Wenhop
A phrase coined by nasaspaceflight during the SpaceX starship SN8 high altitude flight test livestream.
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wenhop?
Most often used as a single word question sentence in the context of an upcoming, anticipated launch of a flying machine, especially a rocket. The questioner is impatient and the launch cannot come soon enough.
wenhop? = When will this rocket or other flying machine actually fly?
wenhop? = When will this rocket or other flying machine actually fly?
Bob: Ingenuity is getting ready for another flight on Mars!
Alice: wenhop?
On a YouTube channel or other interactive Internet venue covering a rocket launch, hours, days or weeks before the event may/might/could take place.
In many cases the questioner is hyper-focused on the launch date, to the exclusion of all else:
- Various livestream chat comments (or non-livestream comments) about the launch Blah, blah, blah....
- wenhop?
- Various replies: - Thursday. - Who knows. - I dunno...
- Various livestream chat comments about the launch Blah, blah, blah....
- wenhop?
- Various replies: - Maybe next week. - Who knows. - I dunno......or no reply.
- wenhop?
- Various replies, other comments, or no replies, as above.
- wenhop?
- The question comes up repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly...until the launch/flight takes place.
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Alice: wenhop?
On a YouTube channel or other interactive Internet venue covering a rocket launch, hours, days or weeks before the event may/might/could take place.
In many cases the questioner is hyper-focused on the launch date, to the exclusion of all else:
- Various livestream chat comments (or non-livestream comments) about the launch Blah, blah, blah....
- wenhop?
- Various replies: - Thursday. - Who knows. - I dunno...
- Various livestream chat comments about the launch Blah, blah, blah....
- wenhop?
- Various replies: - Maybe next week. - Who knows. - I dunno......or no reply.
- wenhop?
- Various replies, other comments, or no replies, as above.
- wenhop?
- The question comes up repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly...until the launch/flight takes place.
- wenhop?
- Blah, blah, blah....
-wenhop?
- Blah, blah, blah....
-wenhop?
- Blah, blah, blah....
-wenhop?
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