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Las Vegas – Many eyes will be scanning the heavens at midnight tonight when a light (snack) show is scheduled to illuminate the desert sky with flaming marshmallows. A privately financed rocket will barely complete an orbit of the earth before ejecting its reentry canister containing a jumbo economy
pack of 10,000 tightly-packed marshmallows.
To promote a new line of donut-shaped marshmallows, the company will shower a precise target area with toasted goodies. A spokesman answering agitated questions why only ordinary marshmallows will be dropped, explained that tests confirmed that the new donut shape had a terminal velocity no greater than a penny thrown off a skyscraper.
Though labeled by NASA as bad science, the white-hot canister is planned to release its load at an exact altitude and position to ensure medium singed treats landing on uninhabited wasteland. Cars full of spectators are already clogging the main highway, and some have even entered the restricted zone to brave the fiery fallout and possibly catch a space marshmallow with outspread sheets, butterfly nets and sharpened sticks.
This would be why we don't have marshmallow space suits.
http://phun.physics...os/marshmallow.html
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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No! En Oh! Does it have to come from
space? Can it not just be part of a
fireworks display? Environmental
disaster! What are the chances that
someone will accidentially catch a
flaming marshmallow covered dead
bird? Can humans even survive this hot
marshmallow pelting? <grin>Think of
the thousands who will flock to that
spot only to meet with a painful demise.
I
can hear the screaming in my mind.
Nevermind, it's brilliant!<g> ++ |
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Maybe Mr. Stay Puft, The Marshmallow Man could cut the ribbon for the launch. |
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I believe Rods suggested this as a way to cook meatballs once. |
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It was in an annotation to one of my old now-gone ideas. No worries. |
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Okay, but if even one of those god damned things lands on my car... |
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<orsonwelles>Meanwhile, on a mountain top in Chile....</orsonwelles> |
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"My word...look at this Sanderson...somehow they're all coelescing...now she's expanding...Dear God man, call the government...its an Extinction level Mallow." |
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Don't they allow marshmallows on space shuttles? |
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<wondering> If the NASA put marshmallow tiles on the space shuttle and after reentry cut the tiles into tiny little pieces to sell at the space exhibition in Huntsville, AL, for $5 each, could they make enough money to finance the next launch?</w> |
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Only if they can find enough of them, in Nevada, Texas, Louisiana... |
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<random thought> Sschkrrkk! beep... Ah, Houston, we have a problem. The tiles on the primary heat shield appear to be on fire. Sschkrrkk! beep... |
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Yeah, it's all fun and games until the Triffids arrive... |
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I think they would just burn up if they
were launched from space/ |
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I suppose if you dropped big enough mallows (the size of a car for instance), they would survive the re-entry, with the top layers burning away leaving a lightly toasted centre!
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I suppose if you dropped big enough mallows (the size of a car for instance), they would survive the re-entry, with the top layers burning away leaving a lightly toasted centre! |
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