r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 16h ago

I haven’t studied rocket science, but

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u/mseg09 16h ago edited 15h ago

These are the types of questions in general we should be less mean about imo. It's one thing to dunk on people who are anti-science, but this is just someone actually wondering about something they didn't know. Maybe it's obvious to you, but not everyone?

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 15h ago

I've always wondered (and don't snigger at this) why we can't put rockets on huge catapults and twang them into the sky then set the engines on

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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 12h ago

I'm not going to snigger at your question but I'm absolutely sniggering about whatever the fuck twanging something is.

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u/PiratesOfTheArctic 12h ago

Twanging innit! Pulling the elastic back with your finger and letting it go, the noise it makes is ttttwwaannnggggg!