{"id":73239,"date":"2020-07-05T22:09:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T02:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=73239"},"modified":"2020-07-05T22:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T02:19:31","slug":"sunday-night-building-louie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/07\/05\/sunday-night-building-louie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday night – building Louie"},"content":{"rendered":"

img_8272.mov<\/a>Get into the end of a very nice four-day weekend . It was so great not thinking about work.<\/p>\n

Spent most of the day working with my friends on the fire and water festival. We’re building a burning sculpture\u2026 Nowhere near as nice as our friend Chris could do it\u2026 But it’s fun to try to build something. This will be a 10 foot tall figure of king Louis sitting on his ‘throne’ Who’s head flies off at just the right moment.<\/p>\n

We were trying to find a way to launch Louise 3 1\/2 pound head\u2026 We tried springs, we tried bungees\u2026 Which sort of worked but was kind of unimpressive I finally decided to resort to some “G” rocket engines\u2026 These are much bigger than the kind you let your kids play with\ufffc<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t even sure that these very powerful engines could lift a total weight of about 4 pounds\u2026 (That’s a lot for a small rocket)\u2026 But it ended up going 100 feet in the air and almost smashed newts car. It missed by 3 feet\ufffc<\/p>\n