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Hephcestus

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(grinning and laughing proudly at what I've built)

'Damn this thing's fast!'

Rocket- afterwards known as 'Murphy's Delta V Chariot'- melted from atmospheric friction 5 km above KSC (thanks Murphy and Deadly Reentry).

(having trouble holding the gravity turn, bird wants to keep yawing starboard towards the ground)

'Maybe turning off the port (of three) engine will help'

Cue unplanned and un-recoverable acrobatic maneuvers at 30 km.

(several times in various situations)

'Meh, I saw Scott Manly do this on Youtube. It's easy.'

Crash, boom, screams.

'Think I'll go watch that video again.'

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"I'm sure the ozone smell suddenly coming from my computer in no way means I'll have trouble with this six thousand part vehicle launch." ~Me, a week or two ago

Wackjob you are back :)

I think it had been more fitting if the computer exploded, I once launched an condensator so it hit the roof. PSU was set to 110 V, I plugged it to 220 V, heard a strange sound and I saw the problem, opened PSU and changed fuse.

Started it without putting the casing on psu, heard an steaming sound and ducked, an bang and the condensatot blew up

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Wackjob you are back :)

I think it had been more fitting if the computer exploded, I once launched an condensator so it hit the roof. PSU was set to 110 V, I plugged it to 220 V, heard a strange sound and I saw the problem, opened PSU and changed fuse.

Started it without putting the casing on psu, heard an steaming sound and ducked, an bang and the condensatot blew up

Discovered a new way to put very small things in orbit !

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