Japanese Shuttle Crashes in Sweden 32
spacecomputer writes "Japanese delta wing space shuttle crashes in Sweden field during high speed test. Another setback for the Hope-X program."
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
Why are they having trouble? (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think Japan would be the last place to be having trouble getting a large, heavy, stiff object to fly at great speeds. Can't they just study how Rodan does it?
Next you'll be telling me they're having trouble demolishing buildings...
GMD
Re:Why are they having trouble? (Score:2)
Re:Why are they having trouble? (Score:2)
You'd think Japan would be the last place to be having trouble getting a large, heavy, stiff object to fly at great speeds.
Obviously they didn't put enough fake "Type-R" stickers on it.
Not that bad (Score:5, Insightful)
And this quote: "From a scientific perspective, it was a success because we collected the data we were looking for."
Re:Not that bad (Score:5, Funny)
Japanese scientists are insisting that no wing damage occured when Godzilla took a swipe at it.
Re:Not that bad (Score:1)
I'll have to remember that one.
"Well Boss, I know it looks bad that we forgot to turn off Register_globals and let the whole world have access to our customers' credit card numbers and age, but from a scientific perspective....."
Did anybody else read the headline... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Did anybody else read the headline... (Score:1)
Re:Did anybody else read the headline... (Score:2)
I didn't say it killed a man!
=)
Re:Did anybody else read the headline... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:SWEDEN FIELD? (Score:1)
I vote that you worry about what he was said instead of how he phrased it.
Re:SWEDEN FIELD? (Score:2)
Too bad you were modded as overrated, I thought you made a good point. I probably have a different reason for not wanting to pick on people for grammar and spelling: people visit Slashdot from all over the world, not just the english speaking countries.
If we're going to be so anal about how people speak english, then how can people just learning english participate? That's a pretty shitty way to discriminate against people exp
Re:SWEDEN FIELD? (Score:1, Insightful)
Right, and the best way for people to become better at speaking English and thereby "expand their ability to communicate" is for them not to be corrected when they make mistakes. Best to let them keep making mistakes until the mistakes become habits. Certainly, they shouldn't, as the original p
Re:SWEDEN FIELD? (Score:2)
Rationalization Error:
Insulting != Correcting.
When I first read the headline... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:When I first read the headline... (Score:1)
hmmm..... (Score:2, Funny)
I bet their shuttle gets a lot better mileage than American shuttles do though. :)
1 in 3 (in five-minute plunge) (Score:1)
.8 mach is SLOW (Score:3, Informative)
Japan and Sweden... (Score:2)
I mean, I know that the Japanese have their F-2 and manufacture F-15s under license, while the Swedes have their Saab fighters.
I'd just never thought about the two of them getting together and into the space race.
Wow!
Re:Japan and Sweden... (Score:1)
Re:Japan and Sweden... (Score:2)