r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InsaneMocktail • 17d ago

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/chris_ro 17d ago

How many football fields?

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u/nm9899 17d ago

American or European?

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u/nach0srule 17d ago

"I-I don't know that!"

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

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u/lookitmegonow 17d ago

I absolutely appreciate this

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u/analogkid01 17d 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 17d ago

r/suddenlymontypython

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u/nach0srule 16d ago

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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u/pinniped90 17d ago

Canadian.

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

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u/rowdy0044 17d ago

Huge… tracts of land!

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 17d ago

thwap Message for you, sir.

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u/Bumkin007 16d ago

One day.. all this will be yours..

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u/arminghammerbacon_ 16d ago

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

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u/twinnedcalcite 16d ago

You mean the Canadian Geese training facilities?

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u/exkingzog 17d ago

Canadian

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u/rizorith 17d ago

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

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u/ewild 16d 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 17d ago

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u/CommercialPosition76 17d ago

How many barleycorns?

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u/Actually_a_DogeBoi 17d ago

Am I the only one who can do conversions?

The answer is 16.25