John Carmack (yes, THE John Carmack) explains to a Slashdot troll...ahem, I mean Slashdot user how The Hulk can jump 50 feet into the air without leaving huge holes in the ground...

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=615 ... 5783979</a>

John Carmack (yes, THE John Carmack) explains to a Slashdot troll...ahem, I mean Slashdot user how The Hulk can jump 50 feet into the air without leaving huge holes in the ground...</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Heh... awesome... :)</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>So let's assume that all of the Hulk's weight is on the front 1/3 of his feet. Then it's 236 psi of <i>pressure</i> (Carmack said force - "pounds per square inch" is pressure, not force). I don't know if the Hulk would leave a crater, but I certainly think he'd crack the asphalt.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>isnt that the Carmack from IDsoftware who made Doom? I wouldnt rest assured on the word of a programmer.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '><i>Just for the record, if you have entered into a <B>Hulk Trailer Physics Discussion </B> and <B>John Friggin' Carmack</B> starts weighing in and uses the full power of the mind that wrote the physics engine for nearly every ID product to assist you in calculating the physics of the Hulk Trailer... and then you <B>counteract with a dismissal referring to an obscure NASA miscalculation regarding measurements</B>.. and you're <B>wrong</B> because in fact you're confusing him with a general NASA engineer instead of his side work with Armadillo and professional rocket propulsion.....</i></div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>This is also Carmack who is currently building rockets. In all respects, you could call the guy a rocket scientist.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Yup. His physics is sound - I think, I haven't looked that closely at it - the problem is with his assumption.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>Doom creater turned rocket maker? How does one switch markets so easily.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Only one way to resolve this. Quick, someone find out if the Hulk jumps flat footed or not! ;)</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>He played with rockets as a kid, he's super smart, he's rich, and he researched the field for a year before starting (even funded some other projects before deciding he could do better himself)...</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>He doesn't make money off of it. He does it because has the time, the money and the drive.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I got a laugh from that too.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>And actually, I wouldn't call him a "rocket scientist," or even an engineer. You should see the course work my girlfriend does. I'd be surprised if he's done the equivalent on his own.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I dunno. Mathematics/Physics-wise, I'd put him up against any university trained aerospace engineer.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I seriously doubt he's been through the rigor my my girlfriend, an aerospace engineer, has. Structures, fluid dynamics, compressables - and that's just this semester.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I certainly think he's capable, I just doubt he's gotten all of that on his own.</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>To design a vessel capable of holding 3 human beings 62 miles into the sky(alive) and having them return to earth (alive), you'd need to know all that stuff. There's no way around it.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>He designed it himself?</div>

[Ishamael]

<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Not just him. I think a couple of the guys on his team had worked with hydrogen perxoide rockets before...</div>