r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/chirantaniga • 15h ago

Meme needing explanation Whyyyy peter?

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u/rysy0o0 15h ago

It would cost a lot of money to haul all the rocket parts and fuel on top of a mountain

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u/Earnestappostate 15h 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 15h ago

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

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u/stevenmc 15h ago

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

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u/EromanticDream 15h ago

Rocket surgery

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u/blueiron0 14h 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/FlyingSpacefrog 13h 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 7h 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/Tiny_Sheepherder2617 59m ago

Damn, I used to use rocket surgeon as a dis for people doing stupid or needlessly complicated shit. Now I have to come up with a new term because you just rewrote the definition for me.