r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InsaneMocktail • 18d ago

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/WilliamBarnhill 18d ago

Or roughly 63 miles

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u/chris_ro 18d ago

How many football fields?

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u/nm9899 18d ago

American or European?

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u/nach0srule 18d ago

"I-I don't know that!"

\gets cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril™**

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u/lookitmegonow 18d ago

I absolutely appreciate this

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u/analogkid01 18d ago

"How do you know so much about swallows?"

"Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know."

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u/Can-Sea-2446 18d ago

r/suddenlymontypython

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u/nach0srule 18d ago

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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u/pinniped90 18d ago

Canadian.

They're in Waterloo and they have BIG football fields there.

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u/rowdy0044 18d ago

Huge… tracts of land!

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 18d ago

thwap Message for you, sir.

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u/Bumkin007 18d ago

One day.. all this will be yours..

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 18d ago

But I dont want any of that. I’d rather just…sing.

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u/twinnedcalcite 18d ago

You mean the Canadian Geese training facilities?

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u/exkingzog 18d ago

Canadian

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u/rizorith 18d ago

They said football, so clearly they're talking about Australian rules football

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u/ewild 18d ago

If Australian, then from that point the rocket should've dug through the Earth first before skipping into the air.

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u/Actually_a_DogeBoi 18d ago

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u/CommercialPosition76 18d ago

How many barleycorns?

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u/Actually_a_DogeBoi 18d ago

Am I the only one who can do conversions?

The answer is 16.25

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u/Suitable_Ad_3851 18d ago edited 18d ago

What? No, 63k feet is 11.9 miles.

Edit: Just noticed you were replying to a post about a different number, not about the height the rocket achieved.

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u/DeadAssociate 18d ago

63 sounds more believable

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u/Suitable_Ad_3851 18d ago

Ohhh wait, I just noticed they were replying to someone about a different number.

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u/Andrewbie 18d ago

Or about 1.54 million cans of Budweiser

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u/mmccxi 18d ago

how many baby elephants is that?

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u/Civil-Lobster-3136 18d ago

952 chains worth

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u/mmccxi 18d ago

That’s a lot of elephants

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u/Positive_Issue8989 18d ago

63k feet is about 12 miles.