Comments | heath: Blazing Sun

heath

Blazing Sun

Aug 06, 2005 23:09

I've had an exciting day. Associate rather loosely with a group of nerd-types that like to go out to the Black Rock Desert to chase rockets around. There are folks that occasionally like to launch things in the desert to very high altitudes. Once launched, these things inevitably return to the earth subject to the whim of the winds aloft. My ( Read more... )

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smjayman August 7 2005, 14:08:54 UTC

Sounds like good times. Good luck with your match. :)

madkiwi August 7 2005, 15:48:05 UTC

You didn't mention the terrorist Canadian on the trip back.

You didn't forget him on the playa, did you?

heath August 8 2005, 00:22:22 UTC

Yeah, we left his ass there. He had a ride home.

bandicoot August 7 2005, 18:05:22 UTC

Sounds like a lot of fun ;)

atek128 August 8 2005, 18:57:25 UTC

That rocket excursion sounded fun.

Re: the 27 year old... that could have been me 2 years ago. I was riding dirt bikes around and I got lost... about 30 miles from civilization on an unknown vector. I was starting to get thirsty and low on gas when I heard a dim, "WHUMMPP"!! I heard tannerite over the horizon. And just rode towards the explosions, eventually finding my camp :)
ahh good times.

atek3