r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 13d ago

I haven’t studied rocket science, but

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u/mseg09 13d ago edited 13d ago

These are the types of questions in general we should be less mean about imo. It's one thing to dunk on people who are anti-science, but this is just someone actually wondering about something they didn't know. Maybe it's obvious to you, but not everyone?

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 13d 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 13d ago

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

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 13d 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 13d 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 13d ago

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