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

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/iwantmisty Sep 08 '26

Horrifying. Moist soil, trees, food, fresh air and rains, animals, fish, insects, people, life. A few seconds of propulsion and there is nothing of that left, only the endless deathly void. We are so lucky to live

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u/MastermindX Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26

All life we know is contained in a thin layer of moisture that exists for a brief instant around a single grain of sand in the middle of the Sahara desert.