that would be awesome!

I totally agree!

 Instructables is not a public company. Yes I have done searches in NYSE and found nothing. Not even MAKE: is large enough to go public.

 I know that, I'm just excited about it anyways :)

 I would buy enough to be a major shareholder!

Hello Boardmember of Instructables!

They just rent the tower from the gov't.

thats a shame I guess. Can you blow stuff up on it out there? Or is that damaging government property? It must be pretty awesome having that much space in the bay area.

 Tetranitrate has a video of the Mythbusters testing the water heater rocket on the runway.

ing, the last three letters, ing, solder_ing

Listen to the video - they pronounce it sodder-ing, instead of the correct form, soul-der-ing.

I have no idea. Different dialects of English?

oh, well then i do it both ways.

Apparently the English roots in Australia have Brought that pronunciation, The Australian roots In Me From my father have now brought that pronunciation to CANADA YAY!

cause then you'd sound, well, like your from england, no offence

Wait... do they in other countries?

Because as soon as you say the "l" - someone is there to correct you :p

yep kiteman that has had me wondering for ages it sounds like there saying"sordering" to me?? so come on our good friends across the pond explain it to us? lol:)

This reminds me of when my step mom from Australia was applying for her permanent residency here in the US and her and my Dad were at the immigration office filling out forms. They had a question about one of the instructions on the form and went to the desk to ask for clarification. The person on duty started to say "Well I do not see what the problem is, it is written in plain Eng." and caught himself and corrected himself saying it was written in American. We are just a different dialect of the language, for the most part it is very similar but our spelling on many things is different as well as our pronunciation. Also there are many words that are used differently as well, some obvious and some not. Just my $0.02

for the same reason we don't say the "h" in "herb"...we're just...sigh...just take pity on us. please. However, I must note that the way Brits pronounce "aluminum" is flat-out ridiculous.

I'm from the UK, and heres my two PENNIES about aluminum-aluminium Well see here's the thing. Aluminium, broken down into its constituent parts is an -ium word, you Americans too have lots of -ium chemistry words- polonium, uranium etc. pronounced correctly. As far as I'm concerned Aluminum is spoken plain wrong for this reason. Its incorrect but has entered your language as a norm, and is accepted by you. This is fair enough though, theres tonnes of examples in history of word shortening becoming the norm on both sides of the pond, in fact throughout the world. But zoxx thinking that OUR pronunication is wrong is in itself flat-out ridiculous, a complete reversal of the truth that its originally an -ium word!!

We don't say aluminum.

We don't have that word in our dictionary.

It even upsets the Firefox spell-checker.

The word we use is aluminium.

weird, i never say anything incorrect, but whenever i do say something correct, somebody in the US corrects me. Wateva. Aluminum doesnt upset the firefox dictionary here, weird

fantastic. keep it up. *_*

you say tamato we say tomato lol

in practice it's sounds better than illuminum but the whole word is ridiculous...

I still can't get over /soddering/ vs /soldering/

i head a better one a couple days ago, he pronounced it Saldering

Me either - I prefer the latter.

I just realized I can...
I thought I had a problem, but I *was* saying it right!

I used to think it was sohlduring. Not spelled that way, but not said as "Solduring", which is the right way.

I do, but my friends look at me funny.

Because we are not as cool as you tea drinkers. ( I actually like tea, but don't let the US Government know. They will have me killed) :)

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Not where I live. Where I live old people drink tea and everyone else gets shit faced (drunk) and goes ice fishing. Call me weird. JK (BTW I never gotten shit faced or gone ice fishing) I dont really feel the need to sit on a frozen lake for hours at a time freezing my ass off.