Awesome: Rocket Racing Coming October 2006
This piece of news lands right in the heart of awesome … my only worry is will soaring gas prices kill this sport? Heck no, this is America. It’s NASCAR in the sky, it’s rocket racing. The exhibition event launches October of next year, and they say the sport league will start for reals in 2007.
Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing that probably sounds like a lot more fun that it really will be. I mean, how can watching miniscule rockets fly around in the atmosphere be a more visceral experience than witnessing race cars scream around the bends? They say there will be big-screen TVs at the event. They better be talking about huge-giant-super-enormous TV screens, and the biggest sound system ever imagined, and heck while we’re at it, Sigur Ros playing live at every show…
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