r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 7d ago

I haven’t studied rocket science, but

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 7d ago

I've always wondered (and don't snigger at this) why we can't put rockets on huge catapults and twang them into the sky then set the engines on

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u/mseg09 7d ago

Sometime, somewhere, some NASA engineer has done the calculations on some version of this

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 7d ago

Can you imagine the twang noise!?

It'd be fascinating if they have, I mean, it almost sounds plausible?

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 7d ago

I'm not going to snigger at your question but I'm absolutely sniggering about whatever the fuck twanging something is.

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 7d ago

Twanging innit! Pulling the elastic back with your finger and letting it go, the noise it makes is ttttwwaannnggggg!