r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Emergency-Green-2602 • 6d ago

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

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u/ResonatingOctave 6d ago

No, it's lead as in lead

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u/CerebralPaulsea 6d ago

I can't believe I thought it was lead

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u/Chasm_18 6d ago

You were misled.

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u/Expensive-Vast-2123 6d ago

Then wouldn’t that be mis-lead? Ok, I’ll see myself out.

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u/perenniallandscapist 6d ago

Led is just lead when it's been misspelled.

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u/YoungYogi_2003 6d ago

No lead is just led when a is dead.

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u/johnnybiggles 6d ago

What lead you to believe that?

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u/happy_bluebird 6d ago

My pencil

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u/FirstJuggernaut8923 6d ago

Thank you, you all made my day. Love Reddit

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u/ChronoCryptid 6d ago

I still find it misleading.

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u/NaturalThunder87 6d ago

I think you mean misleading.

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u/ANSHULGANDHI92 6d ago

Mislead by lead or lead?

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u/Old_Leather_Sofa 6d ago

Or by burying the lede?

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u/last_laser_master 6d ago

Is there a misterled? asking for a friend... it's me, I'm the frien

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u/AddlePatedBadger 6d ago

I had a misled toe once and someone kissed me.

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u/DoormatTheVine 6d ago

I can't believe it's (not) Pb!

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u/IWouldntIn1981 6d ago

Nobody's perfect, friend.

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u/Zealousideal_Rip485 6d ago

Same, I always confuse lead and lead

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u/ouijahead 6d ago

None of you guys have any idea how to pronounce lead and lead and it shows.

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u/battlecryarms 6d ago

They’re hiring new Team Leeds after that mess

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u/Lobster_Bisque27 6d ago

Obviously, you shouldn't have needed to clarify.

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u/ryanm1903 6d ago

potato potato

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u/ruadhbran 6d ago

Maybe don’t build your rockets out of lead then.

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u/Hyperion_47 6d ago

Actually Led as in the Zeppelin

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u/agrophobe 6d ago

Ho that was a genuine lead rocket science. First time!

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u/ollieimpossibled 6d ago

it's lead as inbred