A NUCLEAR ERROR
I hope she doesn’t teach this to those HEKs:
Jones also learned a few tidbits at the launch that she plans to teach children. She is a science and poetry teacher for home-schooled children, and this year she is teaching physics. She said she wants to make her class more interesting for students by sharing her launch experience with them. Jones also can tell them the few physics lessons she learned while at the Kennedy Space Center, such as aspects of gravity and why the smoke from the shuttle stays around after the launch.
…Her seats were three miles away from the space shuttle. It was the closest anyone could be because, if something went wrong, there could have been a nuclear explosion, she said.
There is, of course, no fissionable material on the shuttle.
Bonus points for identifying the late ’70s tune that provided the title.
5 Responses to “A NUCLEAR ERROR”
 Comment by Scott Somerville August 7th, 2006 at 8:59 am |
The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in |
 Comment by Stephanie August 7th, 2006 at 11:15 am |
Maybe my kids should come teach her about how the shuttle is *really* powered. |
 Comment by Daryl Cobranchi August 7th, 2006 at 11:28 am |
However, I suspect this is an example of his superior Google-fu I expect you’re right. I’ve listed to “London Calling” 100s of times (as recently as 1 week ago while mowing the lawn) and I STILL can’t understand all the lyrics. |
 Comment by Rikki August 7th, 2006 at 1:29 pm |
You don’t know that! I bet FSM actually touches the shuttle with his noodly appendage, making it soar through the air. And if HE (pbuh) wished it, it could blow up in a spectacular nuclear explosion by magic. Especially if they didn’t pack enough ‘astronaut ice cream’ to honor FSM with! |
 Comment by NMcV August 7th, 2006 at 6:46 pm |
Even in outer space, you have to pinch the edges of the bread so the Tang doesn’t fall out of the sandwich. |