B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 14, 2022

Faith is dangerous to your health

His landing will be the same as usual.

New Faithful. Of course.

“Old Faithful … The early years”.

Not sure the steam burns are worth this method of flight.

“New Faithful’? What happened to ‘Old Faithful’?

There are much higher geysers but they do not keep on schedule as well.

Natural Rocketry: With Faithful, they can do a countdown and Liftoff.

So the old faithful was “New” in BC!

The hardest part is always the landing.

I believe the sound effect is spelled “Fwoom!”

That’s gonna leave a mark or two !

Instantly thought of Jules Vern’s “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”……….

Back in the real world there are several people burned each year by being stupid around Yellowstone’s thermal pools and the geyser. Not only are some of the pools boiling and also acidic but the “ground” around them is often just a fragile crust that can give way. Darwin might not be earning enough of his keep but that’s a mighty rough way to tempt him.

So they’ve run out of Preparation H in Id.

it took me a minute but then I realized that, presumably, the US geyser Old Faithful would have been called New faithful a long time ago.

Yosemite, we have a problem!

Years ago some college students working in Yellowstone got hold of an old car steering wheel and shaft and stood behind the crowd at Old Faithful. when the geyser did it’s usual sputter just before erupting one of the guys called out “Open ’er up” and the guy with the wheel started turning it. They got a big laugh from the crowd as the geyser did it’s thing.

Even Neil Young was once not old.

I want to see the landing! I want to see the landing!

LOL!

Ballistic trajectory and flight aren’t really the same….

That there is a bad idea, I don’t care who you are. …is there a line? How much does it cost to ride? I’m just asking for a friend.

If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing? I guess we will have to wait and see how well he lands or if????

The first attempt at a video of someone sitting on an exploding airbag.

Without the airbag, or a way to record video.

Someone is going to have steamed buns.

But the birds don’t fly over on the same schedule.

“Take offs are optional, landings are mandatory.”

Flying by the seat of his pants?

“New Faithful” is funnier than the rest of the strip!

It still surprises me to think -

The first flight (Wright Brothers 1903) and the first step on the moon (July 20, 1969) were a little over 60 years apart. All within my grandfathers lifetime.

He forgot to take his protein pills and put his helmet on!

An enema would have been a better way.

Foom – see, now this exclamatory comment makes sense – unlike his normal totally unrelated ones

That upward motion is very cool. It’s that gravity thing you really have to plan for. Oh well, trial and error is how we learn…

Grog, you’re standing on the equivalent of a filled volcano who’s rims would be over the horizon. And you’re ignoring the earthquakes and escaping gasses. And the last time she blew, ash dropped as far as what will be known as Wisconsin.

Here..Hold my beer

At least there is no hole in the wood he is sitting on!

I’ve always wondered…if we did not have examples of flight from nature, would we have ever developed flying ourselves?

That’s the hot seat.

AAAAAANNNNNDDDDD we have lift off!

The Amazing Flying Thor!

new faithful hahahahaha

“Because I gotta have faith, faith, faith” -George Michael

Old rule of aerodynamics — tie enough power to it, and you can make a barn door fly.