A camera with audio mounted on a solid rocket booster. The ride up takes the first 1′45″ – noisy and not much to look at, but still sorta cool. Then you fall back to earth and land in the ocean. While I’m sure they have better reasons for launching these things, I think the footage [...]
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Don’t get any better than this.
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Bucky’s boy done good.
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While the myopic incompetence of Bush the Younger may have put a particularly fine point on the dangers of conducting foreign policy with one’s head jammed completely up one’s ass, it is simply a fact that America has been fucking over Iran and Iraq with one cocked up moronic stumble after another since 1953.
No, George…they [...]
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The Rocket
They Tried to Teach My Baby Science!
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