alt Hacker NewsIt is kind of sad to be living where it's too early to have your own space craft. It is sci-fi at this point anyway to consider life like that, but that would be cool to write software for like car CAN bus. But I also get it's not a toy/matter of life and death. I guess a video game or simulator is the closest thing. Standardized APIs for thrusters or something that would be cool.
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My dad bought a Belite ultralight aircraft. It arrived with the propeller too long so he damaged the motor the first time he booted it up. Rather than fixing the struts and wheels, they fucking cut the propeller shorter. The left wing was 3" longer than the right wing. It is an Italian motorcycle engine.
You might try to Google belite because that sounds awesome, right? My dad told Mr he was selling the plane when he got it back from belite, but decided to fly it one last time.
The engine failed at like 1000' after takeoff and piledrove him into some poor bastard's farm a quarter mile from the airport. The fucking plane could not even glide.
Random ass people driving is bad enough. I have dozens of gigs of dashcam videos of all manner of insane, mad, evil, stupid, degenerate driver in my more recent 100,000 miles traveled in the US.
It will probably never be feasible to have "your own" spacecraft like we have cars. The time and distance scales are just way too huge. Something more resembling the scale of a superyacht might become possible in the far future.
People can't even afford the cars they finance. Having your own plane is extremely rare. Even if you COULD have your own space craft, they would be more rare than owning a plane.