Rocket Science on Two Wheels 76
dstone writes "Tim Pickens, president of Orion Propulsion, the rocket design firm behind SpaceShipOne, has designed a bicycle-mounted 200-pound-thrust rocket engine that will allow a bicycle to accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 5 seconds. From the article: 'The rocket bike employs the same hybrid rocket technology as the suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipOne, whose propulsion system Pickens helped design. [...] The engineer's next project is to build a company car: a pickup truck with a removable 2,000-pound-thrust rocket strapped into the bed.'"
Re:0-60 in 5 secs (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps, but your average motorcycle doesn't incinerate the Hyundai Excel that's been tailgating you for the past six traffic lights.
Re:Now thats cool (Score:5, Funny)
No. As a firm proponent of continuing human evolution, the strengthening of the whole human gene pool through the removal of the dare devil stupidity gene both entertains and reassures me.
Why do the words... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:200 lb of thrust? (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdotter 265 lb
Total 165.5 kg
Mixing lb and kg? do you by any chance work for NASA?1