You might be a rocket geek if...

If your parents let, or rather tolerated, you putting an Estes Alpha on top of the Christmas tree instead of an angel.
(yes this really happened, although tolerated might have been a stretch:lol

nute said:

If your parents let, or rather tolerated, you putting an Estes Alpha on top of the Christmas tree instead of an angel.
(yes this really happened, although tolerated might have been a stretch:lol

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Probably figured it was better than letting you stick I C6-5 up the angel's butt. Somehow a pine branch is ok though. . .

If the shelf above your bed is dedicated solely to displaying your latest and greatest rocket.

(Guilty as charged:wink

when you have too much rockets on a self or on the floor and one fall and the whole shelf or all of them on the floor fall like dominoes

cruzsergio said:

when you have too much rockets on a self or on the floor and one fall and the whole shelf or all of them on the floor fall like dominoes

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You'd be surprised how loud that is at 6:00 in the morning
:y:

cruzsergio said:

when you have too much rockets on a self or on the floor and one fall and the whole shelf or all of them on the floor fall like dominoes

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Mine don't fall over because they're stacked in piles...

You see this light and start pondering how good a nose cone it would make.

rocketgeek101 said:

You see this light and start pondering how good a nose cone it would make.
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And it comes with a tube fin preattached!

You introduce your Wife as your "ground support team."

nute said:

And it comes with a tube fin preattached!

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You must be more of a rocket geek then me! Pity the light belongs to a hotel.... (Currently in Niagara Falls (or as I've decided Canada's version of Las Vegas) for my sisters dance competition) Otherwise I might actually just go and try to convert it into a rocket.

rocketgeek101 said:

You must be more of a rocket geek then me! Pity the light belongs to a hotel.... (Currently in Niagara Falls (or as I've decided Canada's version of Las Vegas) for my sisters dance competition) Otherwise I might actually just go and try to convert it into a rocket.

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Ooooh, how are the views from the canadian side?? We went there last year, but we didn't all have our passports so we wouldn't have been able to get back from Canada

Good luck to your sister!

Nate

nute said:

Ooooh, how are the views from the canadian side?? We went there last year, but we didn't all have our passports so we wouldn't have been able to get back from Canada

Good luck to your sister!

Nate

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Really spectacular. I haven't had a chance to see the view from the US side (we did drive down through the states, but it was rainy and dark when we crossed back into Canada) but I imagine they are also quite good.

You wait for a sale on large tote bins and then clear the shelf so you can store some (not all-not even close) 'rocket crap' so your wife can have the 'guest' bedroom back that was slowly subverted into 'the rocket dungeon'. Sad when your homeless in your own home.

fyrwrxz said:

You wait for a sale on large tote bins and then clear the shelf so you can store some (not all-not even close) 'rocket crap' so your wife can have the 'guest' bedroom back that was slowly subverted into 'the rocket dungeon'. Sad when your homeless in your own home.

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My wife asks me if I am going to play rockets..

Kenny

Hah! My younger cousin asked me last week if "I still played with those stupid rockets". I replied "Well, you DO live in Georgia...did you know we had a space program?" (now just watch CJ chew on me!)

You go to a flea market and come home with your next project....

If your section leader names the lake near your club launch site after you. (He named the woods near us after himself at least.)

If you take selfies with your new motor cases:

You total your car coming home from a scrubbed launch.

Ouch! What happened?

blackbrandt said:

If you take selfies with your new motor cases:
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That's one case not cases.

You write your senators and representatives to make Vern Estes' birthday a national holiday.

You keep on bumping this thread up the forum.

blackbrandt said:

Ouch! What happened?

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Dozed off and hit a guard rail after about four and a half hours of driving.
The only thing damaged was the Jeep. Wife, kids and myself okay, not a scratch on us.

The only thing damaged was the Jeep. Wife, kids and myself okay, not a scratch on us.[/QUOTE]

That's the part that matters.

You use your roof rack for rockets, not just fishing rods.

blackbrandt said:

If you take selfies with your new motor cases:
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Somebody get a shiny new 180 case?

Nantucketdink said:

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You use your roof rack for rockets, not just fishing rods.

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How did you get Past the DHS checkpoints?

you skim over your facebook friends...

Hmmm... How did I meet these guys... Rocketry, TRF, Rocketry, Rocketry, Rocketry, TRF, Rocketry, Rocketry... wait, I think I met them in person once... nope.. rocketry rocketry...

You remember the classic episode of Wonder Woman with the thought-controlled Estes Maxi-Brute Pershing II.

You watched Astronaut Farmer in the theater and had to stop yourself from saying Hey! I've got one of those! when they show the models in the oldest son's room.

You think that Apollo 13 would have been perfect had they used the Apogee Saturn V instead of the Revell model in the launch scene.