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    This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency

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    Image of longbourne longbourne
    11/20/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    Is this the Republic of the Congo, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
    Perhaps it's people who live on the river Congo. There's only one of those.
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    Image of drewdrawshashtags drewdrawshashtags
    11/20/09

    @longbourne: She says Democratic Republic at :13
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    Image of dry-roasted-peanuts dry-roasted-peanuts
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    Isn't it about time for the Congo to have a revolt and go back to being Zaire?
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    Image of Gundem Gundem
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    wait what?

    What happened? it seems like that shit went to right then crashed.
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    Image of jakebathman jakebathman
    11/19/09

    @Gundem: Yeah they had to do it at night so we didn't have a really cool crash video. Damn.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    I wonder how many people in the audience actually knew what it was supposed to do?

    I bet at least one kid thought that space was wherever the second stage misfired to.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    I'm no astrophysicist, but building your country's rocket out of what appears to be recycled rusted stovepipe doesn't seem like a great idea.

    Also, Troposphere FIVE? I want the videos of I-IV!
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    My french skills aren't that great, but I'm pretty sure that I heard the announcer say "troposphere 5 did not launch in the right direction" which for some reason made me crack up. Perhaps because he said it with such a "of course, that's what we expected" tone.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    11/19/09

    @weatherman: I think "launch" is a pretty charitable word for what the rocket did.
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    Image of Philip Han Philip Han
    11/19/09

    @weatherman: The meaning is basically that it didn't go as planned.

    And yes, they said those exact words you said lol
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    Image of mumin mumin
    11/19/09

    @weatherman: nobody seems to bother that they put a living RAT in that thing?
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/19/09

    @mumin: apparently my french skills weren't good enough to figure that out, so now yes, I suppose I am bothered!

    #tips
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    Image of Sinecure Sinecure
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    That thing flew just like the rocket on Mythbusters the other day.

    They should have used an Estes kit. It would have flown straighter.
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    Image of InertGlasses InertGlasses
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    It's like watching the WNBA of NASA.
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    Image of AkkiRonin AkkiRonin
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    This made me smile. Good to see people interested enough in engineering to fund simply hacking.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    Isn't this the country where a plane landed in lava today?

    I don't know if I'd trust them to stuff me into a tube filled with liquid oxygen.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    11/19/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: to be fair, it wasn't molten lava...
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    Image of jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of. jayhawk11 is a trap star, sort of.
    11/19/09

    In reply to This Is How NASA Would Work If It Was Congo's Space Agency
    I love how the construction workers are just using a standard Craftsman tool set to assemble it.
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Ares I-X Rocket in Pictures, From Birth to Launch
    Amazing photos. #aresix
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    Image of BergenCountyJC can edit his name? BergenCountyJC can edit his name?
    10/30/09

    In reply to The Ares I-X Rocket in Pictures, From Birth to Launch
    Amazing shots in the link. Now why again did that White House panel determine that the moon is not worth going to? I think we need some moon alumni to take a stand. #aresix
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    10/30/09

    @BergenCountyJC: Hard to justify the expense on purely hypothetical grounds. It's important to remember that back in the 60's a driving force behind the moon landings was the Cold War and wanting to pwn the Russian space program. There's no overarching national image reason to push for another lunar landing. #aresix
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    10/30/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero: Understandably the origin of the moon landing was to demonstrate who's is bigger however I think a moon colony is more of a reality then Mars. If this was purely a scientific pursuit, we would focus our technologies and resources to something actually attainable. However once again politics, politics, politics. #aresix
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    Image of Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
    10/04/09

    In reply to This Insane Photo Destroyed a Camera Lens
    were I to gaze upon this image in a magazine, at a gallery, or in discussion with civilly responsible members of society, I would remark about the quality of the composition, the technical expertise required in order to assemble and configure the equipment to capture this shot, or the dedication of the photographer demonstrated by his willingness to risk his tools in order to record this image.

    But this is the internet, so...

    'shopped.
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    Image of PeterSnass PeterSnass
    10/02/09

    In reply to This Insane Photo Destroyed a Camera Lens
    Didn't the sound start before the rockets lifted off? Something's fishy here.
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    Image of FooSchnickens - BPH Free FooSchnickens - BPH Free
    10/02/09

    @PeterSnass: Sometime back in the early days of man, there was invented a device now known as a "timer."

    This "timer" could be set to various amounts of time and gradually revert itself to its original zeroed position (using a timed constant of some sort) at which point it would notify the user or even perform a preset task in much later iterations.

    One can only assume that Mr. Cooper utilized one of these "timers" in conjunction with a sound-operated trigger with which to start it.
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