Bryant Pond, Maine - On August 20th, 2011, Cemetech made its first forays towards its next great frontier, the vastness of interstellar space. Four intrepid members of the Cemetech administration team launched a TI-84+SE calculator into space, which orbited the planet before returning safely to Earth. The calculator collected eye-opening data about the feasibility of future calculator-based expeditions to the Moon, Mars, and to planetary systems far beyond our current reach. These four brave aeronautics pioneers documented their work, and the Cemetech Space Exploration Program is proud to share this video with you today. Join us in welcoming the dawn of a new age in space-borne technology!
You should have announced this, me and my dad would have come out and launched our rockets. In fact my dad launched small animals in rockets before anyone here was born, so we've already beat you to manned spaceflight. We never thought to launch a calculator though. Golf-balls, yes, army men on parachutes, yes, but never calculators. We should 1up you guys and actually launch one with some kind of data gathering package like an accelerometer or a barometer. Now that I think about it, if you guys could put together the hardware and software package, my dad has the 30+ years of experience needed to make it fly. We could even bring our massive G-engine Viking rocket out of mothballs for this, which could actually hold several TI-83/84 series calculators in it's payload compartment...
We had tons of fun. DShiznit, an Arduino / accelerometer / altimeter package could easily stream data to a calculator via CALCnet for recording and analysis. That would be awesome! Yes, we did go swimming and canoeing and such, but that day we had gone watersliding on natural rock waterslides at Steppe Falls.
I thought they were Steppes, hence Steppe Falls. Now you have your Step Falls info to counter my Androscoggin trivia knowledge.
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