

Posted: 1/13/2021 8:09:50 PM EST
The Saturn 5 rocket.
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Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
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[Last Edit: 1/13/2021 8:10:48 PM EST by jerrwhy01]
No, the sound staged that it was filmed on was.
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Look, when I woke up this morning I had no plans to be sexy, but shit happens!
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I'm just going to sit here and agree with you, OP.
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Support NBB and Virginia:
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An A-10 could shoot that thing out of the sky with ease...
Just saying... |
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LOL
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Originally Posted By jerrwhy01: No, the sound staged that it was filmed on was. View Quote ![]() |
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I waa going to say the USS Iowa, but the SatV is also an amazing piece of hardware.
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Critical thinking is dead.
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Laughs in Panama Canal.
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"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?”
-Snoopy |
13B / 39C X5 / 35M yup reclassed more than once...
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Originally Posted By jerrwhy01: No, the sound staged that it was filmed on was. View Quote ![]() |
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein "Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot. . ." Napoleon Bonaparte |
I experienced several Apollo moon shots. There are no words to describe the sight, sound, pressure and fury.
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It takes a large set of brass balls to strap yourself on top of that candle.
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SCE to AUX
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I was expecting the OP to be wrong. I was wrong.
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[Last Edit: 1/13/2021 8:24:26 PM EST by mallninjamaster]
LOL at the mach cone while it's is still near vertical.
25 stories tall and hit mach 7 while it was still in the atmosphere. It is still considered the most complicated machine ever built by man. |
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"If the people come to believe that the government is no longer constrained by the laws, then they will conclude that neither are they."
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Aircraft carriers are pretty kewl.
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Capitalism produces, communism reduces.
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Problem is, they say we are to dum to build new Saturn V now
That’s why we have been contracting to the Russian space people Now Elon musk is building rockets that nasa can’t |
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First though of Saturn V when read the thread title. Mock-up of the thing is at the Houston Space Center. Even laying there it’s an impressive piece of engineering.
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Amanda? Come on dude. That's probably not even her real name.
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Just think, the country that built that will be unrecognizable in a couple short decades. I doubt the minds even exist to recreate it.
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"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
Alexis de Tocqueville |
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ICBM
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf” - George Orwell
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Fat Man and Little Boy.
For the win. Literally. |
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And her payload too
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Too bad they destroyed the tooling to make those. And many MANY other things we used to make
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SR-71, or one of the nukes, or aircraft carriers, or rockets, or... you name it
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"...Capitalism...shares its blessings unequally; ...Socialism...shares its miseries equally."
Winston Churchill |
Originally Posted By Frank_B: ...knowing that it had three million parts, each made by the lowest bidder. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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cbrooks - "Glocks are Rosie O'Donnell"
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[Last Edit: 1/13/2021 8:49:54 PM EST by xZ15]
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Originally Posted By SuperJanitor: Look how fast the Saturn V shed a few million pounds! https://i.ibb.co/L9hmMNf/Screenshot-2016-02-22-11-47-25.png View Quote |
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Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
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I always thought that the Thompson SMG was pretty cool, myself. Just saying.
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Originally Posted By Cincinnatus: The Dredge https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/285/81F4D09B-A677-43AF-A774-74217BBDE130-1778243.jpg Smoke belching beasts that dragged themselves across Alaska, chewing up earth in search of gold. View Quote My god did that thing get a look at Dolly Parton with her top off? |
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Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the trees.
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Not even straight down at full throttle with a tailwind
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To the everlasting glory of the infantry...
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Originally Posted By SuperJanitor: Look how fast the Saturn V shed a few million pounds! https://i.ibb.co/L9hmMNf/Screenshot-2016-02-22-11-47-25.png View Quote Jesus, 5 million pounds of fuel in 5 minutes‽ |
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[Last Edit: 1/13/2021 9:02:01 PM EST by BBFCM]
Originally Posted By MVolkJ: I'm just going to sit here and agree with you, OP. View Quote I was prepared to come in and argue that he’s wrong. I can’t do that. ![]() Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch Camera E-8 |
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It's time to get ill
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View Quote Good call OP. |
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When Americans act like Americans we manage to make the best stuff out there.
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P-38?
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[Last Edit: 1/13/2021 9:06:22 PM EST by jordanmills]
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Canceled because, Nazis....
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To this day the most powerful machine ever made by man
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Originally Posted By jordanmills: No, that's half the rate. It was about five million pounds in two and a half minutes. Twenty TONS per SECOND. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By jordanmills: Originally Posted By AhoogahLoop: Jesus, 5 million pounds of fuel in 5 minutes‽ No, that's half the rate. It was about five million pounds in two and a half minutes. Twenty TONS per SECOND. Plus, you can see the steep angle on the chart at about the time the SI-C booster was cut loose. |
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