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What did you do at work this week?

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There's my tax money. :cry:
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Missile Command. First thing I thought of and Googled. I play a lot of Atari as a kid and loved Missile command. Cant believe the birth of color video games are available online!

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Nevermind, they raped Missile Command.
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I remember when the first article about working on this prototype came out towards the end of last year. I think it's cool that it's successful.
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Now you just need to tell us which one is you?
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Shrapnel wrote: What did you do at work this week?
This week I didn't do anything because my lab is closed because of government shutdown. But usually I build stuff that enables crap like this.
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Related video showing real test footage of a similar technology as the final tracking stage of the intercept missile:
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I didn't make the cut for the video. :?

Here's the launch filmed from my phone.

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“Nice!“

Thanks for sharing Shrap, very interesting!
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woo
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That's some top class engineering right there!!
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Shrap you lucky bastard, having fun at work! :thumbup:
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they show the allies Tech Center in the video. saved gas for soviet spy plane.
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