I took the girls to the model rocket store and the dungeons & dragons store for most of the game.
Yeah, that’s right.
awesome hobby.
way way back, I used to be a model rocketeer. My most memorable launch involved a Big Bertha rocket with a clear payload tube... like this one
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that rocket was nearly 4 feet long.... my buddy and I had determined that the only reason for a clear payload tube was so that the passengers could see outside.... passengers.....
so according to PBS, all scientific experiments were done with white mice...not just any old mouse,...but white mice... the pet store charges extra for those... but we used our allowance to get a nice fat one. like this
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so launch day comes...and before I went to my buddies house...I swiped a sensemilla joint from my older brother...you know,...just cuz..
we set up the launcher... then we sparked up the doobie to get high first. It occurred to me that space flight might be stressful...even for a white mouse... so we put him in a paper bag and exhaled all our smoke into it until the doobie was done.
You know, it seemed to work because the mouse was lots calmer when we took him out of the bag and put him in the payload chamber. he was just curious about what the fudge we were doing.
as we set the count down, the mouse is exploring the chamber,..looking out at us... then ZOOOOOMM.... Big Bertha launched.
Dude..it was glorious... I bet that giant Rocket went a thousand feet up!! It had like 3 Super C engines in it..totally badass...
So we see the chute deploy and run across the field tracjing it as it comes down..and we recover the rocket....and check on the mouse who was still inside.
Poor little dude... he was standing up,...arms splayed, mouth wide open..his little red eyes all bulging out, mouth wide in a silent scream with his tongue flapping all the way around to the back of his head...
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we waited a while. But unfortunately the test pilot didnt survive the flight. we intended to get some more engines and run a control flight. You know, to see if we got the same results when the mouse was not high. But we never got around to it because we got focused on putting the engines in toy cars and launching them over ramps across the canal... But I will always remember that look of AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! on that mouses face...made my mind up right then I was never gonna be an astronaut.