HP ad featuring model rocket

[billspad]

There's a two page full color HP ad in today's Wall Street Journal featuring a model rocket.

 

[Rocketbuilder]

Ooh, look! A pedophile! :eyeroll:
Maybe this will help negate any negative effect of a certain PSA...
And it's hard to tell from the photo, but that looks like a pretty good-sized rocket. (By my standards.) Shouldn't he be a little farther away? Oh well, it's nice to see the hobby getting some positive representation.

 

[Daddyisabar]

My first model rocket kit was back in 1975 when HP gave each employee's child a Christmas present. It was the Alpha in the Range Box. The good ole days at HP.

 

[FastCargo]

My first model rocket kit was back in 1975 when HP gave each employee's child a Christmas present. It was the Alpha in the Range Box. The good ole days at HP.

No kiddin!?!? Cool. My wife worked at HP for a couple of years, which saw some changes...

And don't get me started on the WebOS fiasco...

FC

PS Just checked, it's on the HP Facebook page too.

 

[dlazarus6660]

So what rocket is it?

 

[sylvie369]

So what rocket is it?

It's the first in the new line of MPR rockets by HP, available soon at Best Buy.

 

[GregGleason]

Wow! HP and LPR via the WSJ.

I can't tell from the pic, but is that a woman launching the rocket?

Greg

 

[Pantherjon]

So what rocket is it?

Looks like a slightly upscale Alpha...

 

[qquake2k]

Ooh, look! A pedophile! :eyeroll:

How the hell do you get "pedophile" from that ad???

 

[blackbrandt]

Its a pun off that video in watering hole featuring model rockets and a pedophile.

 

[qquake2k]

Its a pun off that video in watering hole featuring model rockets and a pedophile.

Haven't seen that one.

 

[Rocketbuilder]

Haven't seen that one.

Well, it ticked off a lot of people on here who thought it was going to make everyone think that all rocketeers are monsters, and that now it would be impossible to get young people involved in rocketry because it was used as an example in a PSA. The first half of my post was a comment on that issue and how people reacted to it. (And, more importantly, how they thought other people would react to it.)

 

[FastCargo]

Haven't seen that one.

If you're curious, here is the thread about it (includes a link to the video in question):

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?37115-Another-Hit-To-The-Hobby-s-Reputation

The video is a PSA cautioning parents about pedophiles being anyone. The problem is that for the video, they decided to use model rocketry as an example.

FC

 

[FastCargo]

can't tell from the pic, but is that a woman launching the rocket?

Sure looks like a mom and her kid. Nice to see a positive picture of the hobby in a mainstream publication.

FC

 

[qquake2k]

If you're curious, here is the thread about it (includes a link to the video in question):

https://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?37115-Another-Hit-To-The-Hobby-s-Reputation

The video is a PSA cautioning parents about pedophiles being anyone. The problem is that for the video, they decided to use model rocketry as an example.

FC

Now that really sucks! Of all the examples they could have used, why model rocketry?