It's not rocket science
It's uncomplicated
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It's not rocket science = das ist keine höhere Mathematik; es geht ja nicht um Quantenphysik; es ist leicht zu verstehen woerterbuch.info --- GOOGLE INDEX it's not rocket science: approximately 340,000 hits
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IN THE PRESS
"It's not ROCKET SCIENCE. It's less calories and more exercise and you're going to improve your health."
- former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson
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The technology to pass fuel from one plane to another may not be ROCKET SCIENCE, but it helped Airbus and its partner, Northrop Grumman, establish their technical reputations.
(International Herald Tribune)
- former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson
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The technology to pass fuel from one plane to another may not be ROCKET SCIENCE, but it helped Airbus and its partner, Northrop Grumman, establish their technical reputations.
(International Herald Tribune)
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it's not rocket science
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WORD ORIGIN
Like many inventors, Robert Goddard, American physicist and creator of the first liquid-propelled rocket, didn't have it easy during the early days of his career. His 1919 book outlining his mathematical theories of rocket flight and exploration of the earth's atmosphere earned him national attention and criticism.
In 1929, after one of his experimental rockets rose a mere 41 feet (14 metres), a local newspaper carried the headline "Moon rocket misses target by 238,799.5 miles."
When the Smithsonian Institute released an article in January 1920 written by Goddard discussing a "multiple charge high efficiency rocket" that could carry recording devices to extreme altitudes within the earth's atmosphere and then fall straight back down to earth, the New York Times didn't waste time ridiculing Goddard's concept and wrote:
"After the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey it will neither be accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges. To claim that it would, is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen are licensed to do that."
Forty-nine years later, on July 17, 1969, the day after the launch of Apollo 11, the New York Times published a short item under the headline "A Correction," summarising its 1920 editorial mocking Goddard.
They concluded by saying, "Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error."
It was just rocket science after all :-)
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SYNONYMS
It doesn't take a rocket scientist. You don't have to be Einstein to know that.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Basic business is not ROCKET SCIENCE, just sell at a price higher than total costs."
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QUICK, before you go, CONSOLIDATE YOUR MEMORY !
A next-day review boosts memory by 70%
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WORD ORIGIN
Like many inventors, Robert Goddard, American physicist and creator of the first liquid-propelled rocket, didn't have it easy during the early days of his career. His 1919 book outlining his mathematical theories of rocket flight and exploration of the earth's atmosphere earned him national attention and criticism.
In 1929, after one of his experimental rockets rose a mere 41 feet (14 metres), a local newspaper carried the headline "Moon rocket misses target by 238,799.5 miles."
When the Smithsonian Institute released an article in January 1920 written by Goddard discussing a "multiple charge high efficiency rocket" that could carry recording devices to extreme altitudes within the earth's atmosphere and then fall straight back down to earth, the New York Times didn't waste time ridiculing Goddard's concept and wrote:
"After the rocket quits our air and really starts on its longer journey it will neither be accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the charges. To claim that it would, is to deny a fundamental law of dynamics, and only Dr. Einstein and his chosen dozen are licensed to do that."
Forty-nine years later, on July 17, 1969, the day after the launch of Apollo 11, the New York Times published a short item under the headline "A Correction," summarising its 1920 editorial mocking Goddard.
They concluded by saying, "Further investigation and experimentation have confirmed the findings of Isaac Newton in the 17th century and it is now definitely established that a rocket can function in a vacuum as well as in an atmosphere. The Times regrets the error."
It was just rocket science after all :-)
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SYNONYMS
It doesn't take a rocket scientist. You don't have to be Einstein to know that.
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Basic business is not ROCKET SCIENCE, just sell at a price higher than total costs."
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QUICK, before you go, CONSOLIDATE YOUR MEMORY !
A next-day review boosts memory by 70%
What was yesterday's OWAD?
Fehler, Schnitzer = B__-B__
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