Why? Because it’s our destiny to send a rubber chicken into space and fire up our imagination make benefit humanity with astrotravelling rubber toys.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

SUBORBITAL CHICKEN: On Wednesday Sept. 5th a group of California high school students celebrated the 35th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1 in an unusual way: They launched a rubber chicken. The popular NASA mascot Camilla traveled to the top of our planet’s atmosphere on board a suborbital helium balloon. Here is a snapshot from an altitude of approximately 120,000 feet:

Camilla is wearing headphones. Why? Because she’s listening to the Golden iPod, the modern-day successor to the Golden Records bolted to the side of the Voyager probes. The students are updating the Golden Records with 21st-century content that the students would like to send into the cosmos. This was just a test flight; in 2013, they hope to launch the Golden iPod into Earth orbit onboard a CubeSat they are building.

At the apex of the Sept. 5th suborbital flight, the helium balloon popped as planned and Camilla parachuted back to Earth. The students, who call their group “Earth to Sky,” recovered Camilla and the Golden iPod from a remote landing site in the Nevada wilderness on Sept. 6th. Now they are all enjoying music that has been to the doorstep of space itself.

More information about the flight and the recovery expedition may be found at Earth to Sky’s Facebook page. Students who wish to participate in the Golden iPod project can submit their ideas for the iPod’s playlist at goldenipod.org.

https://www.facebook.com/NASA.Camilla.SDO

A heroic rubber chicken with vision and imagination unlike all the pessimists and wannabes that hang around here.

Golden iPod! PMSL

I thought it was Zarky!

i don’t suppose you could post this over there too?

Bubble Car said:

A heroic rubber chicken with vision and imagination unlike all the pessimists and wannabes that hang around here.

Yes. This chicken is on the coal front of science, the epitome of man’s boundless imagination. To the stars and beyond!

Divine Angel said:

Bubble Car said:

A heroic rubber chicken with vision and imagination unlike all the pessimists and wannabes that hang around here.

Yes. This chicken is on the coal front of science, the epitome of man’s boundless imagination. To the stars and beyond!

Indeed, we should ask NASA if we can retrofit the chicken and use it for a manned mission to Mars.

Without reading all of this thread (in the best traditional manner) I have to say that anyone stumbling on this forum and reading it will have No Idea of the nuances.

:)

And now that I’ve read it……I am Greatly Amused.

buffy said:

Without reading all of this thread (in the best traditional manner) I have to say that anyone stumbling on this forum and reading it will have No Idea of the nuances.

:)

Wonderful, isn’t it?

Can the rubber Chicken be called Ivana Poulet, please?

I think we should call it Ivana Poulet.

pretty obvious that a balloon is going to be sub-orbital.. i’ve never seen a balloon do 18,000 km/hr before.

>>My main focus is the Sun, Space Weather and the Sun-Earth connection. Since I am training for actual space flight, I also learn about other areas of space, space exploration, health/medicine and lots of other very interesting topics.<<

Smart rubber chicken…

At least it a sounds a bloody lot smarter than mine which usually only manages to achieve low level orbit of party spaces and then crash land.

Rule 303 said:

Can the rubber Chicken be called Ivana Poulet, please?

I think we should call it Ivana Poulet.

I think it should be called “Gastro Chicken”

>>Ivana Poulet

:)

Mate used to play in The Chook Raffle Band…

Leghorn Luhrs, Col Cockerel, Geoffrey Giblet and Pete Pullet…

One of the more famously serious songs that the Chooks do is “Let’s Get a Cow”. It was written in 1980 and is one of the few songs ever written about cows. It still is an important song in the Chooks shows and has not only been recorded by The Chook Raffle Band but also by Lester Coombs, Chad Morgan, The Victorian Police Band and The Queensland Symphony Orchestra!

The Chooks have a sensitive side as well; like the true story of the Luhrs Family acquiring a pet. The song is called “It’s Hard to Be a Cowboy with a Poodle by Your Side”.

Ian said:

… one of the few songs ever written about cows …

Cows With Guns comes to mind.

AussieDJ said:

Ian said:

… one of the few songs ever written about cows …

Cows With Guns comes to mind.

Perhaps The Little Willies, Lou Reed

“ And we don’t need the sound like we’re tripping / But we swear to God we saw Lou Reed / Cow tipping..Cow tipping.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R63EI8ySsU

I can’t see the mirror of this thread in the New Forum. I’m sure they would be interested.

But no, I’m not putting it there.

do you want me to start a thread over there?

Probably not worth the grief. But it is a funny and fascinating story.

too slow buffy.

:-)

Boris said:

do you want me to start a thread over there?

No, definitely not, IMHO

>>too slow buffy.

:-)<<

Naughty. But it could be interesting.

Well, that was a predictable response…..echos of the predictions even.

:)