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Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:29 am
by Killer Wolf
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -22866628/
"after officials stalled lift-off to avoid a mystery object in its flight path." ! wonder what it was!
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:41 am
by JensAyton
“One of the largest rockets ever built”? A Delta IV Heavy has a little over a third of the launch mass of a Shuttle, and less than a quarter of a Saturn V’s. All right, there have only been four classes of superheavy launch system, but that’s still a bit misleading.
Oh wait, it’s the Mirror. Never mind.
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:44 am
by Commander McLane
A russian spy satellite spying on the launch of the american spy satellite?
Either that, or the launch site was just rolling under the resident Coriolis.
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:59 am
by Cody
Commander McLane wrote:
A russian spy satellite spying on the launch of the american spy satellite?
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:36 pm
by DaddyHoggy
El Viejo wrote:Commander McLane wrote:
A russian spy satellite spying on the launch of the american spy satellite?
One of my favourite games ever (on the C64 - split screen joy!)
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:37 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Ahruman wrote:“One of the largest rockets ever built”? A Delta IV Heavy has a little over a third of the launch mass of a Shuttle, and less than a quarter of a Saturn V’s. All right, there have only been four classes of superheavy launch system, but that’s still a bit misleading.
Oh wait, it’s the Mirror. Never mind.
Good to see their renowned journalistic prowess has reached even Sweden...
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:46 pm
by Cody
DaddyHoggy wrote:El Viejo wrote:Commander McLane wrote:
A russian spy satellite spying on the launch of the american spy satellite?
One of my favourite games ever (on the C64 - split screen joy!)
Ha... I didn't even know it was a game. I remember it from
Mad magazine... a must-read from the sixties.
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:52 pm
by DaddyHoggy
Re: Rocket
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:08 pm
by Cody
I wish I'd known about that... I had an old Apple II for a while in the eighties.
It was/is? a brilliant cartoon strip... no words, just great drawings, and occasionly you got Spy vs Spy vs Spy, introducing a 'femme fatale' element.
Drawn by a Cuban artist, I think.
Re: Rocket
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:31 am
by Killer Wolf
tch, thread hijack >:-/
Re: Rocket
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:46 am
by DaddyHoggy
But of course - this one didn't even make it to the end of the first page...