I thought this just looked like fun, so I don’t want to be too cynical about it, but I imagine that this is still closer to a moonshot than anything we can expect under Obama’s NASA.
Plus, less Muslimy.
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Do NOT let college students see ths.
Beautiful. Fun.
Coca-Cola will sponsor anything.
P.A. systems ruin the pleasure of nearly everything.
great fun!
Mount a counter-rotating swivel chair at the center of the hub, give me a WWI aviators helmet with goggles, a gas mask and a parachute, and I’d ride it! Yee-Haw!
I am now motivated to build one of these in my back yard…. think the neighbors will complain?
ESSAYONS!
I think I originally saw this on that History Channel programme ‘Secret Space weapons of the Nazis’.
The Chinese sell a smaller version for a buck on the days leading up to the 4th of July…
Unfortunately the EPA has outlawed it because the parachute dye made from ethanol caused corn to be labeled an endangered grain and
anything serprntine to cause serpents to have second thoughts!