Source: [url]http://www.space.com/15547-saturn-5-rocket-gunshots-damage.html[/url]
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A historic Saturn V rocket was damaged by gunfire Thursday (May 3), after someone shot three bullets into the Alabama museum where the mighty moon booster is on display.
The gunshots were fired just before 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) outside the Davidson Center for Space Exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. The shots may have been fired from a moving vehicle traveling along Interstate 565, which runs parallel to the booster's window-fronted building, according to the Huntsville Police Department (HPD).
"Preliminary information indicates that there were three rounds fired, hitting 30 to 100 feet [9 to 30 meters] apart, which leads us to believe they were fired from a moving vehicle on the interstate," HPD communications director Harry Hobbs wrote in an e-mail to collectSPACE.com.
"The rounds were likely fired from a rifle, judging from the velocity needed to penetrate the glass," Hobbs said.
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Fucking idiots.
Why the fuck would you shoot? Usually there is some valid-albeit bullshit reason. This seems to have no motivation what so ever.
Maybe they thought it was a missile, and that it would explode if they shot it.
I can't even imagine what logic the criminal(s) were going by by doing this.
Seems completely pointless.
Fuck people
[QUOTE]Space Exploration at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, [b]Alabama[/b][/QUOTE]
I'm less surprised now.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;35830205]Why the fuck would you shoot? Usually there is some valid-albeit bullshit reason. This seems to have no motivation what so ever.[/QUOTE]
Alabama.
Wonderful. What the hell did Huntsville ever do to them? And my great grandfather helped build that damn thing. Bastards.
[editline]4th May 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;35830259]Alabama.[/QUOTE]That's not Alabama. They were going to get rid of the thing and we fought to save the thing and keep it.
What the FUCK. morons!
nothing more fun than going out on a thursday with a couple drinkin buddies with loaded rifles and shootin up the broadsides of big buildings
Look at it, it's begging to be shot, it's just sitting there teasing everyone who drives by:
[IMG]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/cecilb6/one.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/cecilb6/two.jpg[/IMG]
I imagine it wouldn't be exceedingly difficult to repair, the exterior of the rocket is basically sheet metal.
Despite that, someone has an extreme shortage of brain cells to do this...
taking a shot at america's solid-fuel dong
I find it funny that people are calling those responsible "fucking idiots" and geting angry at them saying that they probably didn't have any reason to shoot at the rocket. Hey, why don't we consider that they did it to work people up, and if that was the case then they pretty much got what they wanted.
Seriously, get angry everyone. It will do literally nothing and is probably what those responsible wanted.
well huntsville is kind of a shithole
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;35830468]Look at it, it's begging to be shot, it's just sitting there teasing everyone who drives by:
[IMG]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/cecilb6/one.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y170/cecilb6/two.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That's not the one they shot at.
They shot at the one inside the Davidson Center, which is that long glass-sided building next to it.
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Davidson_Center-27527-2.jpg[/img_thumb]
That's the one they shot at.
I've stood under the one they have standing upright in northern Alabama a few times over the years. But this being Huntsville, doesn't surprise me someone would do this. There's a few cities you just want to avoid at all costs in the southeast of America. Memphis, Montgomery, Huntsville, Miami, And any group of streets in any large city named after the states of America. Alabama's interstates, especially near Montgomery, are the fucking WORST too
put snipers on the roof
problem solved
(trololololol)
Neil deGrasse Tyson is going to be pissed.
watch [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtSXFa6BeI"]this[/URL], they are the guy with the IQ of 13
that's literally how they act I bet
[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;35830254]Fuck people
I'm less surprised now.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;35830259]Alabama.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35831123]well huntsville is kind of a shithole[/QUOTE]
I knew this was going to come up... I bet none of you guys have ever been to Huntsville.
[QUOTE=Zombii;35831237]That's not the one they shot at.
They shot at the one inside the Davidson Center, which is that long glass-sided building next to it.
[img_thumb]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Davidson_Center-27527-2.jpg[/img_thumb]
That's the one they shot at.[/QUOTE]
That's not very sporting of them, they shot it when it was laying down.
Whats with all of the Alabama hate?
There is this strange behavior going on where people realize that Huntsville along with Huston and Miami were the main cites for NASA programs,
but as soon as one idiot does something stupid in Alabama suddenly the city is a ghetto full of ignorant inbred hicks.
Idiots don't live in one particular place.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;35831106]I find it funny that people are calling those responsible "fucking idiots" and geting angry at them saying that they probably didn't have any reason to shoot at the rocket. Hey, why don't we consider that they did it to work people up, and if that was the case then they pretty much got what they wanted.
Seriously, get angry everyone. It will do literally nothing and is probably what those responsible wanted.[/QUOTE]
"Stop feeding the trolls, They're just shooting things so you get mad."
[QUOTE=jaaaaymeeeen;35831716]Whats with all of the Alabama hate?
There is this strange behavior going on where people realize that Huntsville along with Huston and Miami were the main cites for NASA programs,
but as soon as one idiot does something stupid in Alabama suddenly the city is a ghetto full of ignorant inbred hicks.
Idiots don't live in one particular place.[/QUOTE]
People see Antoine Dodson and immediately think Huntsville is full of knuckle draggers. It really is a nice place to live and it's full of well educated peoples of SCIEEENCE!!
[QUOTE=jaaaaymeeeen;35831716]Whats with all of the Alabama hate?
Idiots don't live in one particular place.[/QUOTE]
New Jersey
[QUOTE=timman;35831765]People see Antoine Dodson and immediately think Huntsville is full of knuckle draggers. It really is a nice place to live and it's full of well educated peoples of SCIEEENCE!![/QUOTE]
I say it's the general opinion on the South of how they're portrayed everywhere as backwards, racist hicks which isn't the case. I mean in the deeper part of Alabama you'll find those people but in more civilized area's like Huntsville, Florence, Auburn, etc you find regular people.
Believe it or not, there are alot of Christian radicals who strongly oppose space exploration.
I remember hearing about a group of Christians shooting at multi million dollar piece of telescope equipment. When they were brought in they said, " They don't need to be looking for proof, we already have proof that god exists", or something among those lines.
[QUOTE=Kel|oggs;35832125]Believe it or not, there are alot of Christian radicals who strongly oppose space exploration.
I remember hearing about a group of Christians shooting at multi million dollar piece of telescope equipment. When they were brought in they said, " They need to be looking for proof, we already have proof that god exists", or something among those lines.[/QUOTE]
I knew someone would find a way to blame it on religion.
[QUOTE=Zambies!;35830205]Why the fuck would you shoot? Usually there is some valid-albeit bullshit reason. This seems to have no motivation what so ever.[/QUOTE]
It doesn't help that they damaged what could arguably be considered the pinnacle of coolness.
There are museums in Alabama?
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