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Old 05-15-2006, 10:50 PM
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Nice. How long have you been writing poetry?
Which reminded me of the following piece.

"Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for..." Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:00 pm

Subject: Ejection Baffles: Verse and Song


I dredged this up from:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OldRockets/message/22031


--- Over on OldRockets, CenturiGuy wrote:

> "Bill Eichelberger" said:

< Clusters are cool, and unless you build a tank-like USS America, this should get it moving up the rod. (Heh heh. I said "ROD".) [snip] Laser cut wood gets me HOT! (Okay, it doesn't, but it sure looks cool.) >

"A double-D cluster! FIRE, FIRE!"


< As for the "diffuser", I think that you might be talking about Centuri's ejection baffle system, lauded in verse and song and indeed capable of keeping your chute from cooking at the wrong temperature.>


"Haiku for an Ejection Baffle"

Baffled ejection
Charge rendered harmless
Now heat dissipates.



Las Vegas lounge lizard:

"When I get hot, and start to blow my top
I just baffle my ejection... Hey!
Hot gases blow away, vented into day -
Light as a feather my rocket lands..."


(Okay, that's more like "Beat" poetry, but you get my... *drift.*)

"You better / *reef* your 'chute..."


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Old 05-15-2006, 11:10 PM
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Baffled ejection
Charge rendered harmless
Now heat dissipates.
Actually, I just realized I didn't use the traditional 5-7-5 syllable count on that one. Seems to me I also wrote one for Chas Russell that ended with the word, "Splat!"


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Old 05-16-2006, 12:48 AM
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Actually, I just realized I didn't use the traditional 5-7-5 syllable count on that one. Seems to me I also wrote one for Chas Russell that ended with the word, "Splat!"


Cheers,

--Jay


With your permission.....

Baffled ejection
White hot charge rendered harmless
Heat dissapated

I knew all those English classes would come in handy.
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Old 05-16-2006, 08:07 AM
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OK, it's probably been awhile since anyone's posted this one, so for all those who haven't seen it before, The Unsafe Rocketeer's Poem:

I shot a rocket into the air -
It fell to earth, I knew not where
Until next day, with rage profound
The man it fell on came around.

In less time than it takes to tell
He showed me where that rocket fell
And now, I do not greatly care
To shoot more rockets in the air.

Obviously, someone not following SOME portion of the safety code there, eh?
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Old 05-16-2006, 10:34 AM
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With your permission.....

Baffled ejection
White hot charge rendered harmless
Heat dissapated

I knew all those English classes would come in handy.

Baffled ejection:
The heat of a thousand suns
Is white-hot no more.

No *wonder* I chose engineering instead of English!
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Old 05-16-2006, 06:49 PM
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How about a limerick?
Okay, here goes....

You may think that I am a liar,
But I once lit a rocket afire.
Though no wadding was dealt it,
The 'chute never melted!
That rocket ain't baffled - but I are!



Q: How does one baffle a rocket?

A: I'm not sure but I'll bet something like this would work: Confuse-A-Cat
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Old 05-16-2006, 07:58 PM
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Please, don't tell me that I started this insanity. And again I apolagize for and misconseptions your may have about oh....... anything. JP

Thanks for the laughs, JP
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