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

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/Chrisnessbae6 Sep 08 '26

This is outstanding work for a University. I'm impressed and curious to see how their rocket evolves.

Off topic: Not to start a fight with anyone....

I've seen many clips similiar to this and I still can not understand why some people think the earth is flat.

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u/Content_Plantain_339 Sep 08 '26

Canada has a lot of bright minds. It's a shame they all get poached by US companies.
We need more R&D and end of the line manufacturing within Canada.
Sadly, the US for decades has convinced us that we should stick to extracting raw resources (lumber, oil, minerals) to sell to them cheaply and leave the manufacturing and tech up to them to sell back to us at a mark up.
I believe was intentionally structured post WW2 to make Canada more reliant on the US.
With the current political environment, we need to develop and modernize and make up for the decades lost in order to catch up to the other G7 countries. We're the only one that doesn't manufacture our own cars and products

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u/Tycoon004 Sep 08 '26

Most educated country on earth!