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Europe's most important rocket test almost foiled by a slice of cheese (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/offbeat@lemmy.ca

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The cheese was strapped before hand “for fun”

[–] Prefeitura@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't fathom what kind of idiot would risk the whole project for the sake of the lamest "joke" ever and why the fuck everyone else just let this happen.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

It was an un-Brie-lievably stupid risk.

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Turns out Pinky wasn't actually pondering what Brain was pondering.

[–] Antiproton@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were able to engineer and build a hopping propulsion system, but none of them realized the cheese would cause flight instability?

[–] yuri@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

they didn’t realize the instability would be a huge issue for their rcs to overcome. in the end they actually learned more about the capabilities of their system because of the cheese!

[–] Zoop 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I especially like that they ate the cheese after the flight!

[–] baggins 1 points 1 month ago

Nice work Gromit.