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06-07-2008, 12:33 AM
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The future is unwritten
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June 7, 2008: Flying Bricks
You may or may not have seen the news story , about the June 2nd launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, doing "unprecedented damage" to the launch pad.
This picture was supposedly taken by an amateur photographer/tourist, but it looks like it was taken from a position a lot closer than they allow tourists, to me. Anyway, it clearly shows the debris (pieces of brick and concrete), from the flame trench, raining down on the water.  photo credit ~ Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now
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06-07-2008, 01:02 AM
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The Sheriff of Nothingland
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thats why people arent allowed near there. isnt that why?
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something we both can enjoy?? 
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06-07-2008, 01:11 AM
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That's not a normal occurrence. People aren't allowed closer in case the sumbitch blows up on the pad.
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06-07-2008, 01:36 AM
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If bricks could fly . . .
. . . they'd be brickbats.
Must be the site's June theme. |
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06-07-2008, 03:22 AM
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Recipe for cauliflower cheese anyone?
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06-07-2008, 05:32 AM
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06-07-2008, 06:10 AM
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06-07-2008, 07:29 AM
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I wonder if they'll think to finance the repairs by selling the bricks on eBay.
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06-07-2008, 10:27 AM
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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06-07-2008, 11:44 AM
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Why aren't they allowed to do that? Government surplus auction.
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06-07-2008, 11:49 AM
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I saw an Authentic Piece of the Berlin Wall in a small box at a garage sale recently. Tempted but resisted. For all I know, it was actually one of the concrete kibbles from the NASA photo.
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06-07-2008, 12:43 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Boat?
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06-07-2008, 01:30 PM
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That could be, if the pads are those circles out near the open water.
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06-07-2008, 02:49 PM
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To shreds, you say?
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Damn, Bruce gets all the best classified photos!
Alternate caption for the thread pic: "You deserve a brick today."
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06-07-2008, 03:18 PM
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still says videotape
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What's that? Looks like the bricks hit an endangered manatee...
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