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Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch
pumpkinpuss writes "Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered unusual damage during the shuttle Discovery's blastoff Saturday. Pictures from a NASA source show buckled concrete and numerous concrete blocks or bricks, presumably from the flame trench, littering a road behind the pad."
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The shuttle shit a brick?
Given how scary space travel is, it's no surprise that the astronauts left behind a trail of bricks all over the pad.
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38A continues to beat on the ceiling with a broom and indicate that NASA should "[K]nock off that unholy racket!"
about 50 meters above the launch pad.
Looks like the ISS occupants got their new toilet parts just in the nick of time.
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.... that'll buff right out.
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That said, I still would not suggest using your home as an alternate shuttle launch site.
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No, the launch was effected. I watched it myself.
Or dip a dead rat into a vat of Liquid Nitrogen, and drop him into a watering dish!
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Scary! I looked at my Pyrex measuring cup. Its a hefty thing with lots of mass and lots of glass. I would seriously not want to make that thing mad. I am glad your wife is OK. Jim
I'm now confused; so did someone spit on the launch pad, drop their marbles on it, did a lightbulb shatter - or was it hit by a frozen rat?
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