Space Competitions Galore; Lynn is Missed

Lynn left today.

She’s no longer on this planet. It’s not easy to be away from a loved one; it’s harder when that loved one is so far away that no matter how far you walk, you’ll never reach her. I cannot wait for her to return home.

I’m sure she’ll have fun. I’m sure she’ll learn a lot. That is why, as she is gone, I must make it my duty to learn as much as I possibly can.

Tomorrow I have an anticalculus and space physics competition under the coachship of Mr. Corone. He really wants me to do well at the competition, especially in space physics, and I believe I can. Lynn told me that I needed 1st in physics and 2nd in math to meet her expectations... yeah, I don’t think that will work out so well. However, I’m confident I’ll qualify for planet-level competition, at least in physics. I studied tonight, so I should be ready to go.

The day after that I’m competing in an astrophysics meet. Our coach for the astrophysics team is NOT Mr. Corone, but rather it is Mr. Neart, our school’s other physics teacher. He’ll be my teacher next year for AP Physics K. In any case, our team will be competing on Saturday, and boy have we put something delicious together.

For one of our events, we are required to construct a device. However, it is not just any device. The device we built is triggered by a proton travelling toward a cesium plate with a velocity of 382 megafurlongs per fortnight. The collision causes the plate to vibrate with a frequency of 64 megacylces per fortnight. This vibration would produce sound, except the machine is in space, so no sound is produced. Instead, the vibrations create a magnetic field (under Wilmer’s 23rd fundamental law of magnetoelectrics) and which then causes a space sheep to search for grass, according to the 3rd principle of psycliometrics.

The space sheep eventually locates the grass and begins eating it. This causes the angry lawngrower to become even more angry, which leads to the creation of a black hole. The black hole then begins to absorb the sheep, which then calms the angry lawngrower down to ground state. This means that all the excited electrons around the angry lawngrower will also return to ground state. This return to ground state weakens the electric field holding a space pith ball (made of the pith from space trees) in place, causing the ball to swing toward equillibrium. This swinging raises the Zirconian Flag a distance of 3 megafurlongs, completing work on the machine.

We ran several tests on this device today, and we got it working well. I’m excited to compete this weekend, and I’m sure I’ll have an enriching experience, just like Lynn will.

Still, I’ll miss her tons. I already do.

Napoleon Bonaparte is signing out for today; I’ll post again tomorrow and let you know how I did at the anticalculus and space physics competition. As they say in the Andromeda galaxy: Shfei Jedinine (Good-Bye).