Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/31/whose-rocket-was-bigger.html
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My rocket is bigger!
My rocket is the bigliest rocket ever!
I guarantee that there is no problem there.
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Hmm. The Russian space shuttle depicted was called the Buran (not Energia). The multi-use launch system the Buran was attached to is called Energia.
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Hey, that’s not my public forum!
Yeah, well that’s not my phallic joke, either.
I’ll show myself out…
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Isn’t that what they’re going for, the name of the rocket/launcher apparatus?
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The Buran only had maneuvering rockets and rode passively on the Energia as a payload. They Energia was a launch system unto itself and also could be used without the shuttle module.
They didn’t label the Saturn V the “Apollo” either.
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Why on earth would you include Ares I?
Insert phallic joke here.
That’s what my prom date said!
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The Energia launch system was intended to handle an assortment of payloads. With the Buran attached, I suppose there could be room for debate on what to call an entire configuration that included the launch system that gets the Buran into orbit. If this were a US config, I think it would be called 'Buran Energia’ (like Apollo Saturn V). Anyway, my point is that calling the entire ‘stack’ (as it was shown in the video) Energia (and nothing else) tells no one anything since Energia was designed for other possible uses (not just schlepping a shuttle). So, if it had to be given one single name in the video, Buran (the shuttle itself) would have been more appropriate. Just my opinion, although I see your point also.
The answer that will trigger a multilayered right wing meltdown:
Obama’s.
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That’s what you get for not considering nuclear propulsion,.
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The Orion was a clunky design. If you get the explosion to push a sail, you can replace the giant shock absorbers with stretchy cables. This was Project Medusa (named after the jellyfish).
Not a rocket, so it doesn’t get on the chart. Sad.
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There’s a reason they did not build a Sea Dragon.
Modelling suggested that, when launched, the rocket would stay where it was and the Earth would be blasted into a new orbit around the Sun.
(Newton notwithstanding 
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What’s that joke - ‘Rule #34 of the Internet’ - if you can think of something pervy, it exists?
Is there a market for dildoes shaped very realistically like specific space rockets?
I’m asking for an unemployed friend.
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Length, girth… what matters in the end, is that it goes up, and stays up.
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I am sure that if there is such a market the “specific” of your post would allude to the less pointy ones.
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… at least long enough to deliver its payload.
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