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Rocket Guy Getting Closer - But No Firm Launch Date

BoomZilla writes "Brian Walker, the self styled "Rocket Guy" is making excellent progress with his one-man booster. Project R.U.S.H. plans to launch Brian in to orbit 'sometime later this year'. Brian's site (http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket.html) has many excellent pictures of the rocket and launch site (his backyard!) under construction. This is certainly the real (if somewhat dangerous) deal." (And Napkin Art? Look here.) Update: 05/29 04:08 GMT by T : Brian Walker dropped a note to point out that his plan is actually for a sub-orbital flight 35 miles up, not Earth orbit.

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  1. asdf! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fourth Post!

    well, probably the seventh or so, by now.

  2. Rocket in my Pocket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Will you stop screaming?" I shouted over the shrill din holding her lover's head by the hair. "It's not like you loved him in the first place!" Her screaming was cut short when she started to choke on her vomit.
    Swinging his head to punctuate my sentence probably wasn't the best idea. Already my lucky Levis were soaked to the skin with gore and no amount of that protein Tide would get these stains out.
    A scrawny figure from the shadows whined with his hands on his hips, "Ugh. Can we, l ike, just start filming this already?"
    I grinned knowing my video opus would soon be complete. The first part of the video was already filmed with Malda saying defiantly at the camera, "My father was a linux user and I am a linux user" as we cut his throat with a broken motherboard. The rest was just having his severed head hanging as a warning to the linux using masses while a simple scroll stated our demands.
    "We demand boxes, not boxen, that are powerful and robust enough to take advantage of Microsoft's feature rich IIS, Windows 2000, XP and other fine Microsoft products. We demand a version of Windows that is not modularized because Windows is a single entity. As our beloved President Lincoln once said "A house divided will fall."
    Kathleen sobbed into her hands, she was rank with undigested twinkies and Szechuan beef. One could almost think she was pretty if you wiped away the blood from her cheeks, the dribble of yellow fluid on her chin, sucked out the five hundred pounds of fat and replaced the brain with the brain of someone who has the capacity to think outside the herd.
    The next day we FedEx'ed the video to CNN, FoxNews and MSNBC but none of them aired it and in fact sent them back saying, "This isn't news!"
    My outrage was beyond measure and I set about giving Hemos and Katz a nitric acid enema while shoving an electric sound up their respective urethras. Not even their cacophany of pain could assuage my bruised ego.
    Slashdot was still quiet, Michael and Timothy posting stories that were far more irrelevant as "News for Nerds" than were posted before. Every so often there'd be a post about "Where's Taco" or "Where's Katz? He is funny and insightful without being tedious!"
    Trollaxor.com was quiet, each of those anti-for-the-sake-of-being-anti trolls were still playing their masturbatory barbies by living out their gay fantasies with linux, OSX and their piece of shit lives. Not even a blip on the nerd radar.
    No one cared.
    The Holland Herald didn't even mention one of their prominent citizens was missing.
    My lucky Levis were still unwearable. When I squeezed the cold heartblood from Taco's excised pumper over them trying to tie-dye them it didn't work and the clots made everything sticky like a post-E3 gay orgy but without the stink of egg drop soup.
    So I turned on TMC and watched Sleeper while smoking a joint. What would you have done?

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