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We made a bacon rocket! Rocket Science and Bacon Science, 2 disciplines at the pinnacle of human achievement, finally united!
*EDIT* I've whacked an mp3 of the Bacon Rocket song up due to popular demand - you can grab it here if you like.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:33, Reply)
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I have no bacon in the house. Otherwise I would make one too, though would try not to shoot it through the window.. :)
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:38, Reply)
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that i feel future experiments would of course be increasingly succesful, but I have been banned from all further rocketry
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:40, Reply)
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is a part of modern day salad, and that has been proved good for you. Therefore, ignoring rockets is bad for your health and discriminatory. Fact.
may in fact, not be fact.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:44, Reply)
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Now's the perfect time to work on your Internal Hambustion Engine.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:03, Reply)
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you have no bacon in the house because you have just eaten it all, and this afternoon you are shopping for more.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:50, Reply)
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And would buy more later but am ill today so not going anywhere. :(
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:52, Reply)
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Lesson learned there: always keep a bag of Frazzles for emergencies such as this.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:55, Reply)
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Frazzles give you bacony burps for at least a year as well.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:02, Reply)
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in the name of pork ballistics.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:39, Reply)
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the pork mortar and ham cannon have both had to go on the back burner now though, unfortunately
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:41, Reply)
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all those bills for window glass must add up ;)
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:42, Reply)
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( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:44, Reply)
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Custard should only ever be made as one step on the road to ice-cream.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:52, Reply)
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That's
:)
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:41, Reply)
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to my mum. it was a sad, sad outcome.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:44, Reply)
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but the toast guidance fins. Bread has no place in aeronautical design. Fact.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:50, Reply)
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current thinking is that eggy fried bread is aerodynamically sound, but the correct mix is essential.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 14:53, Reply)
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but i am definitely willing to believe that the cause was stresses attributable to the toast fins
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:02, Reply)
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and what with you being in your wife's bad books, you'll not have time for anymore pork based projectiles...
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:31, Reply)
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Is this just the tester until you do a massive one made from plate gammon steaks ?
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:19, Reply)
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but I've been comprehensively banned by my wife.
I pointed out that if Werner von Braun had been grounded every time he'd fired a rocket-propelled sausage through his living room window, then man would never have reached the moon, but for some reason my protestations fell on deaf ears
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:22, Reply)
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that sometimes a man-pad up the flaptrack is enevitable. It won't help, but it is a lovely phrase to use in context.
EDIT: To de-RIS. A MANPAD is a type of Surface to Air Missile, a flap track is part of the wing of an aircraft. The two came together a few years ago when I was working for the firm that built the 'plane, and the phrase was born. It always made me giggle like a schoolgirl but I so rarely can bring it into conversation.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:31, Reply)
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He was on the phone to someone. I'm assuming they wern't having a bacon conversation.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:20, Reply)
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With you within 30 secs of your order!
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 15:23, Reply)
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I would recommend firing rockets outside in a park or on a moor or something...
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 16:17, Reply)
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for obvious reasons. hey ho.
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 16:21, Reply)
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Clearly they failed aerodynamically, you should have buttered them up on both sides to reduce friction :)
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 16:58, Reply)
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but yeah it was a bit painful not eating it. it smelt SO GOOD when it was cooking I had real trouble not just devouring the whole thing
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 17:29, Reply)
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Its perfectly obvious, you're wasting good bacon all the time :(
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:02, Reply)
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WHAT AN AWFUL THING TO ACCUSE ME OF! BACON IS MY LIFE! I LOVE BACON! I AM NOT A BACON-HATER! I LOVE BACON SO MUCH IT HURTS! BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON BACON
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 18:04, Reply)
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Methinks the bacon-hater doth protesteth tooth mucheth
( , Tue 2 Mar 2010, 19:16, Reply)
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one of the several aspects of the experiment which didn't go down well with my long-suffering spouse.
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( , Wed 3 Mar 2010, 15:56, Reply)
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Also, your garden and the outside of your house looks almost identical to Simon Pegg's in Shaun of the Dead.
( , Fri 5 Mar 2010, 17:39, Reply)
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sums up the whole thing for me.
Take a bow sir
( , Fri 5 Mar 2010, 21:05, Reply)
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Nothing instills fear in the taliban like self propelled bacon.
( , Fri 5 Mar 2010, 21:45, Reply)
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you sir are a fucking legend.
those motors look a bit mental i think i might invest in a few of those, full english flying saucer anyone ?
( , Fri 5 Mar 2010, 23:13, Reply)
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Reminds me of the salami powered rocket as seen on Mythbusters. Now you know why they go to the desert to launch them at least.
( , Sat 6 Mar 2010, 1:10, Reply)
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A victory for SCIENCE.
( , Sat 6 Mar 2010, 10:45, Reply)
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For reasons I can't explain, two Jewish mates of mine are in love with this and want to build one to fire at family events.
( , Mon 8 Mar 2010, 0:48, Reply)
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This must be your best thing ever! That ending is brilliant!
(after the ben goldacre song, of course)
( , Tue 9 Mar 2010, 5:57, Reply)