Christmas Tree Rocketry 29
An anonymous reader writes "It's after Christmas, so what do you do with your Christmas tree? Turn it into a missile, of course! From the creators of 'Christmas Tree Rocketry: The Art and Science of Holiday Recycling' (video) comes a new epic: the flight of the XMS MissileToe."
Love the music (Score:4, Interesting)
Post-battle FF7 music, made me smile. :) /nerds are awesome
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Video taken down by "copyright owners" in 3... 2... 1...
Happy New Year, and ... (Score:1)
I was (Score:2)
I was expecting more missile tow.
On the twelfth day of Christmas.. (Score:2)
It`s after Christmas,...
Um, no it's not there are twelve days of Christmas, it ends on the 5th of January!
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Um, no it's not there are twelve days of Christmas, it ends on the 5th of January!
20th day Yule is traditionally when the tree goes down in Fennoscandia. At this point, it's still being decorated with more bags of nuts and sweets.
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Christmas begins on November 1st (when retailers toss aside the Halloween decorations for the Christmas ones), continues until January 1st (when they begin to focus on Valentine's Day), and makes a brief resurgence in July. Thus, Christmas has about 92 days and takes up a quarter of the year.
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Where do you live? I started seeing some advertisements for Xmas just after Labor Day!!!!
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Not anymore. They already will have some Christmas stuff out in September/October. The amount of Halloween stuff exceeds it until Nov 1, when all the Halloween shelves switch to Christmas stuff.
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Bambi Meets Godzilla (Score:3)
The build up and payoff was about as satisfying as "Bambi Meets Godzilla"
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lol (Score:2)
How is this recycling? (Score:4, Insightful)
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I assure you the tree was briefly recycled into a short lived rocket decoration implement. ;-)
The resulting waste might need to be recycled too but that's a new problem
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On Dec 26th, every "Christmas Tree" got turned into "Last Year's Christmas Tree". A few days/weeks after that, every "Last Year's Christmas Tree" got turned into "Mulch".
Unlike all the other trees that completed said transition, this tree had an intermediate stage, in which it got turned into something awesome.
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The tree is now just 100ft further out in a field. It didn't get turned into something useful.
Sure it did. Now it's the neighbor's problem.
"new" ??? (Score:2)
For values of "new" approaching "posted 7 months ago".
One small problem (Score:2)
They still have to throw the tree itself away...