I've recently started to develop a geeky/pedantic issue with that phrase...Rocket science, to my mind, is essentially just Newton's laws of motion, with a bit of thermodynamics chucked in.
Rocket engineering on the other hand, is where it gets interesting.
/anorak
(Rocket engineering on the other hand, is where it gets interesting.
/anorak
barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:15,
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So you're essentially, you're saying is that rocket science isn't brain surgery?
An Eagle in Your Mind,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:19,
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Oh come on it's not like brain surgery is a cure for cancer or anything.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:21,
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Rocket surgery gives you brain cancer?Ring the Daily Mail!
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Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:30,
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Some rocket fuels are carcinogenic.
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:31,
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I've used that for yearsIf someone says to me (who straight away I think is a cunt) 'It's not rocket science' I patiently explain that, actually, rocket science is dead easy, it's all mass and thrust (ooh er) and suggest to them that next time they want to point out that something is not as complicated as something that is complicated, they use they phrase 'It's not quantum electrodynamics'.
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Brandy_Bumwinkle,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:26,
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Well, it's hardly brain surgery, is it?(
Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:33,
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I love the idea that rocket science is 'dead easy'!
Fucking priceless - thanks for that.
(Fucking priceless - thanks for that.
blyerkit e k trilby,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:53,
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Quantum electrodynamics itself isn't rocket science, you knowTry quantum chromodynamics, that's a bit nastier
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boris the spider,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 12:59,
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i do relativity for a livingi don't need anything nastier thanks
though there used to be a big christian science library up the road from where i lived in portsmouth. i was always tempted to go in, but i was scared of being attacked or brainwashed. or both.
(though there used to be a big christian science library up the road from where i lived in portsmouth. i was always tempted to go in, but i was scared of being attacked or brainwashed. or both.
boris the spider,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 13:11,
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OK - where's my Kagool..?acceleration = force / mass
This IS rocket science (if you're not travelling at a significant fraction of c)
Look carefully at my original statement, and I think you'll see that I'm still right.
:P
(This IS rocket science (if you're not travelling at a significant fraction of c)
Look carefully at my original statement, and I think you'll see that I'm still right.
:P
blyerkit e k trilby,
Fri 17 Feb 2012, 13:02,
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