F Minus by Tony Carrillo for September 25, 2023

At the Wham-O Space Center.

And there’s nothing to cushion the noise.

Sorta farts as it picks up speed

i dare NOT ask where it goes…

Have heard a pulse jet?

https:/ /youtu. be/dSlDsup-aLI?si=tpmIzeV02q-7ed9w

FTF speed.

Whoopee for progress!

He who smelt it, propelt it.

The smell is an issue too

You have to pull the rocket’s finger to start it.

The “Pull My Finger to Launch” isn’t as cool as the traditional big red button.

Prooooot … sound of loud raspberry propulsion. This comment from a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic.

They came close, years ago. Scientists once tried using mercaptans (basically, skunk stink) as rocket fuel! One research project even developed a fuel molecule which smelled so foul that it attracted flies, and they ended up having to bury the samples to get rid of the stench.

Source: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants, by John Drury Clark. It’s a fascinating and quite fun read!

The sonic boom created is even worse…..

Farts are funny. They sound funny, they feel funny and they smell funny.Oh there are fart powered rockets now, thy use CH4.

wouldn’t sound any worse than some of the vehicles that pass my house every day – the obnoxious blasts of noise from inside(I think they call it music, but they got to be deaf it’s so loud even with their windows closed), vibrations of subwoofers that rattle all the windows and vibrate the walls, straight pipe blasts, putt-putt leaking exhausts systems, shock squeaking, etc. are enough to irritate a deaf dog, literal. most irritating after midnight.

Does it toot when it takes off?

They’ll be making whoopee at the factory.

Just imagine the sound it makes breaking the sound barrier.

Does it hit its target? That’s all that matters……

I dunno…I kinda like it!

NASA would set new attendance records for a Whoopee Rocket launch.

I once heard an air-compressor built around 1900. It sounded very flatulent.