r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InsaneMocktail • Sep 08 '26

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/Pretend_Guarantee280 Sep 08 '26

Great, now I gotta go home and rewatch October Sky

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u/JewcieJ Sep 08 '26

Look at it go, Homer. This one's gonna go for miles.

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u/Consonant Sep 08 '26

Back when you had to physically rent movies my siblings and I would always get something stupid and my mom would get something artsy and shit.

That was one of em and it changed my life lol.

Love that fuckin movie.

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u/Truth_Seeker_456 Sep 10 '26

Hey, How it changed your life? Love to hear the story.

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u/Consonant Sep 10 '26

I would love to say OH I WORK FOR NASA NOW! Alas this is not the case, but it sparked my utter fascination with rockets and space.

We are in such an amazing timeline of landmarks in the cosmos and with the state of certain things space really helps me tune a lot of it out.

I (probably) bored the hell out of most of my team with my giddyness about the JWT launch updates at work, but when I started showing them the results of that fucking incredible success story and explaining just the....magnitude of what they were seeing and their reactions. It's just cool.

My brother's kids tho them mufuckas going to space mark my words.

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u/NoConfusion9490 Sep 09 '26

It says 'No Homers.' We're allowed to have one.

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u/Dansocks Sep 09 '26

Rocket Boys

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u/3381024 Sep 09 '26

October Sky .. Is that the movie about that NASA guy who inadvertently caused an incoming intern to lose her internship at NASA

(great movie)

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u/Internecivus-raptus Sep 15 '26

I second that. One good movie worth watching again and again.