouble initially getting it going.
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
08/10/2012 9:28:36 AM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maybe they should have named it “Neo” instead.
3 posted on
08/10/2012 9:28:56 AM PDT by
montag813
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Growing up in the 50s, I got used to our rockets nearly always blowing up, but NASA kept on trying and we landed men on the moon and brought them home safely.
Today's Americans want instant gratification at little cost and they don't have the attention span to focus beyond any failed attempts.
Thanks to the socialist (RAT) takeover of the public schools, we are turning out drones. They have managed to suppress the entrepreneurial genes that our ancestors exploited to come to and succeed in the "New World".
4 posted on
08/10/2012 9:42:29 AM PDT by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
6 posted on
08/10/2012 9:55:02 AM PDT by
BigCinBigD
(...Was that okay?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That is what testing is for. Blowing stuff up so you can fix the design so that it doesn’t blow up.
Probably a good test in NASA’s eyes.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Nasa personnel don’t know how to count down from 10 to 0? The count went from 2 straight to 0 — no wonder the little ‘bot got confused! Fortunately, the stores of pressurized fuel looked to be SEVERAL YARDS away from the blast.
10 posted on
08/10/2012 10:42:05 AM PDT by
LimitedPowers
(Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That’s why you build prototypes.
11 posted on
08/10/2012 10:43:07 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(FUJR (not you, Jim))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why couldn't they have kept the tether on it, and as it rose 10 feet or so, the crane could've kept it from contacting the ground? They could've just cut the engines and let it fall only the length of the tether. Damage, yes, but not catastrophe.
HF
12 posted on
08/10/2012 10:50:24 AM PDT by
holden
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, that’s what the testing phase is for; weed out the problems before you get to the point where they can’t be fixed.
13 posted on
08/10/2012 11:00:39 AM PDT by
SuziQ
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
... go play some Lunar Lander ... That game program came on my HP-67, c. 1976. Still got the card somewhere.
14 posted on
08/10/2012 11:14:59 AM PDT by
kitchen
(Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Another article said a prime objective of this lander is to use “green” fuels. No wonder it crashed.
15 posted on
08/10/2012 11:19:45 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They named a lander after this guy?
16 posted on
08/10/2012 12:19:53 PM PDT by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
L
17 posted on
08/10/2012 12:22:50 PM PDT by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just reaching out to the mudslimes!
If only they could get it to decapitate.....
20 posted on
08/10/2012 3:38:18 PM PDT by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That is why it is called a “TEST”.
Remember how hard it was getting that first Satellite into orbit, back in the day?
But we eventually landed on the Moon.
21 posted on
08/10/2012 3:38:23 PM PDT by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
23 posted on
08/10/2012 3:54:31 PM PDT by
kanawa
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Means nothing at this early stage.
You should see some of the RC quadcopter crash videos on Youtube prior to getting the stabilization issues worked out. Later on they fly like on a magic carpet.
25 posted on
08/10/2012 9:13:34 PM PDT by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature not nurture TM)
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