B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 06, 2023

Mr. Wrenchmuller did a lot better than that.

There are lunatics who do it with anvils.

And others who are nearby when it goes up.

They eventually improved to the point where we now have a moon.

NASA = Not A Space Agency

Project Orion, the early years.

NASA in BC? Who knews.

Doing better than NASA these days.

Neolithic Airborne Stone Agency.

They’re ahead of SpaceX. It didn’t explode right after launch. And it only cost them 200 anachronism points.

Glad there wasn’t a misfire and the rock landing on one of them…

TV technology and space exploration went hand-in-hand.

I recall watching the Mercury missions which essentially used a not too updated version of the V-2 rocket. I kept watching all the way through Apollo. Both the Atlas rocket and Saturn V looked about 4 inches tall on my small screen TV. In reality, the Saturn V was about 4 times bigger.

Well, back in the day, that was the extent of our space achievements.

You have to give NASA engineers a lot of credit for forwarding thinking. Voyager 2 is decades old but still communicating (after the ‘shout’) realigned the antenna!

That was a pretty good first attempt. I mean, no one was hurt and the device survived intact. I dare say it is reusable. Well done team.

I’ll wait until after Halloween when they shoot leftover pumpkins out of carbide cannons

If they keep it up, they’ll have a giant ship lifted into space with nuclear bombs. Just in time for the arrival of the space elephants.

(Footfall)

Stoned again!

I did not think of NASA when I saw this, not until I saw the sign, though I worked for them for 30+ years. What I thought about was a day 78 years ago today. On that day we unleashed hell, lost a piece of our humanity and changed the world forever.

Does Alfred Nobel know about this? (He invented dynamite in case you didn’t know)

I use to do that with train torpedoes. Well, once.

My Grandfather showed me how to split logs with black powder ……. it was interesting and fun …… :)

They left the women out of STEM here. Business as usual. The Fat Broad could have thrown that rock up that high.

As a boy in the ‘50s, I did the same thing with tin cans and cherry bombs. Didn’t want to destroy the can, so no M80s.

a rock rocket

So, I’m assuming there is a coyote under that rock.

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The acme company strikes again.

“Gotta start somewhere.”

Then start with NACA (“National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics”) which is where we started in 1915 before it was reformed into “National Aeronautics and Space Administration” in ’58 as we moved from exploring the sky to exploring the heavens.

So that’s how Wile’s rocks defy physics, they’re not the same rocks.

ANACHRONISM