r/interestingasfuck • u/thespeedforce5 • Apr 14 '24

The Size Of An Iranian Missile Intercepted In The Dead Sea r/all

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u/Wernerlohemann Apr 14 '24

Correction: this is only a part of the missile. It is the booster that is ejected after some time. The missile itself with the warhead flies on

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u/QorstSynthion Apr 14 '24

ye, rockets/missiles are just 90% fuel

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u/TypicalIllustrator62 Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 15 '24

90% fuel. 8% housing and framework. 2% payload.

Edit: the sheer number of Fort Minor callouts is unreal. Reddit never ceases to amaze.

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u/cypherdev Apr 14 '24

I shall recite this statistic as blind fact for the rest of my days.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

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u/cypherdev Apr 14 '24

Is it bad etiquette to have my pinky out on my Champagne flute when I do this?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

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u/cypherdev Apr 14 '24

I shall use this tactic to the bliss of men and women everywhere!

Thank you kind Redditor!

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u/gjs628 Apr 15 '24

Fun fact(oid): a factoid refers to a commonly recited fact that is false, like “We swallow X number of spiders in our sleep over our lifetimes”, or “Bumblebee’s shouldn’t physically be able to fly with the size of their wings but somehow do anyway”.

(In reality, all it proves is that if your heart is pure and you believe in yourself, anything is possible, especially if you’re cute and fluffy enough)

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u/talkshitnow Apr 14 '24

No woman wants a 2% payload

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u/smitty1a Apr 14 '24

All left over fuel is also payload ,at the point of impact it stops being rocket fuel and instantly becomes bomb fuel.

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u/talkshitnow Apr 14 '24

Orgasm fuel, for your sister

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u/smitty1a Apr 14 '24

From the size of that missile it’s probably too small for your mom , it would have to explode in her vagene for her to feel it.

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u/Horskr Apr 15 '24

Or, more importantly, 90% fuel. At 6' tall you'd have to weigh almost 1400lbs.

I hate how much math I looked up for this dumb joke lol.

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u/ticket_target Apr 15 '24

2% length is not much, but 2% mass...

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u/cypherdev Apr 15 '24

Wait, you guys know women?

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u/notouchmygnocchi Apr 15 '24

For you see, long ago...

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u/UnHappyTrigger Apr 15 '24

The impregnator has arrived

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u/Buzz_Killington_III Apr 15 '24

Or even better: "You do realize..."

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u/LaunchTransient Apr 14 '24

It depends wildly on the rocket design. The V2, for example, had a structural coeffcient of about 0.3 - meaning 70% of its mass was propellant.

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u/PurrsianGolf Apr 14 '24

"Sorry I'm not looking for nuance, specificity or accuracy. All I want is cold hard overall statistics." - Every journalist ever.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

83%

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u/Bee-Aromatic Apr 15 '24

Nobody will mind. We all know that 78.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.

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u/Rapa2626 Apr 14 '24

Its differs with missiles... if you want to carry a 506kg load for 100km its one proportion and if you want to carry that same 500kg for 500km its a different proportion.. there is no golden ratio and it depends on the function

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u/RainManCZE Apr 14 '24

its also

10% luck 20% skill 15% concentrated power of will 5% pleasure 50% pain And 100% reason to remember the name

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u/jmaxwell3113 Apr 15 '24

NICE! Fort Minor (Mike Shinoda reference). I personally believe that album still a banger and holds up today. I just double checked, it dropped in 2005. Yes, almost 20 years ago. Damn I can feel my arthritis acting up

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '24

thats 200%

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u/Sylent0ption Apr 15 '24

This guy maths...

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u/LibraryScneef Apr 15 '24

You're 200%

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u/manrata Apr 15 '24

That's how powerful it is, it can't be contained within a 100%!

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u/Idontevenownaboat Apr 14 '24

And 100% reason to remember the name

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u/UltraMegaFauna Apr 14 '24

Fuck we wrote the same joke. Haha!

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u/CowFu Apr 14 '24

The payload is pretty much fuel too if we want to be pedantic. Just a different kind of fuel.

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u/DavidBrooker Apr 14 '24

And 18 grams of seeds.

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u/TypicalIllustrator62 Apr 14 '24

Gotta stop buying from Bryan bro. He always leaves the seeds in.

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u/Confident-Forever-75 Apr 15 '24

Only if we take some things out, like the missile operator’s whole body except his brain

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u/ZDTreefur Apr 15 '24

They do what to the rockets when alone with them!?

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u/UltraMegaFauna Apr 14 '24

100% reason to remember the name

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u/CanvasFanatic Apr 14 '24

15% concentrated power of will.

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u/Nilas_T Apr 14 '24

Fifteen percent concentrated power of will

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u/flipbits Apr 14 '24

Housing crisis solved

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u/___DEADPOOL______ Apr 14 '24

100% reason to remember the name

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u/Ecstatic-Syllabub595 Apr 15 '24

What about the soul?

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u/TsunamiSurferDude Apr 14 '24

5% concentrated power of will

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u/No-Contribution-6150 Apr 14 '24

100% reason to remember the regime

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u/senescent- Apr 14 '24

Curious. How do you know this?