From something I am editing (about the Space Shuttle):
"It took 20 months before the engine was capable of a 5-second burp at 100 percent."
A 5-second burp sounds fun--if you're 12!
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Never burp at 100%. It is almost always fatal. My greatest burp was at 22%, and incapacitated me for days.
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