It must be true. UPI news service said it is, so it must be true.
A bunch of Ashburton elementary school kids apparently flung a potato into the air and it went 17 miles into space before it finally fell to the earth.
Well, they didn’t actually throw it. According to Hilary Gibbard of Landscove Village Primary School in England, her students attached the pomme de terre to a weather balloon. Then they launched it in a soda bottle space capsule.
And that’s not all. Obviously getting into the Christmas season a bit early, the children dressed up the potato as Santa Claus. Imagine that … a Santa Spud.The balloon popped about 19,000 feet high, and Mr. Santa Potato Head made a lengthy descent, landing 140 miles away in a … (and I find this a bit difficult to swallow) … Christmas tree farm. I wonder how mashed it was, or if it only suffered a few chips.
Anyway, that’s all the exciting news I could take yesterday.
Santa Spud indeed!
2 comments:
Doesn't a potato falling to earth like seem kind of ... dangerous? A falling spud is not how I want to bite it.
I wonder about the whole falling back to the ground thing, too. Seems a bit chancy.
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