Whyyyy peter?

[u/chirantaniga]

[u/rysy0o0]

It would cost a lot of money to haul all the rocket parts and fuel on top of a mountain

[u/Earnestappostate → u/rysy0o0]

Plus, you get a better boost by launching near the equator. Height is easy, speed is what you need in a rocket.

This is why the US launches from Florida:

• Near equator (speed boost from earth's spin)
• Initially out over ocean (catastrophic failure harms only those aboard)

[u/EasyScratch1501 → u/Earnestappostate]

That's clever. Whoever came up with that must've been some kind of rocket scientist 

[u/stevenmc → u/EasyScratch1501]

It's not exactly brain surgery, now is it?

[u/EromanticDream → u/stevenmc]

Rocket surgery

[u/VaporTrail_000 → u/EromanticDream]

Brain science.

[u/Jaymark108 → u/VaporTrail_000]

Brain science gave me a headache

[u/BeeryWrenches → u/Jaymark108]

Surgery Science for Brain Rockets.

Th future is now, old man.

[u/Embarrassed_Motor_30 → u/BeeryWrenches]

[u/A__Friendly__Rock → u/VaporTrail_000]

Are you the brain specialist?

[u/ArkaneSociety → u/VaporTrail_000]

Rocket brain

[u/Hyebrii → u/VaporTrail_000]

Green needle

[u/That-guy409 → u/VaporTrail_000]

Rocket brain science surgery

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[u/blueiron0 → u/EromanticDream]

I've flubbed "Rocket science" as "rocket surgery" at least 10 times in my life, and reading this comment brought them all back into my brain at once.

[u/joshuahtree → u/blueiron0]

Just don't forget, everybody else remembers too

[u/FlyingSpacefrog → u/blueiron0]

A rocket scientist is the guy who sits at a desk and makes the blueprint, or plans the trajectory and launch dates. A rocket surgeon is the guy who walked up to the thousand tons of highly combustible liquids in a fully fueled SLS to diagnose and repair a faulty valve minutes before launch.

[u/Nuclear_rabbit → u/FlyingSpacefrog]

Nah, rocket surgery is having to make repairs while the rocket is "alive" AKA on-mission. Think Apollo 13

[u/Tiny_Sheepherder2617 → u/Nuclear_rabbit]

Damn, I used to use rocket surgeon as a dis for people doing stupid or needlessly complicated shit. Now I have to come up with a new term because you just rewrote the definition for me.

[u/residentweevil → u/blueiron0]

I do it on purpose, everytime I have occasion to use the phrase. Dad jokes: covering stupidity with grin since the dawn of time

[u/toy-maker → u/EromanticDream]

That is to solve “failure harms only those aboard”

[u/booyakasha_wagwaan → u/EromanticDream]

this is Rocketship 27, aliens fucked over the carbonator in engine #4, I'm trying to refuckulate it and land on Juniper

[u/galstaph → u/EromanticDream]

Rocket surgery is actually a thing

That's one of the terms that rocket scientists refer to the act of separating parts of the rocket during launch

Got a solid rocket booster you need to abandon when it runs out of fuel? Rocket Surgery

Got a liquid fueled first stage you need to jettison when you get to MECO? Rocket Surgery

[u/218administrate → u/stevenmc]

One of my favorite skits.

[u/iwilldeletethisacct2 → u/218administrate]

That feeling when you already know what the punchline is and you're just waiting for the delivery.

[u/stupidillusion → u/iwilldeletethisacct2]

"Oh Jack, they keep you late at the space center?"

[u/bradpittisnorton → u/218administrate]

For the uninitiated.

[u/Idea_Ranch → u/bradpittisnorton]

OMG thank youuuuuu!!

[u/Docmaligno → u/stevenmc]

Is above

[u/ProudReaction2204 → u/stevenmc]

ben carson here..

[u/GR-O-ND → u/stevenmc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I