Keep looking out on the news, people, because Team Buoy's abnormal container will be on it. That's right....alien objects will be falling to Earth late Friday afternoon.
So the design is basically a cylinder (Clorox bottle) with tennis balls and duct tape. The tennis balls are to absorb any impact the container might encounter and help it float. The duct tape is to make it waterproof (and because nothing can go wrong with duct tape). Not only does this thing have enough tennis balls to make any dog's dream (and enough duct tape to make mine), it's useful.
We have not factored in a shutter camera simply because we find this idea ridiculous and nonsensical. I'm just kidding. But we're going to fill the inside with felt and Georgio, the anorexic squirrel. A thin film of plastic covers the whole that the camera lens is near. However, this plastic was punctured some time between today and yesterday (I blame Steven the Squirrel) so we must reattach it with great haste for the date is approaching!
During one of our trial runs, the container withstood the impact of falling for three-thousand feet into a pool of crocodiles then jumping through a flaming hoop. But the camera ran out of battery! I blame Gavin. So we only got film of me saying "We're like the creators of the Titanic."
The launch is going to be Friday around 1:20 (of course you know this, but what if I have a stalker) at an unspecified location on the peaks of the Himalayas. We'll be doing this with the Arcadia kids and some nice Mexicans who said they would act as sherpas for us...Just kidding.
Also, if you type in "camera into space" on google images, one of the pictures on the first page is of Connor and Will and our stalker-maps of SC. Pretty exciting. Well, in my opinion, it most definitely is.
So, we need to get this thing up into space....the final frontier.
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