I Like Other Planets
Published by Lisa Kansas May 25th, 2008 in Punkass!, Yay! Science!, Technology, sharing the awesome, Outer SpaceSeriously, I had all the ones in the Solar System memorized when I was six years old. Yeah, back when Pluto (a) was not only a planet but the smallest planet and (b) didn’t have a moon, and when Jupiter only had 9 moons and Saturn only had 12 moons…oh, those were the dayz…
Of course I realized by age 12 that people who got carsick riding to Grandma’s house probably weren’t cut out to be astronauts, so that killed THAT dream (sadness!). However, it didn’t kill my fascination with all things extraterrestrial, with the sole exceptions of crop circles and Scientologists.
So here I am Sharing Teh Awesome outer-space news. Enjoy!
The first-ever landing of a probe near Mars’ north pole happened smoothly on Sunday, NASA confirmed.
I stopped thinking about being an astronaut when I was six or seven, and someone told me you had to be a fighter pilot first. And of course girls can’t be fighter pilots, that’s just silly.
Ha. “Mission Specialist,” that’s me!
When I was in grade 2 I started building a moon rocket with some friends. We drew plans and made experiments with various propellants, from baking soda/vinegar mixture to gasoline. We never got any further than to create the very tip of the nose cone by melting some plastic trash in a bonfire and then pour it into a clay mold. But we had a lot of fun, although my parents got slightly worried when they learned that we had tried to make one liter of gas explode inside a metal container with stabiliser fins to see how high it would fly…
It’s great to see that some actually did what we hoped to do!