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Title: Rocket fans successfully launch porta-potty into the sky
Post by: Buster's Uncle on December 08, 2014, 07:42:42 pm

Rocket fans successfully launch porta-potty into the sky
A group of Michigan rocket enthusiasts strap a rocket to a porta potty and launch it skyward. Because, why not?
CNET
by  Anthony Domanico @ajdomanico /December 8, 2014 10:16 AM PST


Porta potty launch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Cr43ZP9hk#ws)


Orion, Schmorion. While the supergeniuses at NASA were launching their next-gen spacecraft last week, the Michiana Rocketry club was hard at work launching a porta-potty into the sky.

The group launched the porta-potty on Saturday, when it flew in an arch and almost landed on a spectator's truck some 2,000 feet away from the launch site, according to The Herald-Palladium. Michiana Rocketry had been planning the porta-potty launch for over two years as part of their efforts to raise awareness of rocketry as a hobby. Plus, they thought it'd be pretty fun to prove they could turn a portable toilet into a dang rocket.

The porta-potty rocket stayed aloft for 38 seconds, the video shows. Fortunately, the portable toilet wasn't full of waste at the time of launch. Launching a full porta-potty would have been a pretty, um, wasteful, ending to an otherwise spectacular day for the group.


http://www.cnet.com/news/rocket-fans-successfully-launch-porta-potty-into-the-sky/#ftag=YHF65cbda0 (http://www.cnet.com/news/rocket-fans-successfully-launch-porta-potty-into-the-sky/#ftag=YHF65cbda0)