Please note this is not a fake picture I took it as I said today
We are out for a meal in a bit, what with
it being leap year and today is that extra day. It sounds great an extra day,
only its an extra school day so I am still pondering whether I end up just
doing one more day at school. Still it was an interesting day as Esmeralda with
assistance from class 16AB+ celebrated the 29th Feb with the launch
of Britain ’s
first manned flight into space. Well I say manned because as everyone pointed
out the school mascot, the Goat is the same weight as a man.
I even got a fairly good
photograph of the rocket as it was approaching the height to jettison the
boaster jets required for takeoff. Thanks to the mathematics teachers it was
worked out they would fall to earth in Mr Evans the farmer’s field which they
did, it was unfortunate that the sheep were standing where they were at the
time. But on the bright side it was roast lamb and crackling for lunch YUM,
although the slight aroma of aviation fuel did put some of the girls off.
The flight was going well
right up to the point that mission control, the geography class said to the
goat have you read the manual yet.
Even I knew that was a mistake the goat only knows a few words and red is one
of them. So it hit the red button and the next thing you know, we see the goat
quietly parachuting into the fresh vegetables section of the out of town supermarket
(again). Still although the goat did not make it into space and the US air force shot down the rocket for infringing
USA
airspace, it appears the Goat now holds the world record height attained by a
goat in a rocket.
The Lemming of Petrograd
have had a great day they love leap years and have celebrated in the
traditional lemming way. They love a great party of leaping off things after a
few Russian vodka’s but as mum says they will regret it in the morning. Still
they have four years to recover.
Oooooo by the way I got to
saw a 25ft tree down, yes I know sawing down trees sounds bad but it was
growing into some power lines and everyone thought who is stupid enough to try
and saw that down. So I thought WELL COOL, anyway it was only 25,000 volts or
was it 250,000 volts?
It was a nice day for a leap year
If you would have asked me ahead of time I could have told you that girls don't care care for rocket fuel, and they will usually say "ick" to sulfuric acid, but they seem to be at one with ace-t-one. (Fingernail polish remover)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the manned space flight.
Many many many years ago so the Ghost Writer has told me, he used to use loads of acetone in his research lab but he never wore fingernail polish.
DeleteI love anything to do with space travel. I sometimes think that I was born in the wrong era...people are generally so blase about space travel now.
ReplyDeleteHi Miss Stephanie, you are right no one thinks about just how perilous space travel is, mankind has stretched its technology to achieve the equivalent of the Wright brothers in terms of space travel.
DeleteStar Trek is a long way off yet, Channel 6 as it happens and I don't have a TV and you cant get further away than that.