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The art of controlling an explosion long enough to call it transportation.
means The science and practice of designing, building, and launching rockets.
from Built from 'rocket' plus the suffix '-ry' (as in 'chemistry' or 'artillery'), marking it as a field of practice. 'Rocket' itself traces back through Italian 'rocchetta,' meaning 'little spindle' — a diminutive of 'rocca,' a distaff used in spinning thread — because early tubular fireworks and incendiary devices resembled that slender spool shape. The word entered English around the 17th century attached to fireworks and early military projectiles, long before it came to mean anything that left the atmosphere.
- core principle
- Newton's third law, weaponized for curiosity
- fuel math
- most of the rocket is just fuel for the fuel
- real enemy
- gravity never clocks out, ever
- founding irony
- invented for war, used to leave it behind