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ONLY A MORON
… would think we fired off 12 of these monsters just for show.

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  1. Meg-Meg says:

    Okay. I’m going to rescue this comment before any firstirs come along. Also: Yay for rockets ^_^

  2. Rattus says:

    Well, what is the actual point of them then?

    • ay dios mio says:

      it doesn’t matter!!! It just wasn’t for show alright

    • Mystraven says:

      There has been no reason to use the blasted things in years! we had to be sure they still work after all this time. And also, they’re fun to watch when they hit things…

      • bitter troll says:

        wez filling them with hostess fruit snacks and shooting them into space, to delay the incomeing space invasion with the real fruit filling and flanky crust

    • abby says:

      i thought the comment was referring to people who think the moon landing was faked. maybe i was wrong, but that’s what came to mind.

      • Revon Hyperion says:

        Forgive me for digging up an old comment, but yes, these were the rockets used for the moon landing. The Saturn V is a mammoth, costing hundreds of billions, and yet people think we just fired them off like bottle rockets and taped the moon landings on some set.

  3. nogood says:

    so what where they fired off for? Science?

  4. morecowbell says:

    oh em gee. this is so funny. yes, i agree this should be front page. oh, i just about lost my breakfast from laughing so hard. oh, coffee out of my nose. oh, so funny.

  5. Jane St.Clair says:

    I don’t get it… is this referencing something I should know about?

    • I believe it’s in response to the conspiracy theorists who don’t believe that the moon landing actually happened.

      • smartz says:

        Insulting idiotic conspiracy theorists? Check.
        LOL worthy? Not really.

        Who the hell voted for this thing anyways? There were a lot more interesting LOLs when I viewed the voting pages…

      • F- says:

        Or to people who think it was just some politics driven competition with the U.S.S.R. , not a potentially highly profitable investment in the future of the human race.

      • forge says:

        Or possibly another thread on here someplace (or was it Livejournal??) about how the space program was only there to get America to go AMERICA F*CK YEAH behind the effort to beat Russia to the moon. ‘Course they gave up about halfway thorough and I don’t think they ever actually did go, but nevermindthatnow…

        • Scythelord says:

          “don’t think they ever actually did go.”

          Fail. Just fail.

          How people can look at the evidence and hours of video that is fully accepted by the scientific community and just say we didn’t go makes my brain hurt. Sorry, but we did indeed go. There has been man on the moon. None of the conspiracy nuts have a solid argument.

          • mAlise_teh_nova says:

            while i don’t disbelieve that we’ve been to the moon, that has nothing to do with ‘…fully accepted by the scientific community.’ the ‘scientific community’ is on the take from and under the thumb ov government twats more than almost anyone else.

            • Sick_Scotsman says:

              There’s strong arguments on both sides I believe. Quite a lot of the footage has small problems with it, such as crosses etched on to the front of the camera lense being blocked by the person in the image… but you have to think about it in context. Beating the Russians “to the moon” was more important than anything else. Just because someone has a different opinion doesn’t mean they fail. You fail for being unable to take someone else’s point of view.

  6. Iglip says:

    …and that’s why you should carry lipbalm with you AT ALL TIMES.

  7. kake79 says:

    Did I miss the news or something? When were 12 rockets launched?

    • jinny_1909 says:

      Probably before you were born

    • The Steve says:

      Apparently you missed elementary school too, or they no longer teach American History.

      Actually, we launched 13. This is a Saturn V rocket. It was used for Apollo 4, Apollo 6, and Apollo 8-17 as well as Skylab 1.

      Apollo 18, 19, 20 were scheduled go to the moon using the Saturn V but those missions were cancelled.

      • EWAdams says:

        Sorry, I forgot Skylab. My bad.

        • The Steve says:

          Thats ok, there were 12 launched for the Apollo program. I knew what you meant ;)

          The fact that we can launch a rocket from a spinning planet 240,000 miles and drop it onto another spinning celestial body, within 500 feet of a probe we sent up years earlier is purely bad-ass.

          Kim Jong-il should be concerened, as close range as he is in comparison, we could probably land a nuke on the end of his nose, give or take a few centimeters.

          • froofrou says:

            Point of order, Steve: If we dont’ have the nukes with which to aim at Kim’s pointy nose, how will we then land one on it? And, absent the prez with the itchy trigger finger, how shall we ever convince him that we not only CAN, but WILL? ;-)

            • The Steve says:

              Don’t worry, last I heard were were reducing our nuclear arsenal to around 1,500 active warheads. I think that should still be enough to do some damage, he’s not a very tall man.

              • froofrou says:

                You’re ignoring the “non-itchy trigger finger” that will make him think we will actually use it.

                • froofrou says:

                  Crap, incomplete thought, sorry.
                  -
                  “You’re ignoring the “non-itchy trigger finger” that will make him think we will actually use it, because you can have all the nukes and guns in the world, and you will still get shot and killed if you’re not willing to use them.” There, fixed that for me :-)

                  • The Steve says:

                    Unfortunately the only way to prove we would use them now is to actually let a couple off the chain.

                    I don’t think any country in recent history has done anything to warrant the use of such a weapon. Even in North Korea attacked us, the citizens have nothing to do with it, and they would be the ones who would pay the price if we dropped a nuke.

          • mothergoose says:

            I always liked what Sam Kinison said: If the Russians wnat to prove how great they are, tell them to bring back our flag!!!!!

          • Criskit84 says:

            You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

          • Tessie says:

            “Kim Jong-il should be concerened, as close range as he is in comparison, we could probably land a nuke on the end of his nose, give or take a few centimeters.”
            `
            In all fairness, it’s a very small nose.

      • Aaron says:

        Well clearly this is specifically an apollo rocket, since skylab didn’t have the escape tower. If you’re going to be a smart ass, be smarter

      • Dhoti says:

        12 is correct. Skylab I was launched on a Saturn INT-21, a two-stage vehicle derived from the Saturn V.

        • Basara549 says:

          The SKYLAB ITSELF was….

          You forget that the I & II designations were the manned flight TO Skylab, after it was in orbit.

          • Dhoti says:

            No; the four Skylab flights (the initial unmanned launch and the three — not two — manned missions to follow) were named Skylab I to Skylab IV. The manned flights were also, confusingly, numbered SLM-1 to SLM-3.

            Apollo-Soyuz was launched on a Saturn IB.

          • Dhoti says:

            I guess I should have said “Skylab I used”, to be less confusing…

      • Basara549 says:

        Aren’t you forgetting the Apollo-Soyuz mission? That would make 14….

  8. Alex Swanson says:

    “so what where they fired off for? Science?”

    I’m going to ignore the various errors in your sentence construction and cut to the chase. That particular rocket is the Saturn V, the rocket that took the United States to the moon.

  9. Squiggly says:

    Looks like we’re back to LoLs that aren’t funny again. -.-;

  10. Shagsbeard says:

    My initial response was “What’s this guy got against Mormons?” I guess I need to get my glasses checked.

  11. ewwee says:

    Who is the moron that is being referenced here. I don’t think its the people who believe that the moon landing was faked.

  12. Raptor says:

    First we went to the moon cause of are space race with Russia during the cold War that was pretty much are movement. We used it to mark the flag that we won the space race. they were saturn V rockets used during the 60′s an 70′s (1961-1975). That was for all the people who don’t know what happened with these rockets read on Wiki if you want more.

  13. D says:

    I must be a moron.

  14. rafa says:

    ye, its not like you can fill those up with garbage and dispose of it up there, right?
    i dont get the LOL part in the caption, and why the insult to people who disagree with you? anyways not LOL

  15. dotdotdot says:

    How many times does this guy need to caption this same image with the same caption?

    Check out his history. It’s so pathetic.

  16. lowly grunt says:

    While filming Apollo 13, the cast and crew were on board the “vomit comet” – a specially adapted jet that simulated the weightlessness of space – shooting scenes for the movie. One time, a group of astronauts were also aboard conducting some type of experiment. Ron Howard was floating over the top of their set up when suddenly, gravity kicked back in and he fell on top of their project.

    I like this quote from the Wikipedia page:
    “Ron Howard stated that, after the first test preview of the film, one of the comment cards indicated “total disdain”; the audience member had written that it was a “typical Hollywood” ending and that the crew never would have survived.”

    • Jane St.Clair says:

      I’m getting a kick out of imagining Ron Howard floating around. And while I want to be surprised at the vast stupidity demonstrated in your second paragraph I’m afraid I can’t be. Good facts though, LG!

    • Tessie says:

      This story has double WIN:
      1. Introducing the phrase “vomit comet” to PK
      2. Ron Howard falling on top of the other guys’ project.

  17. Criskit84 says:

    Does it matter whether it is funny or not? No matter how funny the LOL is, it gets turned into one big, serious cluster F of a debate in the comments…I have seen blood fly…

    So let us sit on our soapbox and look down from our cloud of superiority on the unbelievers!

  18. Joe Biden says:

    Only a moron or an Obama voter….oh wait, that’s redundant.

  19. eddiepscetti says:

    I just finished going through the voting and I have one question: What the hell is up with all of lols just saying NEXT! Am I missing something? Oh, and for the record, if you make a lol and you use shortened words like “u”, “ur”, or any lolcat words I’m voting fail.. I hate that sh!t!!

  20. Izzy*&hearts* says:

    This isn’t funny to me. It kind of screams, “Well, duh!”

  21. CobraDBlade says:

    I thought they fired off 15 of the Saturn V rockets. (15 Apollo missions right?)

    • rallymodeller says:

      There were actually more than 20 Apollo launches, if you include Apollo-Soyuz and the Skylab missions. Not all of them were manned, and several used the smaller Saturn 1B launcher. Only the shots that actually went to the Moon used the big gun.

      BTW, the Saturn V remains to this day the most powerful machine ever made.

  22. philip says:

    Well, the scientific profit (knowledge and that sort of thing) was quite low, especially relative to the price. Science wasn’t the (main) reason.

    The main reason was to race the communists to the moon, proving in the eyes of the world that capitalism works better than communism and that America is a better ally than Russia. In other words, it’s just for the show.
    (and the subsequent respect that show would give).

    • EWAdams says:

      The scientific profit may not have been that high, but the engineering profit was tremendous. We got a whole lot of cool new tech out of it.

  23. Danbala says:

    Oh. No.
    *whips out the crystal ball*
    I foresee …
    1: A multitude of practically identical posts explaining how WWI and II actually started, posted due to the simple fact that no one can be arsed to see if their oh-so-unique knowledge might already have been spread by others.
    2: …
    3: THE END OF THE WORLD

    Damn. :/

  24. forge says:

    Only a moron would think we DIDN’T. Really, REALLY that unfamiliar with Big Penis Sixties America? REALLY? We ***HAD*** to prove our penis was bigger than Russia’s penis. HAD TO.

    And of course we’re still doing it. Big Penis Iraq Invasion, Big Penis Making Kim Think He Matters, Big Penis Same With Chavez. Penis penis penis penis penis.

  25. Fifas says:

    Well only a moron would just believe the man stood in teh moon.
    And then again, when I saw my mother giving it the real shit to my plumber man, I loearned to believe that SHIT HAPPENS!

  26. M.B. says:

    Is it true that Tang is Chinese for orange?

    • bitter troll says:

      bitter troll has no clue, no facts, no proof

      based off that bitter troll is forced to say NO

      because on interwebs you donno have to really know

      just sound right

    • J says:

      When talking about the orange drink, the name is from the word ‘tangy’ meaning a sharp sour taste, like the drink, which is from Norse word for a sharp tool. ‘tangi’

      ‘tang’ in Chinese can refer to a lot of different things depending on context; most notably to english would be the Tang Dynasty.

  27. LanceThruster says:

    The main purpose of the Space Race was to develop and demonstrate large and dependable booster rockets that would have applications in the Cold War (as ICBMs). It was a continuation of Werver von Braun’s V-2 program with a civilian program as cover. The aerospace industry always benefitted from excitement in the field of science and technology development that drew exceptional students towards engineering.

  28. WinstonSmith2600 says:

    Another caption from a government worshiper.

  29. monkey says:

    only a moron would think the whole space race was anything BUT for show!!!


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