NASA's Morpheus lander in fiery crash at Cape Canaveral

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[QUOTE=DireAvenger;37160907]It even LOOKS too fat to get off the ground in the first place. It would probably work correctly in a low-gravity environment, but getting shit to work with thrust vectoring in Earth's atmosphere is bullshit and fucking hard.

That drone that flies purely with 6-direction thrusters comes to mind.[/QUOTE]

It works fine:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFbFzR12IEs[/media]
Making stuff hover on earth is harder than the moon, but it's definitely doable and has been done time and time again in the past.

[DireAvenger]

Oh boy I feel pretty stupid now

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Morpheus is a badass name for a FLAMETHROWER HELICOPTER