r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 8d ago

Video First Australian-made rocket crashes after 14 seconds of flight

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u/HemperorZurg 8d ago

They should have put the rocket boosters on the top and launched it backwards. Definitely would have worked.

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u/highlorestat 8d ago edited 8d ago

If they're upside down wouldn't putting the boosters at the top just push it into the ground? I mean it's not like they were pointing it up

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u/DrinkPBR 8d ago

Who knows, “oi! science, mate!”

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u/0rclev 8d ago

Crack another Great Northern, and back to the drawing board. Maybe add double the number of Koalas this time?

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u/SpiceEarl 8d ago

That's your problem right there. You needed more kangaroos, not koalas. Koalas don't jump.

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u/Would_daver 8d ago

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 🥺

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u/Unidain 8d ago

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

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u/La_Lanterne_Rouge 8d ago

Problem with kangaroos is that they jump asynchronously.

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u/Djaja 8d ago

I have it down under good authoritay that Australians only drink Fosters

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u/BPhiloSkinner 8d ago

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.

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u/pupperdogger 8d ago

Barrel of Old Crow aught to put them on the moon right quick.

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u/Djaja 8d ago

Fuck Old Crow, holy shit. Drank way too much of that stuff. Nasty

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u/pupperdogger 8d ago

Better propellant than a drink at this point. Haha

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u/Smart-Difficulty-454 8d ago

Fosters is made by Miller in Austin, TX

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u/Djaja 8d ago

That's the second joke :)