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Last Titan Launch from Florida

Posted by timothy on from the old-new-stock dept.

The Breeze writes "Driving along San Diego's freeways, I often passed a large Lockheed Martin facility that had big ATLAS and TITAN logos on them - it looked like it was still operating, even though I thought the Titan missile had been retired years ago. Well, according to CNN, the last Titan to be launched from Florida just took off with a classified military payload. I had no idea that they were still using 50-year old technology to launch stuff into space. If you are not adverse to MS Word documents, Patrick AFB, (the Air Force station at Cape Canaveral) has some press releases about the launch. Interested parties might want to click here for more info on Titan, along with links to the Titan Missile Museum where you can actually see a Titan in a silo -- and where Zeframe Cochrane launched his first warp ship from."

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  1. Remember? by SethD · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does this make me think of "Remember the Titans?"

  2. 50 year old missles, 50 year old UIs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The majority of Slashdot readers refuse to evolve from the commandline.. why expect anything else from other geeks using other technology?

  3. Launched? by brycef · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...and where Zeframe Cochrane launched his first warp ship from."

    No. It's where Zeframe Cochrane WILL launch his first warp ship from. Get your facts straight.

  4. Re:That "Titan 2" site makes my eyes cry... by goneutt · · Score: 2, Funny

    These arent tears, we are puking through our eyeballs.

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  5. Future tense... by Bender0x7D1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know that it can be tough to know what tense to use given that there was a temporal cold war and all that, but it should be:

    where Zeframe Cochrane will launch his first warp ship from.

    and not:

    where Zeframe Cochrane launched his first warp ship from.

    Then again...
    if you were there when it happened before, but in the future, then I guess you could use the past tense.

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  6. Re:Not so outdated by NardofDoom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah! You kids and your hammers! When I was your age we used a rock. we just picked it up and bashed away. Sure, we bruised our knuckles and cut our hands, but we didn't complain. We liked it!

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  7. You are hardcore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sobering to be poking through a device designed to land 9 Megatons on the Ruskies.

    Wow... that's hardcore. When I have to sober up, I just drink coffee. ;)