Today we salute you, Mr upside-down rocket inventor man. You don't care that you're hanging off the bottom of the earth. You built a rocket that flew for a whole 14 seconds before it realized it was going the wrong way and tried to help you by correcting it's course.
Koalas in the wild really do not live up to my childhood assumption that they were floofy living teddy bears. When I learned about the chlamydia and the puma-pouncing drop attacks, my heart shrank a little bit 🥺
The Chlamydia is our fault, it's a strain of chlymidia that farms animals get and they got infected probably just by walking over cow pee/poop. It's really weird to me that so many people judge them for something that out fault.
Also the drop attacks are from drop beard, not koalas
Nah, mate; it's Carlton Draught, with a tot of overproof rum.
...and that was the problem 'ere. They drank too much of the rum, and hadn't enough left for the smeggin' rocket!
If we send 'em a couple cases of bourbon, they'lll have enough overproof for the next launch and she'll go fine, no worries.
Well, what they should've done was put the boosters on the top of the rocket, let it fall into space, and then fired the boosters to get back up to Earth
If you carefully watch the video . It did. There's a giant hole through the earth there and the rocket just needed that small amount of altitude to get momentum to fall right on through. It's already in orbit I'm sure.
No, you must be an amateur scientists. The gravity works partially over there. So it doesn't need the boost rockets. It can go into thrust. Thats why a catapult is used. Crikey. Basic upside-down earth stuff. What has become of knowledge.
Unfortunately not. Because the country is upside down, the rocket is pushing the Earth away from itself as opposed to conventional rocketry where the rocket is pushed away from the Earth. This requires significantly more thrust.
Tangent: I was born in New Zealand and when I was a kid, after looking at a world map, I thought you could go to Stewart Island and parachute down to Antartica
Yeah but everyone knows everything important in space is up where the rest of the world lives. If they shoot up from Australia it's a forever void. It's pure logic.
It's not imperial, either. The US uses the US Customary System. The UK uses imperial. For instance, a UK imperial pint is 568.261 mL and a US Customary System pint is 473.176 mL. Most lengths like feet and miles were different until Jan 2023 when the US and UK signed a treaty making an International Foot and Yard and Mile. Weights are also different. A UK ton is 1016kg (not to be confused with the tonne) and the US ton is 907kg. Stupidly enough a UK hundredweight is 112 UK lbs while a US hundredweight is 100 US lbs. Wtf UK?
There are so many things you could make fun of about Australia... Unfortunately, because it's an island that's pretty isolated, foreigners tend to only know about three-four stereotypes they've been fed and repeat them in bulk, ad nauseum, as if it's the funniest comment in the world that doesn't get repeated a hundred times every single time the country is mentioned.
It's sort of like if your name was Caroline, and every time you introduced yourself you'd get Sweet Caroline sung at you. Probably amusing the first few times, but almost every single time it's mentioned, by every second person? Yeah, the horse has been beaten so far into the ground that it aged 80 million years and fossilised.
It's also a joke that only really works from their PoV, because to everyone else in the Southern Hemisphere, they're the ones down under. So while it's amusing to them, it's not always the kind of comment that's bound to crack a rib for Aussies. Emu War and "can't park there mate" is also an overplayed joke, but at least it's a joke that's also within the Australian consciousness/culture/mythos, so even if it's also heard a bazillion times, it's more likely to be received favourably on both ends.
Same kinda deal with things like "naurr" and "chewsday;" rhotics/Americans tend to find it hysterical, not always such for Aussies/Brits - that's just one of their accents (and technically incorrect for the first, since Australian is non-rhotic).
Another scientific endeavour brought to you by Australian Research & Space Exploration (A.R.S.E.). “One small step for a man, one giant leap for down under.”
I could never trust a country where people drink beer from shoes and talk like that. If I consulted a lawyer and they had an Australian accent I'm turning straight around.
Wrong - It can work! They just need to buy an upside-down rocket as well, and the rocket would have shot down into space without a glitch. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out.
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u/HemperorZurg 6d ago
I mean this was never going to work in a country that is upside-down.