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Christmas Tree Rocketry

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Love the music by radiumsoup · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Post-battle FF7 music, made me smile. :) /nerds are awesome

    1. Re:Love the music by ThePhilips · · Score: 2

      Video taken down by "copyright owners" in 3... 2... 1...

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  2. Bambi Meets Godzilla by MDMurphy · · Score: 2

    The build up and payoff was about as satisfying as "Bambi Meets Godzilla"

  3. How is this recycling? by jfdavis668 · · 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 · · 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.

  4. Re:On the twelfth day of Christmas.. by Jason+Levine · · 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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