Orval Fairbairn wrote:

In article MMk0f.439520$xm3.345436@attbi_s21,
John Ousterhout wrote:


When I saw this I thought it was the craziest thing I've seen since the
Moller Skycar: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9572408/


When I saw THIS it confirmed my opinion:
http://www.rocketracingleague.com/co...ship-team.html

- John Ousterhout -



Interesting -- Since rocket motors consume propellant at prodigious
rates, the actual powered-flight portion of such a race would be quite
short -- on the order of a couple of minutes max.

I think that the whole thing would prove to be pretty much a non-event.

Or it might appeal to people with that attention span. Hey, drag
races are 5-10 seconds long, there's lotsa money in that... maybe a
bad example, half the entertainment is when somebody's engine blows
up... sorry I brought it up.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the appeal to this will be getting
drunk and losing your hearing.