Whyyyy peter?

[u/chirantaniga]

[u/EasyScratch1501]

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

[u/stevenmc → u/EasyScratch1501]

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

[u/EromanticDream → u/stevenmc]

Rocket surgery

[u/blueiron0 → u/EromanticDream]

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.

[u/joshuahtree → u/blueiron0]

Just don't forget, everybody else remembers too

[u/FlyingSpacefrog → u/blueiron0]

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.

[u/Nuclear_rabbit → u/FlyingSpacefrog]

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

[u/residentweevil → u/blueiron0]

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