- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
*whispers*
Don't tell anyone, but it's a bean-powered rocket. My grampa who's a rocket scientist told me about it.
Seriously, though, my "grampa"(marriage, not blood) was an engineer who worked on at least one of the Saturn series of orbital boosters. It was long before I was even born, so all I could find out was that his children and grandchildren liked the models of stuff that he brought home and showed to them. He's still not retired, but I'm not sure whether he's still an engineer. He doesn't act his age at all- most his age are either growing old or doing nothing at all in thier boxes and urns. He's just about impossible to make be upset. His sons marvel at how you just can't get him pissed off. I know it sounds weird, but you'd know where they're coming from with that if you saw his whole region of my family...