The Grasshopper keeps learning more from it’s master…

What SpaceX is doing with rockets is just too cool!  And they make it look easy.  Some might remember the trick of balancing a broomstick vertically from the palm of the hand.  Now substitute flame and thrust for the hand, and a 100 foot or so tall metal tube for the broomstick.  Then control the direction of the angle of that tube.  Linky:  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2423168,00.asp

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