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Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by jawns on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:37AM (#11628194)
There's a really great throwaway joke in the caption of one of the illustrations that accompany the story.

In the image captioned "The trajectory of a Falcon 9 booster from launch to landing," the caption directs the reader: "Click to vonbraunenate."

I googled "vonbraunenate," and there were only a handful of results aside from this particular article.

So then I googled "von braun," and of course, the first result that came up was the Wikipedia entry for Wernher von Braun.

So what's the connection?

Von Braun was an aerospace engineer who "developed the rockets that launched United States first space satellite and first series of manned lunar missions."

Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by arethuza on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:58AM (#11628367)
Von Braun's biopic was called "I Aim at the Stars" - some wit suggested that it should also have the subtitle "(But Sometimes I Hit London)"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Aim_at_the_Stars

Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by Aelinsaar on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:24AM (#11628559)
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down. That's not my department says Wernher Von Braun"
Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by user24 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:41AM (#11628233)
I get the connection, I don't get the joke...
Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by samsari on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:52AM (#11628317)
Diagrams are occasionally labelled "click to explode".
Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by Frompo on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:59AM (#11628371)
Yeah, verbifying von Braun doesn't make something with a clear meaning.
Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by jawns on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:35AM (#11628632)
Typically, the text would read something like "Click to zoom."

Which is what rockets do.

Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by curtis on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @01:53PM (#11630186)
Phil Plait has a long history of using phrases like "Click to X" where X is some made up verb.

Try this Google search: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22phil+plait%22+%22cli...

In the first few results I see:

Click to vonbraunenate

Click to embiggen

Click to barsoomenate

Click to enaurumenate

Click to cascadienate

Etc.

Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by robodale on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:46AM (#11628272)
I noticed vonbraunenate as well, and assumed it was the name of the flickr account that owned the Falcon 9 trajectory image...but I didn't catch the Von Braun reference until you mentioned it. Good catch!
Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by lucian1900 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:43AM (#11628239)
Phil Plait puts that sort of thing in most of his articles.
Re:SpaceX announces a mission to land on Mars by 2018 by jccooper on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:14PM (#11629375)
Von Braun in known for designing ever-larger rockets, culminating in the Saturn V (and continuing on paper). Goes along with "click to enlarge".