In a quest to be EXACTLY the place where Jemaine, Bret, and Murray WOULD come from, New Zealand has managed to launch a wee little rocket just slightly beyond our atmosphere into a stratum of area that could technically be called space. It then triumphantly fell into the Pacific Ocean.
The sub-orbital vehicle was launched by a private company, Rocket Lab, and named The Atea-1, after the Maori word for space (I am racist because I am surprised that such a word exists). The owner of the company, Mark Rocket (yes, seriously) says: "It's not trivial sending something into space. This is a huge technological leap for New Zealand."
BECAUSE, you know, puking a rinky dink syringe-looking thing 63 miles above the Earth's surface into sortaspace for "just the tip" is exactly the same as sending an entire space shuttle with seven astronauts to resupply the International Space Station and getting them back in time to catch some wicked-good Black Friday sales. USA!
I think this calls for Bret to have another David Bowie dream sequence.
Nothing gives me a more genuine surge of patriotic pride than the mothahubblin' space program. USA, indeed.
details requested: was it fueled or sling-shot into space?
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Next they're gonna be all "Hey look world, we invented our own bicycle. It's like the bicycles made in other countries, only shittier!"
heeeeey, we have jetpacks!
The engineer behind the New Zealand bicycle: "Tom Bicycle."
BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. Mike Toaster. OMG. This is fun. Sheila Tampon.
Mr. Coffee.
Mr. Radar. Spaceballs all over again.
Someone like immediately needs to make the documentary telling the tragic story of Sheila Tampon, opium addict and inventor of the 100% wool New Zealand tampon.
100% wool tampon? IT'S CALLED A SMALL SHEEP.
They would have launched last year, but the kangaroo was drunk.
kangaroo? kangarooo? this wasn't some kind of trans-tasman co-operation joint.
Well, kiwis are flightless birds.
they used keas.
Yeah we laughed about this too. Since when does shooting a giant firework into the air constitute 'space exploration'. Hi Mary! You are not racist, they make up new Maori words for modern concepts, although I guess 'space' has always been around so there goes that theory. For example computer is 'rorohiko' which apparently means 'brain lightning'! Oh and it's 'Atea', there are no l's in Maori.
OH GAR! Fixed.
Oooh thanks (more so for acknowledging me than for fixing it, ha!) You RULE.
ARE you kidding? Um cello? Brain lightening? Coolest thing ever.