Christmas Tree Rocketry

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Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 31, 2012 @03:17AM from the tree-launch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's after Christmas, so what do you do with your Christmas tree? Turn it into a missile, of course! From the creators of 'Christmas Tree Rocketry: The Art and Science of Holiday Recycling' (video) comes a new epic: the flight of the XMS MissileToe."

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Love the music by radiumsoup · 2012-12-31 03:33 · Score: 3, Interesting

Post-battle FF7 music, made me smile. :) /nerds are awesome
1. Re:Love the music by ThePhilips · 2012-12-31 04:16 · Score: 2
  
  Video taken down by "copyright owners" in 3... 2... 1...
  
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Post more articles like this by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 03:46 · Score: 0

Post more articles like this!
Happy New Year, and ... by jabberwock · 2012-12-31 03:55 · Score: 0

All your presents are belong to us!
I, for one by mordjah · 2012-12-31 03:59 · Score: 0

Welcome our new rocket-assisted Christmas tree overlords!

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I was by JustOK · 2012-12-31 04:13 · Score: 1

I was expecting more missile tow.

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On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by HJED · 2012-12-31 04:14 · Score: 1

It`s after Christmas,...
Um, no it's not there are twelve days of Christmas, it ends on the 5th of January!

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1. Re:On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by arth1 · 2012-12-31 05:33 · Score: 1
  
  Um, no it's not there are twelve days of Christmas, it ends on the 5th of January!
  20th day Yule is traditionally when the tree goes down in Fennoscandia. At this point, it's still being decorated with more bags of nuts and sweets.
2. Re:On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by Jason+Levine · 2012-12-31 05:41 · Score: 2
  
  Christmas begins on November 1st (when retailers toss aside the Halloween decorations for the Christmas ones), continues until January 1st (when they begin to focus on Valentine's Day), and makes a brief resurgence in July. Thus, Christmas has about 92 days and takes up a quarter of the year.
  
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3. Re:On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by sconeu · 2012-12-31 05:57 · Score: 1
  
  Where do you live? I started seeing some advertisements for Xmas just after Labor Day!!!!
  
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4. Re:On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by davester666 · 2012-12-31 07:13 · Score: 1
  
  Not anymore. They already will have some Christmas stuff out in September/October. The amount of Halloween stuff exceeds it until Nov 1, when all the Halloween shelves switch to Christmas stuff.
  
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5. Re:On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 09:01 · Score: 0
  
  on 12/24 my local store had Mardi Gras supplies out already. And no, it was not New Years supplies.
Bambi Meets Godzilla by MDMurphy · 2012-12-31 04:24 · Score: 2

The build up and payoff was about as satisfying as "Bambi Meets Godzilla"
1. Re:Bambi Meets Godzilla by jfdavis668 · 2012-12-31 05:19 · Score: 1
  
  I liked Bambi meets Godzilla. May the farce be with you.
lol by slashmydots · 2012-12-31 04:41 · Score: 1

Maybe he should have kept that tree around. It's still 351 days until Christmas and people already have all their lights and decorations up! Just look around. Christmas is starting super early this year!
Already known by another name... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 04:49 · Score: 0

The xmas-cet missile.
How is this recycling? by jfdavis668 · 2012-12-31 05:18 · Score: 3, Insightful

The tree is now just 100ft further out in a field. It didn't get turned into something useful.
1. Re:How is this recycling? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 05:38 · Score: 1
  
  I assure you the tree was briefly recycled into a short lived rocket decoration implement.
  The resulting waste might need to be recycled too but that's a new problem ;-)
2. Re:How is this recycling? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 06:53 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  The tree is now just 100ft further out in a field. It didn't get turned into something useful.
  
  On Dec 26th, every "Christmas Tree" got turned into "Last Year's Christmas Tree". A few days/weeks after that, every "Last Year's Christmas Tree" got turned into "Mulch".
  Unlike all the other trees that completed said transition, this tree had an intermediate stage, in which it got turned into something awesome.
3. Re:How is this recycling? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 07:18 · Score: 0
  
  It was 'recycled' as a rocket.
4. Re:How is this recycling? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 10:22 · Score: 1
  
  The tree is now just 100ft further out in a field. It didn't get turned into something useful.
  Sure it did. Now it's the neighbor's problem.
Reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 05:29 · Score: 0

When I was a teen my friends and I used to shoot bottle rockets at each other.
These guys would have destroyed us.
I think he meant.. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 06:05 · Score: 0

I think he meant "t.o.e missle."
Real recycling by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-31 06:08 · Score: 0

Take your tree to a mulching facility.
"new" ??? by Manuka · 2012-12-31 10:39 · Score: 1

For values of "new" approaching "posted 7 months ago".
Comment removed by account_deleted · 2012-12-31 13:44 · Score: 1

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One small problem by fufufang · 2012-12-31 17:56 · Score: 1

They still have to throw the tree itself away...