I’m still recovering from TAM, and I’ll be blogging up a storm in a little while. But until then, this made me laugh. We’ve all done something like this, I suspect…
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June 24th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Ha ha ha…
FAIL.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Don’t tell me, the cameraman is from the DHS, right?
LOL
June 24th, 2008 at 10:16 am
lol, this is hilarious :S
June 24th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Great video. Love the site.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
June 24th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Oops…
June 24th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Heh……
June 24th, 2008 at 10:54 am
As Bugs Bunny might say, “What a maroon.”
June 24th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Why would anyone post this? I guess they’re very secure.
I was pointed at the right pad at the launch I saw…
June 24th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Best out loud laugh so far this week. Thanks.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am
hahaha!!! That is hilarious!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:35 am
hahaha!!! That is hilarious! and why are my comments flagged down by spam filters?!
June 24th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Funniest thing I’ve seen all day, I shudder to think the amount of ribbing the poor idiot receives because of this. Hehe, probably can’t get within 3 metres of a camera without someone making a “make sure you point to the right one” joke.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I got the camera pointed right at the tower…but nothings happening! Why is everyone cheering? Come on – blast off!
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I would cry. How gutting.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I went to a launch last August where my darling wife and I staked out a spot on the intracoastal a few miles (several more kilometers) due west of the pads. It was mostly water between us and the pad. But it wasn’t clear from our vantage point which of two launch pads had the shuttle on it. My 10x binoculars didn’t help enough.
One guy who was there who claimed to work at the space center told me it was the pad on the left. Well, it was the pad on the right. It isn’t easy to tell given the distance one must be at sometimes. Of course, a night launch is far more obvious.
The video is still funny, though. So (Nelson) HA HA! (/Nelson)
June 24th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
I enjoyed it so very much. It’s great to come home from a long day and get a laugh like that.
June 24th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I was present for 105. The launch was delayed one day and on the second day, I was all prepared. Yes, I KNEW I had the correct pad.
The instant of launch – my camera mount flopped 90 degrees and I was photographing the ground!
I did recover – but only just. I missed the clearing of the tower as well.
Yep – it happens to us all.
JC
June 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Okay, I hadn’t seen this before. It was REALLY funny! Thanks for putting it up.
June 24th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Never forget to make an allowance for the Oops Factor. It is in constant attendance.
June 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
HAHAHAHAHA!! I’m reading this at work and I almost laughed out loud at this one. Hilarious!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
That’s just too funny.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:57 am
I was wondering what the deal was, until the end.
Big “oops!”
June 25th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
That was great
June 28th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
ha. funny stuff. I was looking at that tower thinking it looks ordinary.
July 7th, 2008 at 3:49 am
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