You might be a rocket geek if...

[JERRYR708]

...if you got a happy feeling when you saw that this thread was moving again

Everybody is pushing and shoving the GEEK right out of this thread..NOT COOL...:-/

 

[blackbrandt]

When you can identify what club a person launched a rocket at from the pictures of the launch of the rocket.

 

[Woody's Workshop]

You spend more time building rockets than you spend at work.
And probably are looking at more rockets to buy 1/2 the time at work on your computer.

 

[nute]

This is the hardest part of the year for you because the grass doesn't need to be mowed, the leaves don't need to be raked yet, and there's no snow to shovel... How am I supposed to buy motors like this!

Nate

 

[blackbrandt]

When a new fab lab opens and you send them 40MB worth of files for parts you want cut.

 

[kathmorgan12]

You know you're a ricket geek when you see random objects and think how high you could launch them in the air! Yes I do do this all of the time.

 

[Rex R]

you should fit right in here, welcome aboard. I would suggest that you be carefull how you say that in public though...someone might want to fit you for an 'I love me jacket'.
Rex

 

[blackbrandt]

You know you're a ricket geek when you see random objects and think how high you could launch them in the air! Yes I do do this all of the time.

Ummm... that's a copy and paste of mine from like the first page of posts. Nice try XD

 

[Reinhard]

Ummm... that's a copy and paste of mine from like the first page of posts. Nice try XD

Another "Nice try"

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...-you-do-rocket-wise-today&p=474086#post474086
https://www.rocketryforum.com/showt...ou-do-rocket-wise-today&p=1515281#post1515281

It might be a little cynic, but half of the bots/spammer accounts in TRFs member directory can easily be spotted by having a female user name. This is pretty much the only upside to our rather one-sided demographic.

Reinhard

 

[justin_o_guy]

Is there a glossary of terms that are associated with rocketry? I read all that, but didn't even almost understand a good bit of it. Cato can't be good , how can anyone use a gallon of glue in a year? Are you rolling your own tubes?
I'm guessing CA is stupid glue, dang, working with that stuff is tricky. You know you pissed someone off when they sneak your eye drops out and fill it up with super glue.
And you might be a rocket geek if you hit the lottery and have a house built that looks like a rocket. You'd never tell someone you're going home. You'd say
I'm heading back to the pad. Wanna join me for launch?

 

[blackbrandt]

Oh Justin.....

I use a gallon of epoxy per year. CATO: Motor blows up. No bueno. Some of us roll our own tubes. Some of us (*raises hand*) just put on fillets that could hold the golden gate bridge together. CA.. super glue. Cyanoacrylate. Pretty sure it bonds only when it is a) a part you don't want bonded or b) your fingers. Prank played among a few people on here is switching the debonder bottle with more superglue. Also... when superglued to your workbench... the debonder will always be JUST out of reach. Scientific fact.



Hitting the lottery big time as a rocket nerd could be medically dangerous.

 

[K'Tesh]

Someone tells you about the rocket he lost 34 years ago, but he can't remember the name of it. He draws it on a napkin. Using that drawing and description you are able to correctly identify the rocket after consulting one Estes catalog... First try. (Yeah... that happened)

photo credit: John "boosterdude" Bergsmith

 

[blackbrandt]

When you do a dance of joy when a girl you're going out with expressed interest in going to a rocket launch sometime.....

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

...you realize you have a half dozen kinds of epoxy in the house and still don't regret ordering one more.

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

...You try to resurrect an old email account just for a decade old email containing specs from a defunct vendor.

 

[Rex R]

Matt: best ask her how many people she expects to find at a rocket launch. she might have something else in mind...in addition to rockets .
Rex

 

[fyrwrxz]

...You try to resurrect an old email account just for a decade old email containing specs from a defunct vendor.

now THAT'S funny! And sadly, I can relate. Heck, I wished i'd saved all my old compuserve e-mails!

 

[rc dude]

When you do a dance of joy when a girl you're going out with expressed interest in going to a rocket launch sometime.....

I need to get me one of those. Does Wildman sell them? :rofl:

 

[blackbrandt]

I need to get me one of those. Does Wildman sell them? :rofl:

Limited edition... not sold in stores.

 

[Rex R]

one might be able to find a lady of negotionable affection...
Rex

 

[blackbrandt]

I think the real kicker is she brought it up.

 

[blackbrandt]

If you keep digging this thread up so more people post funny stuff... -hint hint-

 

[fyrwrxz]

You find a 1/2" brass launch lug in your overnight kit when you open it at the motel your staying at for a launch. Happened to me in Vegas a few years ago. No idea how it got in there or what it went to except there were still fillets on it and some cardboard fuzz........

 

[Andy Greene]

thanks for the heads up blackbrandt - I shoulda known better.

When you pass ANY trash can that has tubes that " may" work and you grab em .

 

[TopRamen]

If you apply rocket building techniques and materials to everything, like repairing a toilet:wink:.:



The Tank was sweating, so I could not paint anything near the head, so a complete internal foaming insulation had to happen.:



Composite technology consumes my aspect for comprehending things the way they are, which to me feels broken in every way until the composites have been applied.

 

[dixontj93060]

Wow! A carbon fiber throne! Al Bundy would be drooling!

 

[AdAstraPerAspera]

Okay now I have to dig out the picture I have somewhere of the all CF toilet I saw once....

 

[H_Rocket]

I presume you have tried this since your re-work. Does the tank still hold enough water volume to flush properly?

 

[Incongruent]

You switched all your shower heads for scale models of the N-1 because there were about 30 water nozzles and it was conical-ish and gray and the temptation was too strong.
Now you're debating about connecting the shower head to the mains so you can make it do skywriting. "Just like the real thing."


You've had to dispute the claim that rockets are living things...
"Hey, Tony, Did you know that rockets are alive?"

"No, they're not."​

"But they can reproduce..."

"No they can't."​

"Then what are all those holes and pointy things for?"

""​

I walked myself into that one, didn't I?

 

[jd2cylman]

On the morning of your 50th birthday, you're reading TRF instead of something awesome or crazy... :eyeroll:

Adrian