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NORAD's Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center, C.1966

https://flashbak.com/norad-cheyenne-mountain-combat-center-478804/

#HackerNews #NORAD #CheyenneMountain #CombatCenter #1966 #ColdWar #MilitaryHistory #SpaceDefense

Coalition team takes part in Readiness Challenge X: Day 1 🇺🇸🚀

#21stCommunicationsSquadron #45thCivilEngineeringSquadron #96thCivilEngineeringSquadron #AFCEReadinessChallenge #Airmen #CheyenneMountain #Guardians #RCAF

▶️ from U.S. Space Force/Command (DVIDS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coalition_team_takes_part_in_Readiness_Challenge_X-_Day_1_%288355647%29.jpg

Watching #Interstellar again and while I love the #movie, and I love the musical score even more, bits of this movie are so fucking insane that it literally causes a core meltdown in my brain and I simply can not enjoy it while its going on.

I'm mainly referring to the launch of the rocket that takes Cooper up into space.

What's left of #NASA is apparently at #NORAD in #CheyenneMountain.

First off, Cheyenne Mountain is near fucking #ColoradoSprings, #Colorado.

We all saw what happened to Space X's launch facilities on the #Texas coast and how the launch pad was utterly destroyed sending debris flying everywhere.

Trying to launch a fucking ROCKET from inside a mountain? AYFKM? (And Cheyenne Mountain is basically a bunch of pre-fabricated offices and rooms sitting on springs in a giant cavern dug out of the mountain. It's not a missile silo!)

Also, there's a reason we launch rockets from #CapeCanaveral, #Florida or #FrenchGuyana or hell even #Houston, Texas. The closer you are to the equator, the more you can use the earth's own rotation to help speed you up and help you reach escape velocity with less fuel.

(Of course not all launches do that, launches to put a payload into polar orbit are a bit different.)

But to launch a rocket from fucking Colorado Springs? Not to mention a multi-stage rocket like what's depicted in Interstellar? AYFKM?

You're going to be dropping your launch stage over the fucking United States. Good luck to whomever is walking their dog down below as a several-ton piece of metal comes crashing out of the sky!

And let's talk about the launch facility "inside" Cheyenne Mountain as depicted in the movie.

Dr. Brand presses a button and the wall to the conference room moves revealing the rocket ship that everyone is working on just outside that wall.

The same rocket ship they want to launch Coop in to go into space.

Well...

Bye bye anyone and everyone and every thing that's in Cheyenne Mountain when that fucking rocket launches.

But later on in the movie they show scenes in that same conference room with Dr. Brand continuing to work on his "gravity equation".

Fuck me.

Yes, I know it's a movie. Yes, I know about suspending belief and just getting into the story and enjoying it.

And for most movies I can. (Although Jeff Goldblum being able to use an Apple MacBook to link up with some alien technology wirelessly and upload a virus to an alien mothership back in 1996 I will never forgive. Even if his dad is Judd Hirsch and he's a Cable TV Repairman. AppleTalk and LocalTalk were bad enough back then.)

But at least make the setup and the scenarios plausible!

Is that too much to ask?

Watching #Interstellar again and while I love the #movie, and I love the musical score even more, bits of this movie are so fucking insane that it literally causes a core meltdown in my brain and I simply can not enjoy it while its going on.

I'm mainly referring to the launch of the rocket that takes Cooper up into space.

What's left of #NASA is apparently at #NORAD in #CheyenneMountain.

First off, Cheyenne Mountain is near fucking #ColoradoSprings, #Colorado.

We all saw what happened to Space X's launch facilities on the #Texas coast and how the launch pad was utterly destroyed sending debris flying everywhere.

Trying to launch a fucking ROCKET from inside a mountain? AYFKM? (And Cheyenne Mountain is basically a bunch of pre-fabricated offices and rooms sitting on springs in a giant cavern dug out of the mountain. It's not a missile silo!)

Also, there's a reason we launch rockets from #CapeCanaveral, #Florida or #FrenchGuyana or hell even #Houston, Texas. The closer you are to the equator, the more you can use the earth's own rotation to help speed you up and help you reach escape velocity with less fuel.

(Of course not all launches do that, launches to put a payload into polar orbit are a bit different.)

But to launch a rocket from fucking Colorado Springs? Not to mention a multi-stage rocket like what's depicted in Interstellar? AYFKM?

You're going to be dropping your launch stage over the fucking United States. Good luck to whomever is walking their dog down below as a several-ton piece of metal comes crashing out of the sky!

And let's talk about the launch facility "inside" Cheyenne Mountain as depicted in the movie.

Dr. Brand presses a button and the wall to the conference room moves revealing the rocket ship that everyone is working on just outside that wall.

The same rocket ship they want to launch Coop in to go into space.

Well...

Bye bye anyone and everyone and every thing that's in Cheyenne Mountain when that fucking rocket launches.

But later on in the movie they show scenes in that same conference room with Dr. Brand continuing to work on his "gravity equation".

Fuck me.

Yes, I know it's a movie. Yes, I know about suspending belief and just getting into the story and enjoying it.

And for most movies I can. (Although Jeff Goldblum being able to use an Apple MacBook to link up with some alien technology wirelessly and upload a virus to an alien mothership back in 1996 I will never forgive. Even if his dad is Judd Hirsch and he's a Cable TV Repairman. AppleTalk and LocalTalk were bad enough back then.)

But at least make the setup and the scenarios plausible!

Is that too much to ask?

Watching #Interstellar again and while I love the #movie, and I love the musical score even more, bits of this movie are so fucking insane that it literally causes a core meltdown in my brain and I simply can not enjoy it while its going on.

I'm mainly referring to the launch of the rocket that takes Cooper up into space.

What's left of #NASA is apparently at #NORAD in #CheyenneMountain.

First off, Cheyenne Mountain is near fucking #ColoradoSprings, #Colorado.

We all saw what happened to Space X's launch facilities on the #Texas coast and how the launch pad was utterly destroyed sending debris flying everywhere.

Trying to launch a fucking ROCKET from inside a mountain? AYFKM? (And Cheyenne Mountain is basically a bunch of pre-fabricated offices and rooms sitting on springs in a giant cavern dug out of the mountain. It's not a missile silo!)

Also, there's a reason we launch rockets from #CapeCanaveral, #Florida or #FrenchGuyana or hell even #Houston, Texas. The closer you are to the equator, the more you can use the earth's own rotation to help speed you up and help you reach escape velocity with less fuel.

(Of course not all launches do that, launches to put a payload into polar orbit are a bit different.)

But to launch a rocket from fucking Colorado Springs? Not to mention a multi-stage rocket like what's depicted in Interstellar? AYFKM?

You're going to be dropping your launch stage over the fucking United States. Good luck to whomever is walking their dog down below as a several-ton piece of metal comes crashing out of the sky!

And let's talk about the launch facility "inside" Cheyenne Mountain as depicted in the movie.

Dr. Brand presses a button and the wall to the conference room moves revealing the rocket ship that everyone is working on just outside that wall.

The same rocket ship they want to launch Coop in to go into space.

Well...

Bye bye anyone and everyone and every thing that's in Cheyenne Mountain when that fucking rocket launches.

But later on in the movie they show scenes in that same conference room with Dr. Brand continuing to work on his "gravity equation".

Fuck me.

Yes, I know it's a movie. Yes, I know about suspending belief and just getting into the story and enjoying it.

And for most movies I can. (Although Jeff Goldblum being able to use an Apple MacBook to link up with some alien technology wirelessly and upload a virus to an alien mothership back in 1996 I will never forgive. Even if his dad is Judd Hirsch and he's a Cable TV Repairman. AppleTalk and LocalTalk were bad enough back then.)

But at least make the setup and the scenarios plausible!

Is that too much to ask?

Watching #Interstellar again and while I love the #movie, and I love the musical score even more, bits of this movie are so fucking insane that it literally causes a core meltdown in my brain and I simply can not enjoy it while its going on.

I'm mainly referring to the launch of the rocket that takes Cooper up into space.

What's left of #NASA is apparently at #NORAD in #CheyenneMountain.

First off, Cheyenne Mountain is near fucking #ColoradoSprings, #Colorado.

We all saw what happened to Space X's launch facilities on the #Texas coast and how the launch pad was utterly destroyed sending debris flying everywhere.

Trying to launch a fucking ROCKET from inside a mountain? AYFKM? (And Cheyenne Mountain is basically a bunch of pre-fabricated offices and rooms sitting on springs in a giant cavern dug out of the mountain. It's not a missile silo!)

Also, there's a reason we launch rockets from #CapeCanaveral, #Florida or #FrenchGuyana or hell even #Houston, Texas. The closer you are to the equator, the more you can use the earth's own rotation to help speed you up and help you reach escape velocity with less fuel.

(Of course not all launches do that, launches to put a payload into polar orbit are a bit different.)

But to launch a rocket from fucking Colorado Springs? Not to mention a multi-stage rocket like what's depicted in Interstellar? AYFKM?

You're going to be dropping your launch stage over the fucking United States. Good luck to whomever is walking their dog down below as a several-ton piece of metal comes crashing out of the sky!

And let's talk about the launch facility "inside" Cheyenne Mountain as depicted in the movie.

Dr. Brand presses a button and the wall to the conference room moves revealing the rocket ship that everyone is working on just outside that wall.

The same rocket ship they want to launch Coop in to go into space.

Well...

Bye bye anyone and everyone and every thing that's in Cheyenne Mountain when that fucking rocket launches.

But later on in the movie they show scenes in that same conference room with Dr. Brand continuing to work on his "gravity equation".

Fuck me.

Yes, I know it's a movie. Yes, I know about suspending belief and just getting into the story and enjoying it.

And for most movies I can. (Although Jeff Goldblum being able to use an Apple MacBook to link up with some alien technology wirelessly and upload a virus to an alien mothership back in 1996 I will never forgive. Even if his dad is Judd Hirsch and he's a Cable TV Repairman. AppleTalk and LocalTalk were bad enough back then.)

But at least make the setup and the scenarios plausible!

Is that too much to ask?

Watching #Interstellar again and while I love the #movie, and I love the musical score even more, bits of this movie are so fucking insane that it literally causes a core meltdown in my brain and I simply can not enjoy it while its going on.

I'm mainly referring to the launch of the rocket that takes Cooper up into space.

What's left of #NASA is apparently at #NORAD in #CheyenneMountain.

First off, Cheyenne Mountain is near fucking #ColoradoSprings, #Colorado.

We all saw what happened to Space X's launch facilities on the #Texas coast and how the launch pad was utterly destroyed sending debris flying everywhere.

Trying to launch a fucking ROCKET from inside a mountain? AYFKM? (And Cheyenne Mountain is basically a bunch of pre-fabricated offices and rooms sitting on springs in a giant cavern dug out of the mountain. It's not a missile silo!)

Also, there's a reason we launch rockets from #CapeCanaveral, #Florida or #FrenchGuyana or hell even #Houston, Texas. The closer you are to the equator, the more you can use the earth's own rotation to help speed you up and help you reach escape velocity with less fuel.

(Of course not all launches do that, launches to put a payload into polar orbit are a bit different.)

But to launch a rocket from fucking Colorado Springs? Not to mention a multi-stage rocket like what's depicted in Interstellar? AYFKM?

You're going to be dropping your launch stage over the fucking United States. Good luck to whomever is walking their dog down below as a several-ton piece of metal comes crashing out of the sky!

And let's talk about the launch facility "inside" Cheyenne Mountain as depicted in the movie.

Dr. Brand presses a button and the wall to the conference room moves revealing the rocket ship that everyone is working on just outside that wall.

The same rocket ship they want to launch Coop in to go into space.

Well...

Bye bye anyone and everyone and every thing that's in Cheyenne Mountain when that fucking rocket launches.

But later on in the movie they show scenes in that same conference room with Dr. Brand continuing to work on his "gravity equation".

Fuck me.

Yes, I know it's a movie. Yes, I know about suspending belief and just getting into the story and enjoying it.

And for most movies I can. (Although Jeff Goldblum being able to use an Apple MacBook to link up with some alien technology wirelessly and upload a virus to an alien mothership back in 1996 I will never forgive. Even if his dad is Judd Hirsch and he's a Cable TV Repairman. AppleTalk and LocalTalk were bad enough back then.)

But at least make the setup and the scenarios plausible!

Is that too much to ask?