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Redneck Rocket Scientists

National Geographic is launching a new reality show filming rednecks in Alabama. What makes the show watchable? It’s set in Huntsville, birthplace of the U.S. space program and home to NASA’s Marshall Flight Center. It also features a camo-wearing family of rednecks littered with PhDs and advanced degrees in rocket science.

The show “Rocket City Rednecks,” premieres on the National Geographic Channel Wednesday night with four back-to-back episodes, including “Moonshine Rocket Fuel” and “20,000 Kegs Under the Sea.a”

In this clip from “Moonshine Rocket Fuel,” the redneck relatives gather parts to build a homemade whiskey still to manufacture moonshine to fuel a rocket:

In “20,000 Kegs Under the Sea” the boys get in a heap’a trouble test driving a submarine built out of  an emptied fertilizer tank and beer kegs:

The channel just might have a hit on its hands. Roll Tide.

Comments (127)

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  • eric6161
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:57pm

    Where are the black “rednecks?” This is racist to not include any.

     
    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:05pm

      Blacks cannot be Rednecks that would be racist

      OMG – Psalm 109:8

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    • Libertyluvnmomma
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:45pm

      Bill Rowland if you are going to site scripture verses, it would do well not to take the Lord’ Name in vain.
      It is one of the few things He commands of us- and yes, “OMG” counts.

      On account of the article- looks like a interesting show- for once!

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    • dave.1976
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:09pm

      you know it is people like you. “ thats racist” everthing has to be racist to you don’t it what about the B.E.T and shows with no white people in it if you ask me your racist !

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    • Corrigenda
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:52pm

      >>Where are the black “rednecks?” This is racist to not include any.<<

      The mind boggles that anyone can really think this a sensible comment to put forward let alone one that merits an answer.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:57pm

      why can’t black people be rednecks? i think there are so many redneck black people…

      i’ve seen people without red necks called rednecks… i’ve heard people without red necks call themselves rednecks…. so… i don’t think you actually have to be a short haired, white, outside worker and have an actual red neck to be a redneck… ;)

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:42pm

      My goal in life is to be a redneck living in a trailer on the side of a mountain in West Virginia with pigs, chickens, a couple of mean dogs, with a mote and electric fence as the first line of defense against anyone who doesn’t like my redneck. I ain’t sayin what the next line of defense is, but it will be impressive!

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:03pm

      There’s rednecks out here, but everyone is a shade of brown. It don’t matter what your skin shade is, It’s all brown. FYI ALERT! We’ve gone a little further than the B/W crap.

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    • comsense08
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:09pm

      Oh God, not another one. Give it up dude? Who the hell is counting anymore? Sheesh!

       
    • RockyMountainPride
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:51pm

      People, PEOPLE, calm down. It was a joke … a joke. He doesn‘t really think they’re being racist … calm … down … … … good.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:51pm

      @ CAPTAINCRUNCH, Go easy, now. I like your plan. I don’t know about the moat, tho. Also, have a box outside the gate for FedEx and the like. Put up signs, then if someone crosses said line, you have certain rights to defend life and property. nufsaid.

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    • Ron Paul is a NUT
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:45pm

      Datz rayciss!

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    • SH4D0W
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:58pm

      Whatchya gonna call’em? Blacknecks? Kinda defeats the whole “Red”, as in sunburn’t neck, part of it….

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    • rangerp
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:41pm

      You may be surprised at some of the country black folks I used to coon hunt with in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina. Just as backwoods and country as any redneck I know.

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    • kenboo1
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:59pm

      JB
      “i’ve seen people without red necks called rednecks… i’ve heard people without red necks call themselves rednecks…. so… i don’t think you actually have to be a short haired, white, outside worker and have an actual red neck to be a redneck… ;)”
      ITS NOT REQUIRED, BUT IT HELPS, OK???

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    • SgtB
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:32pm

      I know a few, but they’re okies. We’re a different kind of redneck. I‘m not sure we’d build anything like a sub. But if you want a rat rod or a 4×4 we can get you hooked up.

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    • pattybbb1
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 12:08am

      I live about 20 miles from Huntsville, AL and there are plenty of black rednecks around here. Now hush up y’all and watch the show Wed. night!! You might just learn something.

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    • dadat30
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 2:57pm

      @Libertyluvnmomma
      God Is not God’s name!!! People!!! Gahhhhhh!!

      God is “What” He is. A title!! His name is something we can’t even rightly pronounce. So we say “Yahweh” Got it?

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    • K123K
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 3:53pm

      I’m black, and I’m married to a self-proclaimed redneck. He keeps trying to teach me redneck ways, but he thinks I’m just not getting it.

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    • pompey
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 5:43pm

      ….they are n—-rs and they are in the White House……

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    • Obeeone
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:09pm

      It is also racist if you don’t have any Red blacknecks.

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    • Obeeone
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 9:10pm

      It is also racist to not have any Red blacknecks.

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    • GollygeeMrwilson
      Posted on October 3, 2011 at 10:43am

      Take a pill, Eric

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:53pm

    @Rickfromillinois
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:33pm
    ‘Travis Taylor who is on the show is also a successful SciFi author.’
    *************
    Speaking if Sci Fi authors, I am surprised that Phillipp K. Dick never comes up in any of these threads. He is probably the greatest science fiction writer that ever lived (OK, equal to Azimov and Bradbury) and toward the end of his life, became extremely, mystically Christian. His later stories show this.

    He believed that we indeed lived in the end times, but that these end times, and us right now, are actually still in the latter part of the 1st century AD. I don”t know if he meant it literally or figuratively. He believed that ‘The Empire’ (The Roman Empire) never ended, only consolidated its control, and that Christianity was still in its Apostolic Age, and struggling against an evil and powerful foe.

    Marvelous, brilliant writer. I like all his books.

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    • kedward
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:16am

      I agree. Bladerunner, from “Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep?” is probably the best movie inspired by a science fiction book.

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  • bigfatslob
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:34pm

    I’d love to see a couple of adventures of “ Ghetto Rocket Scientists”, wouldn’t you ?

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:08pm

      That would be fun. What would they use for rocket fuel? Meth

      OMG – Psalm 109:8

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    • Ron Paul is a NUT
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Maybe they could harvest methane from your mammy’s backside for fuel?

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    • kenboo1
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:05pm

      OH no you didn’t jus bus out da momma jokes!!!!

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    • Skee
      Posted on September 27, 2011 at 2:47pm

      If we could find find scientists in the ghetto
      There are chemical engineering labs

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  • Eddie
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:29pm

    May I quote the famous phrase insuring problems ahead and which has been uttered at some point by my fellow Tennessee and other Southern Rednecks….”Hey, watch this!”

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    • Bro Geo Too
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:55pm

      Wait a minute, Eddie, aren‘t those usually what’s called “famous last words”?

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:09pm

      I think it’s “Hold my beer and watch this.” signed Mike, from North Jawjah.

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    • BurntHills
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:02pm

      definitely “hold my beer and watch this”’ are the most famous last words

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:24pm

    The only thing ever invented by a liberal was the tin cup, so his fellow liberals could have the means to invent a way to make a liveinp

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  • texasfarmer
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:21pm

    When the crap hits the fan I won’t have to worry about going to the store and picking up some wine.
    A mason jar full of “rocket fuel” makes for a fine day.

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  • georgeisn6
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:20pm

    I am offended; any one who advicate’s for red necks is by definition a RACIST, and I demand equil time on the program for offending blacks, and hispanics and gays and three legged gray hounds and chinese and one eyed rabits and so on; everone and ever thing should be treated equil;

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:11pm

      Hey George are you sure you haven’t been into the rocket fuel?

      OMG – 109:8

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  • Baikonur
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:16pm

    Cool story.

    I was a little puzzled by this line: ‘It also features a camo-wearing family of rednecks littered with PhDs and advanced degrees in rocket science.‘ Maybe we need to redefine ’redneck’ :) A family where many people have advanced degrees in physics is not exactly ‘redneck.’

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    • NRABIBLETHUMPER
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:53pm

      Exactly how do you define redneck?

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    • TerryCSA
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:54pm

      Apparently YOUR definition of redneck is a misconception. But we rednecks know how to do things that are a little bit out of the box. and we have more fun doing them too. LOL

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:58pm

      Redneck is a chosen lifestyle and has nothing to do with education or income. You are used to seeing Rednecks depicted as hillbillies on TV.

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    • 420 Patriot
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Jeff Foxworthy dfines it best. “If going to the bathroom in the middle of the night requires shoes and a flashlight…” Buy a CD and listen. Funny stuff.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:16pm

      @Blackhawk1
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:58pm
      ‘You are used to seeing Rednecks depicted as hillbillies on TV.’
      *************
      What is the difference between a redneck and a hillbilly? I assume both refer to an uneducated rural person, with differences being geographic: hillbillies occupying the Appalachian Mountains and rednecks being more the deep south types.

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    • desirefirst
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:16pm

      i’m amazed at how many people here fail to know the original base meaning of redneck is farmer

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Here are some of the differences I found.

      A redneck wears a gigantic, shiny belt buckle. A hillbilly wears a gigantic, rusty belt buckle. A redneck has the buckle on a belt while a hillbilly might have it hanging from the rope he’s using as a belt.

      A redneck favors trailers for homes. So do hillbillies, except a hillbilly trailer won’t have skirting around it. Makes it too hard for the dogs to get under when it rains.

      Both favor beer but a redneck prefers cans over bottles. A hillbilly is concerned only about the price.

      A redneck might marry his cousin but not his sister. A hillbilly might marry his sister although he might not know it until the junior cretin is born.

      A redneck usually has at least half of his teeth or a partial plate. A hillbilly may not have any teeth, including a partial. He does carry his last tooth around his neck, on a string.

      The main difference between a redneck car and a hillbilly car is the amount of time spent up on blocks.

      Rednecks stick to comic books. Hillbillies look at only pictures, including naked women, although he doesn’t believe women look like that in real life.

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  • TomFerrari
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:31pm

    Give a redneck a beer can and a used tire, and he can make you anything you want!

    THIS IS AMERICAN INGENUITY at work !

    “Rednecks” grew up, having to make do, to improvise, or to do without. So, when necessity arose, they are equipped to find a solution! (Necessity is the mother of invention)

    This is the real reason for used vehicles being on blocks around people’s homes…
    They know that there are many good parts on the old vehicle, even if it does not run. Growing up poor, you don’t throw away anything. A used hubcap can become a bbq grill. NOTE: The wheels and tires were already used on another vehicle.

    Way to go, “redneck rocket scientists!”

    It’s not just the Haa-vaad intellectual elite that are intelligent, in spite of what THEY may think or say.

    SPEAKING PERSONALLY:
    I’M KENTUCKY BORN AND BRED.
    Born in the Appalachians;
    educated in public schools;
    graduate of 2 universities; (1st generation even to attend college)
    a commercial pilot;
    can write software/program in 10 languages;
    and I’m also a polyglot.
    And there are millions more examples of bright, successful, educated “rednecks.”
    .
    .
    .

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    • MHP
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:04pm

      Us Rednecks and hillbillies are smarter than city fellers.
      Got that encinom? You wouldn’t know how to improvise.
      We do it all the time.
      Sometimes we call it N******r rig it

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:53pm

      Lemme tellya something Mister tomferrari, you sound like my brother. He can speak fluently three lingos other than english, while I’m still trying to learn one. He can point to the hood of any one of his three Mercedes and tell you, “I think the engines in there.” While I can tear down, rebuild, tweak to better performance, MPG, looks, you name it. I can do alot but my youngest son is jealous. Jealous because I’m gonna graduate high school two years before him.

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    • RockyMountainPride
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:05pm

      And sometimes people call MHP .. trolls. You’re no redneck. Probably still living in you mom’s basement playing W.O.W. .. Yip. I nailed it.

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    • mrbuff1959
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:00am

      Need exter room com on down to centeral texas.Wealways have room for smart people.

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    • KYHighlander
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 1:11am

      Polyglot? I thought all them was in Utah not Kentucky. I live in Kentucky and never met a polyglot. LOL

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    • MBOL
      Posted on September 28, 2011 at 9:40pm

      What in tarnations is a polyglot?
      sounds more city to me…..hmmmm.
      and “THIS IS AMERICAN INGENUITY at work !” should say something like Southern enginuity..

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on October 2, 2011 at 10:10pm

      @MrBuff – I just DID – I’m in Southlake now! Where are you? (I can be found via twitter & facebook)

      @KyHighLander – You in East Ky?

      @MBOL – “polyglot” – one who glots too much. LOL It was meant as a joke – I do speak multiple languages – just none too well. LOL

      @1casawizard – We’re in agreement. I’m STANDING UP for “rednecks” and consider myself one. I just happen to be one of the ones that did well in school. Even without the schooling, we fare better than others because we are resourceful, and we do it for ourselves! I’m jealous of you too! I USED TO be able to overhaul an engine… but, those days are LOOOONG gone! With all the electronics and such, I don’t even TRY! Every time I have a problem now, they tell me I’d have to buy a computer to “diagnose” it – can’t I just change the spark plugs? Or replace the CV joints? Early congrats on graduation, bud!!!

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  • sWampy
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:27pm

    Love how the yankees that have never produced anything make fun of the south, where all the great inventions of the 20th century, the only great US literature, and 90% of the beautiful women come from.

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:21pm

      @sWampy
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:27pm
      ‘Love how the yankees that have never produced anything make fun of the south, where all the great inventions of the 20th century, the only great US literature,…’
      **************
      Agreed about great America writers coming from the South, but if you read any great Souther writers like Faulkner, Williams, O’Connor, Chopin you know that they are writing about the suffocating hypocrisy, cruelty and constriction of life in the South. They may be Southern writers, but their writing is about how horrible life there is.

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    • HurricaneTim
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:02pm

      @Baikonur, I do believe they were FICTION writers weren’t they?

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    • Baikonur
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:19pm

      @HurricaneTim
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:02pm
      ‘Baikonur, I do believe they were FICTION writers weren’t they?’
      *************
      Yes, in the Realist tradition.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:08pm

      Remember Swampy, our greatest invent. That is the cotton gin. You can make alcohol from anything that spoils.

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  • Indymaverick
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:23pm

    Can`t wait to see the show.

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:22pm

    Now, that was fun!

    And, I’m “just a girl!”

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  • Dustyluv
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:21pm

    Wow drownded blowed up rednecks…Obama should love this.

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  • Plan B
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:19pm

    Thanks for the laughs Blaze! Needed something light on a Monday!!

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  • RodT82721
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:14pm

    Cody on Dual Survivors, they guy that only wears shorts and no shoes, no matter where he goes, built a still out of an old tin can and a piece of copper tubing he found.
    He used pine pitch to plug his holes. He was just making potable water to drink, and it worked. So this is not a new idea, compared to a couple of PhDs with all a Hardware store building a still!

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    • Samsss
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:41pm

      Did you by any chance TASTE the water he produced – or do you know what pine pitch is? If he drank that water, he spent some time hiding in the woods for sure. Also, he got rid of any “bowel” worms he may have had.
      PawPawSam

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  • wkw58
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:12pm

    ….only in America.

    Gotta love it.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:12pm

    Ironman suit test, Ha! This looks funny.

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  • onegodinkansas
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:54pm

    stupid Obama.

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    • IvanK
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:10pm

      Now that Obama has KILLED the space program [Yes our MIC (marxist in chief) killed the greatest scientific program in the world], these folks have to do something other than collect unemployment and food stamps.

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:27pm

      @IVANK

      Come now, you don’t really believe that Obama or anyone else actually shut down our space program do you? I appreciate your sentiment, I like to blame Obama for everything too, but think about it for a minute.

      The first space shuttle lauch was on Apr 12, 1981, and clearly there was research and development time well before that. The shuttle program was at *least* 35 year old technology when it was shut down. Surely in the last 35 years NASA/JPL/USAF has come up with something that’s better than the shuttle program in every way. I’m not saying either one of these exist, but look up SR-75 and the TR-3B as a couple of potential examples. I guarantee you we can still get into orbit. We’ll still hitch a ride with the Russians every now and then to keep up appearances, but we can still get there ourselves. I mean, how else are we going to get top secret satellites into orbit? :D

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  • normbal
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:53pm

    Small problem with that. Since George Washington declared war on home distillers (see “whisky rebellion”) alcohol distillation has been severely restricted and regulated in the US. I do hope they have the appropriate ATF-approved license for their still. There was a program on cable last year about a survivalist-oriented family in Pennsylvania and they did something similar. Although the fines are smaller, manufacturing alcohol this way is a federal offense much like manufacturing one’s own machine guns but very selectively prosecuted so far. Just saying.

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  • Wringeaux
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:51pm

    I like the lawnmower races.

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  • nannyatnannydotgov
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:46pm

    Just goes to show you, you can‘t judge a book by it’s cover.

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  • gmoneytx
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:40pm

    Oh yeah, that‘s what I’m talking about, this will be something on TV worth watching…BTW, can we get Obama in that sub they built and give him a try at it?!?

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  • NuffSaid
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:38pm

    Can you reach Washington DC from Huntsville?

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    • Le Sellers
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:44pm

      Of course you can. You can reach Washington City from Kenya.

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 2:28pm

      @ Le Salle

      Washington can be reached from anywhere on the planet. The question is, how much are you willing to pay for a puppet to get in there for you?

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    • bikerr
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:22pm

      Sure you can ………………………”We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad,” Barack Obama.

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:57pm

      I’m sure the Saturn 5 can reach with NO PROBLEM, Sir.

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  • DrFrost
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:36pm

    Inside every grown man is a 12 year old dying to get out and no amount of education is going to change that.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:33pm

    Travis Taylor who is on the show is also a successful SciFi author.

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