Homemade High Altitude Rocket (On-board Video) travelling to 121000 ft. Space is amazing and our atmosphere is beautiful.

Stats:

• 8" diameter
• 167.5" long
• 329 lbs
• Q-18,000
• 143,000 N-sec
• 4,000 lbs of thrust for 8 seconds
• Case-bonded, Fin-O-Cyl Grain
• Welded Aluminum Fin Can
• Graphite Throat in Phenolic Carrier with Aluminum Retainer/Expansion Cone
• 2 Timers
• 4 GPS
• 1 Accelerometer
• 1 Cosmic Ray Detector
• 2 GoPro HeroHD
• 1 FlipHD
• Black Powder Actuated Pneumatic Cylinder Recovery
• Custom Launch Tower
• 121,000' in 92 seconds
• 3,200 ft per second
• 15+ g's

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Visitors Feeding Live Goat to Lions

For $40.00 dollars visitors can feed the lions at the wild animal park in one of 80 zoo parks in China.

Other animals may also be purchased; chickens, goose, goats, sheep and other livestock. Ranging from $5-$40 to help keep admission prices low.

The Chinese say they try to keep this as natural as possible. I suspect they don't get fed too often, judging by the way they frenzied upon the poor goat.

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Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born 30 November 1979 in Vancouver, Canada) is an environmental activist, speaker, television host and author. She's David Suzuki's daughter, not some random child. Don't be too surprised.

Raised in Vancouver and Toronto, Severn Cullis-Suzuki has been camping and hiking all her life. When she was 9 she started the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a small group of children committed to learning and teaching other kids about environmental issues. They were successful in many projects before 1992, when they raised enough money to go to the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Their aim was to remind the decision-makers of who their actions or inactions would ultimately affect. The goal was reached when 12 yr old Severn closed a Plenary Session with a powerful speech that received a standing ovation.

Severn was 12 when she made this speech. Her speech was moving, but the cynic in me saw all the delegates leaving that conference and eating a sumptuous dinner. Perhaps a bit later, they went to talk to heads of state in their country. And then those heads of state went to talk to the people who gave them billions of dollars to get elected. And they all talked about that moving speech that the 12 year old girl gave at that conference. And then the conversation moved on to how important it was to deregulate the pollution controls on because it was hurting their industry's ability to compete globally. And if they can't compete on a global scale... well, Mr. Head of State, they can't cut you a big check... and you can't run television ads to get reelected.

The problem, I think, with speeches like this, is that they are made by people who fervently believe in the change they are proposing but have no power to actually enact that change... I looked up what Severn Suzuki is doing these days, hoping that she was a diplomat, or a high-ranking environmental official somewhere but cynically thinking that she's probably abandoned her environmentalist mindset and is working for some big multi-national. Alas, she is still an environmentalist, and is still making speeches. Anyway, THANK YOU, Internet for putting the spotlight on this beautiful speech again.



This is Severn's speech at the University of British Columbia in Canada on October 2008:

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Isn't it crazy how so many of us drew this in elementary school, but we are from different cities/counties/states/countries? Sh*t went GLOBAL. Something like this spread virally long before the Internet existed (i.e. I was born in the 80's and we all learned to draw it). It literally had to pass by word of mouth from school to school... craaaaaazy!

This symbol is actually from a puzzle book that was released by Scholastic books. The original puzzle simply showed two rows of three vertical lines, and the challenge was to turn them into the letter S by adding eight more straight lines. Looking at the finished product it looks easy, but when faced with the two rows of three lines it was quite a challenge. Once it was figured out it became something to doodle as a rule. This became wide spread because EVERYBODY used to get Scholastic books in elementary school at one point or another.

Apparently it is also the Super S Stussy symbol which was drawn by kids worldwide in the 1990's.

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