ROCKET SCIENCE
It really is that hard, but the results kick ass.
(Moon Landing)
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First.
That being said, damn true, though conspiracy theorists might claim otherwise, especially with the example provided.
The Kentucky Derby is the oldest consecutive sporting event in the United States. At last year’s race, every single horse in the running was related to Northern Dancer, a stallion who stood at stud from the 1960′s to the late 1980′s. This stud appears at least once on the top of bottom side of each horse that ran, though oftentimes he appears twice to three times in the bloodline.
Blarrggh! Typing too fast, Native Dancer. Native Dancer sire to Northern D. 1950-1967. Got mah horses crossed. Still scary, as he appears four times in Eight Belles’ line, the filly who went down at last year’s Derby.
Obviously it’s working quite well for those on the cash-end of the breeding industry, but not too well for the animals breaking down at the track.
Warranty repairs suck.
*cough* Set and costume design, and lighting?
/in before
WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
Ooooooo, let’s call people like that ConspiriTrolls. And you forgot your Elebenty.
*modifies Troll stick*
Here you go, Jane…I wraped the tip of it in tin foil…matches their hats.
Now, when we bop them on the heads we get nifty sparks. Thanks MG!
Well, it wasn’t Rocket Science…
*rimshot*
that was supposed to be between just us, thanks.
That caption is so faked.
Lol…nice!!!
Well Aldrin to that!
What Apollo!
I’d come up with another pun, but I’m a gloomy Gus (Grissom)…now, maybe if I had a Buzz (Aldrin) I’d come up with one that would really make your Mercury rise.
I refuse to neil before your strongarming tactics.
Hey, Yuri (Gagarin) friend to both of us! Now give us a (Sally) Ride to the bar!
Me drink cosmonaut happy with me lot in life.
Despite your Mercurial moods you’re still as lovely as Venus to me!
Even if you’re talking out of Uranus, I sense Saturn for the better!
And a new Challenger enters the ring to contribute to your Enterprise…
(Wouldn’t want to be a buzz-kill)
LOL!
The results do indeed kick ass. This is one bragging right that will be recognized worldwide for as long as humans inhabit this planet. The fact that we did it with the technology of the late 60′s is incredible.
As an engineer I am totally impressed that it was all done with stuff designed on sliderules and drafting boards!
which is why it might have not really happened.
I knew if I checked back a few times I’d find one of you freaks.
*thick austrian accent*
And this is my private reserve, where I hunt the deadliest game of all… man.
Dangerous Game FTW
Not really the late 60′s.. the Apollo program was actually started up in the early to mid 60′s. And for the record, computers existed back then as well.
Meh, the science isn’t that hard, as shown by the fact that we humans managed to pull it off in the 60′s. Science isn’t what’s keeping us from the moon now, it’s the fact that nobody is willing to spend a mountain of cash on what is (scientifically speaking) rather useless.
Now, be fair: the 60′s is were the fifth most technologically advanced decade in 200,000 years of human developement! Don’t disparage just ’cause they didn’t have any cell phones yet. Or digital watches.
Or the fact that my cell phone has more processing power, and tons more memory than any of the mainframe computers available to NASA at the time.
And wastes how much of it on bitmap graphics for the screens, “second-guess what word you wanted to use next and get it wrong 9 times out of 10″ SMS text, running A Mess Windoze Compact instead of a proper operating system…?
I use it to make phone calls, and it does. Everything else is extraneous.
This is what gets me. It’s extraneous, so you need it why?
My phone is cheap and functional, and hard-wearing ’cause I’m clumsy.
I don’t need it, but my employer purchased it for me and pays my bill, should I ask him to get me a crappier model?
Oh, freerides are always good times. Well played.
We can send a man to the moon, but we still can’t get my pizza delivered in under half-an-hour…
At least you have people willing to deliver to your house. Apparently living in a subdivision “in the county” is virtually the same as living on the moon.
Is the pizza vegan? Those seem to take longer. Pepperoni takes alot less time for me.
Vegan pizzas take sooo long to get to me…
Of course, if I actually *ordered* one, that might speed the process up a bit
Pizza without even any cheese isn’t pizza. It’s just a big, boring cookie with vegetables on it.
*snerk* That made me laugh
‘boring’ and ‘cookie’ in same sentence with no ‘not’…
*brain assplodes*
Vegan pizza?
You are wasting hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary work. We didn’t evolve from tribal gatherers to continue to eat tasteless bark, dried berries, and grass. Humans as a species are omnivorous, and the whole point of agriculture is to be able to eat delicious, and nutrient rich meats, vegetables, and grains without traveling great distances.
In short, give me meat lovers pizza and cheeseburgers or give me death.
And now I’m hungry.
ARGH! Your comment is making my venison roast and squished potaters seem very unappealing after i spent all day cooking it. I’m ready to toss it and get pizza.
Venison is also delicious! I just prefer it in sausage rather than roast. I have like 20 pounds of venison snack sticks, summer sausage, and italian brats in the freezer right now! Yumm!
Ditto dat freezer action! Venison and pork sausage is da bomb!
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*heads out to defrost some Hawt Doe Stix*
It’s not da bomb, it’s da bambi
You have Italian children in your freezer? *backs away slowly, grabs phone to call policia*
Yeah, but froo, those brats had it coming. They wouldn’t stop fooling around and it was way past time for bed.
I think we need a press conference.
I think that the Steve is far enough away from your inner circle that we can go with plausible deniability here, sir. A press conference at this point might imply that your administration knew about the italian brats in advance.
Good point, belay that order.
Ok, so we know what the Italian children did, but what did the chicken do?
It’s best you never know.
Ack, reading further down the thread fail. Sorry.
…and the parrot says, “Sir, I am deeply, profoundly sorry for having offended in anyway. But may I ask…please…what did the chicken do?”
Ooh! Ooh! Me! I’ll take venison roast and taters. Please no to be throwing them out!!!
(venison pizza?)
I will give you death for that pizza…
you all have such awesome venison ideas! I knew I wasn’t that bright, but I never thought you guys would go all Anthony Bourdain on me! Okay, you are all now required to come help me make an awesome feast of venison.
OK, please don’t bash a reasoned ideology without at least some kind of argument. Humans have evolved to eat meat, but who says we’re done changing? We also evolved to do all sorts of unpleasant things that we’ve successfully moved on from. Don’t justify something just because natural selection chanced on it.
To each their own, enjoy steak and pork and all the rest, and make your own moral judgements on the matter. Just PLEASE don’t run around saying anyone who doesn’t is some kind of irrational whackjob.
*goes back to his celery*
mmm… crunchy AND tangy…
Enjoy because I’m not gonna eat it. Damn devil weed…
To quote a tee shirt, I didn’t claw my way up the food chain to eat vegetables
I am a meat eater, and I intend to remain one! And the rarer the better! Just run that steer past my table and let me break off a chunk!
I have no intent of tring to limit any meat-eating you might want to do, or criticising it in an broad, aggressive or unjustified way. I kinda hope to get the same treatment back, which is why I was a little worked up there (not that you were doing that, just that someone was and it ticked me off).
And celery is the best food ever. After death, it can be returned to vigor with a glass of water – zombie plants! I’m actually saving the world from this brain-hungry menace! Damn you, evil plant, I shall defeat you yet! Take that *nom*! and THAT *nom*!
*passes the peanut butter* Go forth and kick ass.
Considering that celery is one of the few negative calorie foods out there (I think mushrooms are another), then you’re not doing too badly, hehe.
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And if you criticize my meat-eating in a broad, aggressive, or unjustified way, expect to be doused in celery drippings and garnished with some pickled beets. So there
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(zombie plant……did Jesus eat them too?)
How is providing me with a feast going to discourage me? Celery and beets AND garnish? You had me at washed and raw.
Um……..doused with the blood from a freshly squeezed turnip, fresh from the hands of the tax man?
I’ll cover you in cow blood and eat a steak while you scream on the spit.
Better?
Yes and no. Mostly no, but at least it works as a deterrent.
Mostly becuase of the very uncomfortable spit, mind. I’m not squeamish.
I do write horror so I try where I can. The spit would have you tied in barbed wire. Gotta get you properly cooked.
Damn, now I’m hungry for some grilled food tonight…
Way back when, I used to ST for my buddies (we were into white wolf games). I worked on my ambient descriptons with loving care. There were intestines writhing ropily across dripping abdomens, mouths distorted in still-born screams, artful gouts of bile from a ruptured liver, sweet somethings peeking out from horrified wails, the works.
And they just sucked it up and enjoyed their pizza. Horror is no fun when you don’t get to actually horrify someone (hopefully all that work finally served it’s purpose).
Personally I found one of my moments was when on of my players had her back to me and I was describing the stages of phantasms going on above them as feral eyed little girls were staring down at the party from the rafters, eating bits of lynched little boys.
Then I made a noise behind her head and she nearly pissed herself and had to go find the bathroom.
Good times.
*one
I was always much stronger with the visceral stuff, and the ease with which it became natural to people, and they even got quite into it after awhile. I had the most fun when I introduced new players, with no warning, to the rest happily chowing down in a communal feast.
The really climbing into people’s heads stuff is amazing, but sadly not my forte.
Luckily I have a lot of bad experiences and nightmares to work with…
I try to only use visceral or headfu(kery when it actually applies to the plot. I run D&D so we don’t hit the usual craziness but I have scared them more than once if they end up in some area that is a festering pit of horror and madness.
I once had a dungeon theme where it was the walking nightmares of a lich’s tower. The lich was trapped by planar tendrils in a failed power ritual to touch the Far Realm, a place of madness. Think Lovecraft and Event Horizon.
So they would walk into rooms completely disjointed from the perceived reality. And the ceiling was watching them with literal eyes. I think the plague of zombie rats who burst from a pile of bodies with ghoul support was a nice touch.
You should see the effort I put into my halloween games.
Sadly, despite vast experience as a coward, I’ve never understood fear. The best explanation I read was in ‘Spares’, when the author talked about ‘The Fear’. Just the way he asumed that you knew what he meant, and you did, every step of the way. It was The Fear, and you are intimately familiar with it, it knows you better than anyone else ever could, because its right there in your head alongside you.
Maybe I just don’t want to understand.
Well the thing to remember is that fear is all in your head. It is there because you don’t or can’t understand. The fear of a murdering psychopath is similar to being chased by a bully. It is a creature nastier than yourself and you are all but helpless to stop them.
So you run and hope that your ragged breath isn’t so loud as to lead them to you when you hide.
Stuff like that.
Oh, you’ll get both, don’t worry. You’ll just get death a bit faster if you exceed reasonable limits on the meat lover’s pizza and cheeseburgers.
It’s only that hard if some of them work in metric and the others work in feet and inches. And they don’t tell each other.
Naming no organisations that launch orbital platorms from French Guiana in particular!
Nor any airlines with unscheduled arrivals at Gimli?
My father is a rocket scientist- “aerospace engineer”- and we very well did go the the moon. He currently works on parts that will go into future space shuttles and rocket, as well as sells the parts and contracts to other countries interested in them. He’s top dog, let me put it that way. He got his kids (myself included) into model rocketry, and let me tell you this- it certainly as heck kicks ass. All the way. It takes a heck of a lot of work and brains to get into that deparment.
Congratulations on your gene pool. You’re sure to make a splash.
You shouldn’t Mendel in things you don’t understand.
RNA of us capable of really understanding?
I’ll just see Watson television. This place gives me a Crick in the neck.
Foreign news (you’ll need to translate), crossing over to live reporter?
Smart, discreet AND humble! What a catch……
Irony, a pot, and a kettle, all in one post!
*cough*guffaw*cough*
I DO love the Steve.
Steve with the Zing of the month…
Thank you for the spit-take of the day, Steve!
Thanks ladies, so glad you enjoyed! *takes a bow*
*loses battle with self*
You know, it’s more polite to swallow…
*facepalm*
I just couldn’t let it go.
They have pills for that.
Yes, but if it lasts for more than four hours you should see a doctor.
Who might have to amputate.
Man, it sucks when that happens. I remember when it happened to me….er…..I’ve said too much…….
O_o…
Wait, what? What sucks when what happens? Did I miss something? Who are you and why am I wearing a cheerleader uniform?
/swoons
*cackles in secret camera room*
Waiter? Can I get some ice over here? I seem to be suffering from and epic burn…
Congratulations to him, and my respects to him for getting you into model rocketry. I flew those when I was a kid during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and now I’ve built and flown high power sounding rockets paid for by grants from NASA.
My dad was an EE who did some work on the cooling systems for the spacesuits used on the moon.
As my engineer husband used to say, “You can’t be a geek without EE.”
I don’t laugh at that anymore.
Is there a way to get this is a poster? Seriously! This is better than most of the real “motivational” posters out there!
Well, you could right-click and save it to your computer, put it on a flash-drive, and take it somewhere that makes poster-size prints (e.g. Kinkos or similar).
NASA has all of the original full size High-Res images uploaded to their website. Making a print from one of them would provide much prettier results.
If you have a half-decent A4 colour printer, you’re just a few mouse clicks from a copy.
True, but I (and I’m guessing a lot of people) don’t have a printer that will use paper larger than 8 1/2 x 14, and I was guessing they’d want it larger than that.
Wow, looking at this comment section, you’d never know this site is usually full of hatred and bile.
Only about politics – hardly ever about cool stuff like science! Oh, and sex!
And occasionally food, gardening, and music!
We do get some static about sex but more rarely than in months past.
There’s static if we’re rubbed the wrong way.
There’s static if we’re rubbed the right way, too, but we don’t care.
I find all of this quite shocking but I get a charge out of all of our coital conversations.
Oh that’s our electromagnetic personalities.
Ohm charging you both with lewd conduct.
ooo for the occasionall fruitcake out there who still believes that the moon landing never happened, don’t you ever watch Mythbusters?!? If not I suggest you dig up the moonlanding episode and watch it 20 to 30 times to drill into your head that the MYTH about it being faked in a sound studio was BUSTED, SMASHED, BAKED, BROILED, TORCHED AND TORTURED. It could NOT have been faked. PERIOD.
You beat me to it!!! But a very good point, and an excellent Mythbusters episode!!!!
If the moon landing was faked that must have been the highest budgeted movie evar!!!
I heard the very curious theory that they did land on the moon, but radiation wiped the videotapes on the way back, so they re-filmed it in a studio.
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some one obviously delete an ‘r’ from my previous comment. CONSPIRACY!
And, Mark, that tiny little “r” was the only thing slightly off in that comment …
This is from Apollo 15 and the astronaut is James Benson Irwin, may he rest in peace.
Yeah..Shame It’s Not Real
Not to say we’re ADD, stoned on CGI, and used to believing whatever we don’t have to think about, but… could that be why nobody’s been back to the moon since “rocket science” became a figure of speech?