Dec 26, 2006
Booyle rocket
What on earth’s a “booyle rocket”, I hear you ask! Well, I haven’t a clue. It’s just a search term that a Sciencebase visitor used in our search box.
Intrigued, I Googled the phrase and it turns out to be a Google Whack Blatt to a rather crude dating site. Fortunately, Google also offered the option that perhaps I’d misspelled bottle…so was the visitor searching for “bottle rocket”, perhaps?
If they were then there is a stack of information on that term. 1,590,000 pages in fact in my search including reference to a 1994 (or 1996, two IMDB entries, same movie, different years) Wes Anderson movie of the same name. But, I think visitors to this site are more likely to have been looking for a science project kind of bottle rocket rather than a movie.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a bottle rocket science project to offer but this site does and it looks so quick and simple that I thought it worth mentioning.
So, if you’re totally bored with all the goodies you received yesterday already, then check it out, grab some scissors and a fizzy drinks bottle, and head out to the local recreation ground to show off your favourite “new” toy.
How long did it stay up in the air?
When I was in high school there was a bottle rocket competition annually, not really a competition in fact because there is no criteria to compare among candidates. But all teams spent several week to design and fabricate their own rockets and in the final gethering day all teams with their products tried out in a plaza. Some rockets flew very high, but some just fell off the ground directly without achieving any height (terrible losers). Modifications included sound producers or parachute designs.