25 minutes ago !!

i hear my usual pack of trailer park rednecks --
-with their rusty pick-ups and their 12 packs --
all parked in front of my estate

but this time --they were even noisier than my conion !! :annoyed:

couldnt even concentrate on this important mission ---which was
to read these foolish "off-topic" posts you guys make here

so i ran outside to tell them to fk-off - :'-( :'-(

and just in time to watch this enormous ball of orange fire --
flying directly over my trailer

it was the atlantis space shot !!!!

I did see it on tv!! :ls-duel:

walkgirl --- the giant ball of fire flying around is an awesome scene --

but sometimes (RARELY) its scary --
because lots of us remember that they do explode !!

but mostly --its all good --like today

I missed it, was out hitting the thrift stores,

We have no rockets or so

but windmills and a church from 1049 AD

the only giant ball of fire i have ever seen from the sky was the huge meteorite i saw coming back from socal a few years ago.
its was massive green ball of light that sounded like a tie fighter as it passed over us.
the wierdest thing was watching it burn up in the atmosphere. it was really huge tho i mean i never experienced that before.

bill -- down here in florida --its a few times per year --
so its not the big crowds like the early days --
but is always a major thrill

ahardb0dy said:

I missed it, was out hitting the thrift stores,

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me too
pretty wild to have noise and orange fire? this far south from kss,pretty wild

redbenjoe said:

bill -- down here in florida --its a few times per year --
so its not the big crowds like the early days --
but is always a major thrill

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i gotta see me a rocket launch soon.

I launched a rocket the other day, but it was only a water-rocket, single-stage. Did it as part of Design-Make-Test project for the spacecraft flight module of my course. Was hilarious, the parachute failed to deploy and the payload (a raw egg) was smashed spectacularly. Happened to ~90% of the other launches on the day. Good job we haven't graduated yet

over here --that ... 'dont break the egg' experiment
is a part of many school science missions // projects