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misk@sopuli.xyz to Offbeat · 6 months ago

Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese

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Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese

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misk@sopuli.xyz to Offbeat · 6 months ago
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Swiss students made history with Europe's first rocket hop test, but a slice of Gruyère almost turned it into a disaster.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18774034

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  • Sunshine (she/her)
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    The cheese was strapped before hand “for fun”

    • Prefeitura@lemmy.eco.br
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      I can’t fathom what kind of idiot would risk the whole project for the sake of the lamest “joke” ever and why the fuck everyone else just let this happen.

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        It was an un-Brie-lievably stupid risk.

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          It wasn’t a Gouda idea

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        At least it wasn’t a roadster

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    They were able to engineer and build a hopping propulsion system, but none of them realized the cheese would cause flight instability?

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      they didn’t realize the instability would be a huge issue for their rcs to overcome. in the end they actually learned more about the capabilities of their system because of the cheese!

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    Turns out Pinky wasn’t actually pondering what Brain was pondering.

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    “Europe’s most important rocket test” is quite an overstatement for a student project.

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    I especially like that they ate the cheese after the flight!

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    Nice work Gromit.

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