A psychoanalyst might see the shift from blastoff to blast as a weird kind of substitute gratification.
At least Fritz Lang, whose 1926 film Metropolis rashly peopled the world of 2000 with beautiful robots and an oppressed race of subterranean workers, redeemed himself three years later by inventing the '5, 4, 3, 2, 1' countdown to blastoff in the film Woman In The Moon.
Details from Labour are as yet unconfirmed.
Japandroid's album is called Celebration Rock and yet it has a song on it called "Continuous Thunder" that is not a riff-driven blastoff so much as it's a neo-emo boo hoo hoo about resolutely holding hands with somebody in the rain which opens with the lyric "heart's terrain is never a prairie".
As a kid, in the sixties, I was awed, amazed, inspired by the seeming gracefulness of the colossal blastoffs from Cape Kennedy, but also understood it as a marvel of science, a realm that aroused my dreams and ambitions and in which I planned to make my career.
From individuals and as a team.
Many a best-selling novel got its blastoff not from a chain, but from the word-of-mouth generated by the independents, making their importance often far greater proportionally than their size.
Draw from your experience as an employee.
"The Soyuz rocket is very robust," the Nasa official said, describing how he once attended a blastoff during a blizzard with zero visibility.
Russia launched the missile four days after leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, meeting in Chicago, confirmed their commitment to building the European missile shield, rendering the blastoff something of a Russian retort.
Start from that as a baseline.
