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

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/DiggWuzBetter Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26

Article about the launch and record: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/engineering/waterloos-student-rocketry-team-breaks-world-record

It’s a record for greatest altitude achieved by an amateur liquid bi-propellant rocket. The rocket achieved an altitude of 19.35 km (63,497 feet), which honestly is less than I would have guessed from this video. That’s roughly 2.2x the height of Everest (8.85 km above sea level), and to me it’s surprising that there’s a mountain nearly half this height, it just seems so insanely high in this video.

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u/Andrew_7032 Sep 08 '26

not just any mountain, we are talking about mount Everest here

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u/pumpkil Sep 08 '26

It's basically a mountain that starts on top of an already massive mountain(Himalayan plateau).

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u/Andrew_7032 Sep 08 '26

Not just any mountain, we are talking about mount Everest here.

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u/Gwanbulance Sep 08 '26

I always like to describe Mt. Everest as “the Mt Everest of mountains”.

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u/SwordfishOk504 Sep 08 '26

But how many football fields is it?

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u/sourcefourmini Sep 09 '26

At least four, I'd bet

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u/Skulder Sep 09 '26

One Mt Everest-sized football fields

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u/My_hairy_pussy Sep 09 '26

Crazy, when you put it like that...

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u/whistling_serron Sep 08 '26

The first time wasn't that funny but the second time broke me 😅

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u/Chilli-pepper-bean88 Sep 08 '26

We are doing what to Everest??

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u/Buttonball Sep 08 '26

Standby, we are now mounting…

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u/dicuino Sep 08 '26

It's basically a mountain...

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u/Andrew_7032 Sep 08 '26

Not just any mountain, we are talking about mount Everest here.

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u/JoeyDJ7 Sep 08 '26

are you a bot?

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u/Bucket_of_Spaghetti Sep 08 '26

Not just any bot. We’re talking about Mt Everest bot here.

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u/Andrew_7032 Sep 09 '26

Are you a bot? Or are you just crying?

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u/Ob1s_dark_side Sep 08 '26

The Mount Everest?