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Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy

Posted by timothy on from the yeah-it's-got-a-hemi dept.

nick-bts writes "CNN, the BBC and Space.com are reporting the first successful launch of the new Boeing Delta-4 Heavy, capable of lifting 23 tonnes into a low-Earth orbit (similar to the space shuttle). Personally I think the Ariane 5 and 'Satan' are way sexier..."

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  1. I agree with the poster... by odano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who cares how much weight a rocket can lift into space? If it isn't sexy, it ain't getting my business.

    I'll just take my satellites to russia.

  2. Delta-9 by thmclean · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for the Delta-9. That would be waaay more heavy, dude.

    1. Re:Delta-9 by KrancHammer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, well the Delta-Burke beats 'em all.

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    2. Re:Delta-9 by Too+Much+Noise · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hah! that's thinking small - I'm waiting for a rocket that will launch Earth into ...

      Oh, wait ...

  3. Damn... by SwedeGeek · · Score: 1, Funny

    Guess my mother-in-law is going to be here for Christmas afterall. :(

  4. Sexier??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally I think the Ariane 5 and 'Satan' are way sexier...

    Man, you have a wierd phallic fetish going on there.

  5. You need to get out more by stubear · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Personally I think the Ariane 5 and 'Satan' are way sexier..."

    I think the nick-bts needs to get out more.

  6. Big Rocket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Personally I think the Ariane 5 and 'Satan' are way sexier...
    I think you just have rocket envy.
  7. Which runway?? by KE1LR · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anyone who's spent time listening to air traffic control radio near a major airport has certainly heard large aircraft identify themselves as " heavy" so my first thought was that "Delta 4 Heavy" sounded like a 747 instead of a rocket.

  8. Proof left as an exercise for Google by Tackhead · · Score: 3, Funny
    So I read the headline:

    "Boeing Successfully Launches Mammoth Delta-4 Heavy"

    Of course, for every stupid, bizarre, or just plain wonky idea, there already exists at least a semi-serious proponent. Proof is left as an exercise for Google

    From the second Google hit on "mammoth wooly rocket", I quote:

    Flight at mach 3.0 from rocket booster in the rump, electric beams from tusks, missiles come from the two nostrils of the trunk

    It gets weird after that.

  9. I know some women... by _PimpDaddy7_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    who'd love these rockets :)

  10. "Satan is sexier..." by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Satan is sexier..."

    Yeah...good luck getting funding for your "Satan" rocket from the current crop of "values" politicians in Congress.

    Tell the marketing guys to try "Sword of Jesus" instead; you'll be in like Ron Jeremy.

  11. bad pun by cube_slave · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the CNN article:
    "America has a lot riding on this," [Col. Mark Owen] said.

    So to speak...

  12. Re:Saturn 5 vs. Delta 4 Heavy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well, give 'em a control lever in the capsule then.

    Just don't connect it to anything.

  13. Sing along with me by Jiggily · · Score: 2, Funny

    23 Tons And Whatta Ya Get? Another Day Older, And Deeper In Debt....

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  14. Re:But is there any tolerance for error? by terrymr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Premature shutdown of an engine is usually a polite way of saying it exploded.

  15. Re:NOT successful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perl harbor

    Yup, this is Slashdot alright ;-)