Saturday, January 24, 2009

Rocket Launch

So today we had a get together with a group of friends and we had leaders from our church join us for our "adult" supervision to launch model rockets. The first ridiculous part of the morning was it was negative, let me repeat NEGATIVE six degrees without windchill. AND the launch site had a good two to three feet of snow covering the ground. So we all came with light spring jackets and tennis shoes and made our rockets. There was a wide range of sizes of rockets and each requiring different engines. The biggest rockets usually take about a engine 5. And the smallest one takes a 1. So we all launched our rockets successfully and got a lot of joy! Then we realized, crap, we cant feel our hands or feet. We all ran through the field back to the house and dethawed. Then of course we went out again, but this time we were prepared, we wore plastic bags over our feet! And thats just the start of it. So for the finale we put an engine 5 into a rocket that takes an engine 1. We figure well it'll either blow up, land on a roof, or hit one of us leaving us severely burned. Well why not try it! We launched the rocket and it automatically spazzed out and we all hit the ground. It flew over our heads in circles until ending up smashing into the ground burying itself two feet into the ground. We all laughed of course, not thinking at all what really could have happened to us. So overall it was a typical teenage guy get together! I wonder what's going to happen next...

1 comment:

Autumn said...

Oh, I can see it now! LOL