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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  3529 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trip Report: Cape Canaveral / MMS Launch / Orlando, FL

    Here it is. Several years of my life's work several hundred feet off the ground, strapped to a bomb.

I feel like there's a lot to be said about this but I'm not sure what right now. Those day before and site launch pictures...wow. Everything looks a lot smaller on TV and during the streams of launches. It must look huge in person. Also...those Saturn V pictures are something else entirely, just massive. I can't imagine being anywhere near one of those knowing it's taking you into space.

14ft gators are something I wouldn't want to be around in any circumstances, props to you on that one. And, you know, for working on part of the project for this launch. Gators might be a bit more impressive though.

Waffle House is...well...kind of terrible but still great at the same time.





kleinbl00  ·  3529 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Someone or other once described the Saturn V as a skyscraper full of explosives designed to hurl a Volkswagen at the moon. I think they were probably more prosaic but if I recall correctly, the Saturn V would have 30-odd stories if it were an office building.