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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I think they’re saying if the rocket was scaled down to the height of a pencil, then it’s proportional altitude would have been equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building.


23 posted on 12/21/2015 6:44:45 PM PST by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives

Thanks. What a weird analogy. You’d think almost everybody would understand “it went 100 miles high”


27 posted on 12/21/2015 6:53:10 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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