Kaboom!!
The prospect of marmalade-powered rockets just reminds us how, errr, tricky it is to fire something up into orbit.
From the birth of man we have looked into the heavens... ah, forget it. Just look at these explosions!
Weird Science Factoid: Don't laugh too much, it can kill you. Fatal hilarity is death as a result of laughter. In the third century BC the Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs. Go figure.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
