This memory randomly came back to me when I woke up in the middle of the night and it's been bothering me since. When I was a kid in the early 90s, I remember telling my dad about a rocket concept where the rocket would scoop up dust and gas from the space environment around it and use that as a propellant. His response was to make a face and go "cool" and that was the last time I thought about it. I think I might have seen it talked about in a library book and have a vague memory of a cartoonish illustration of a rocket with a funnel on the front.

At the time, the concept exited me, but it felt like a really long stretch to make something like that work. I haven't really thought about it since. Is this concept still bouncing around? It doesn't really sound that viable, but I don't know crazy ideas sometimes work.

What's more, the video is horribly incorrect compared to the actual story as recorded in the Air Force Times. You would think that a Christian propaganda meal would at least try to get their military history right.

I have nothing else to say

Link to latest post: https://x.com/i/status/2037957668791628037

Link to original: https://x.com/i/status/2036136274546008558

This is some good old-fashioned internet cringe and I'm not sorry for loving it one bit.

WTW location for context

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I was cleaning out a chemical storage closet at work. A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers. I picked one up (bare handed) and sat it down in the grass. About thirty seconds later, I noticed the steam boiling up from around the bottom of the container. This is about 45 seconds worth of contact.

I held on to hope that this would be satire way too long. Then I remembered what group I was on.