CoolMantid
Well-known member
This is what my uncle sent me
Alex,
This morning, with the help of Yasmine Shad, my director of Quality Systems, we sent three brave crickets in their crew capsule inside of the launch capsule into our -80 centigrade freezer for an hour. That is the same as -112 F !!! This is likely much colder than what they will encounter this Saturday.
I left them in the capsule for an additional 30 minutes than put them their plastic recvoery bag. To my dismay, they appeared to be...well,dead. About an hour later, just before I was about to pass them along to Durate sanitation, they moved! Now they are jumping around and seem happy as can be!!
This is a very important successful experiment. I am more confident than ever that we will be able to keep our astrosects alive. '
Stay tuned!
Very good news. Weather patterns are holding and our GPS tracking system (the AE35 unit
) tracked perfectly on the way home last night, on our ride this morning, and in the capsule in my car into work this morning.
Unless something changes with the weather, it looks like we good to go on Sat. We are currently planning to meet up at the Coffee Bean on Indian Hill in Claremont between 5:50 and 6am in order to get to the launch site (probably south of Ontario airport somewhere off the 15) and be able to launch early enough to avoid early morning winds.
More details to come. Get excited. It looks like were going to do this.
Alex,
This morning, with the help of Yasmine Shad, my director of Quality Systems, we sent three brave crickets in their crew capsule inside of the launch capsule into our -80 centigrade freezer for an hour. That is the same as -112 F !!! This is likely much colder than what they will encounter this Saturday.
I left them in the capsule for an additional 30 minutes than put them their plastic recvoery bag. To my dismay, they appeared to be...well,dead. About an hour later, just before I was about to pass them along to Durate sanitation, they moved! Now they are jumping around and seem happy as can be!!
This is a very important successful experiment. I am more confident than ever that we will be able to keep our astrosects alive. '
Stay tuned!
Very good news. Weather patterns are holding and our GPS tracking system (the AE35 unit
) tracked perfectly on the way home last night, on our ride this morning, and in the capsule in my car into work this morning.Unless something changes with the weather, it looks like we good to go on Sat. We are currently planning to meet up at the Coffee Bean on Indian Hill in Claremont between 5:50 and 6am in order to get to the launch site (probably south of Ontario airport somewhere off the 15) and be able to launch early enough to avoid early morning winds.
More details to come. Get excited. It looks like were going to do this.
