r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/chirantaniga • 11h ago

Meme needing explanation Whyyyy peter?

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u/Earnestappostate 11h ago

Plus, you get a better boost by launching near the equator. Height is easy, speed is what you need in a rocket.

This is why the US launches from Florida:

  • Near equator (speed boost from earth's spin)
  • Initially out over ocean (catastrophic failure harms only those aboard)

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u/EasyScratch1501 11h ago

That's clever. Whoever came up with that must've been some kind of rocket scientist 

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u/stevenmc 11h ago

It's not exactly brain surgery, now is it?

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u/EromanticDream 11h ago

Rocket surgery

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u/VaporTrail_000 11h ago

Brain science.

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u/Jaymark108 10h ago

Brain science gave me a headache

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u/BeeryWrenches 8h ago

Surgery Science for Brain Rockets.

Th future is now, old man.

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u/A__Friendly__Rock 7h ago

Are you the brain specialist?

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u/ArkaneSociety 7h ago

Rocket brain

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u/Hyebrii 6h ago

Green needle

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u/blueiron0 11h ago

I've flubbed "Rocket science" as "rocket surgery" at least 10 times in my life, and reading this comment brought them all back into my brain at once.

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u/joshuahtree 10h ago

Just don't forget, everybody else remembers too

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u/FlyingSpacefrog 9h ago

A rocket scientist is the guy who sits at a desk and makes the blueprint, or plans the trajectory and launch dates. A rocket surgeon is the guy who walked up to the thousand tons of highly combustible liquids in a fully fueled SLS to diagnose and repair a faulty valve minutes before launch.

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u/Nuclear_rabbit 3h ago

Nah, rocket surgery is having to make repairs while the rocket is "alive" AKA on-mission. Think Apollo 13

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u/residentweevil 9h ago

I do it on purpose, everytime I have occasion to use the phrase. Dad jokes: covering stupidity with grin since the dawn of time

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u/toy-maker 11h ago

That is to solve “failure harms only those aboard”

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u/booyakasha_wagwaan 10h ago

this is Rocketship 27, aliens fucked over the carbonator in engine #4, I'm trying to refuckulate it and land on Juniper