The Professor Considers Leaving The Vehicle Assembly Building
12 December 2019
It so happens that we have a Keurig, a coffee maker that uses little prefilled pods. (I realize the ethical issues in this, but as we as a species will be extinct within three generations, it’s all kind of academic.)
We recently gained a platform for it, which it sits on, and which contains a drawer to store pods in. It’s about as wide as it is deep. Since a Keurig on a platform is too close to the overhead cabinets to lift the pod loading hatch, it rolls out so the machine is unencumbered.
It occurred to me almost immediately that what it most looked like to me was the big tracked platform that used to move spaceships from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site. There is thus a certain feeling of ceremony whenever I roll the appliance out.
What really has me excited, though, is that yesterday I learned that Lego has a new kit out - it’s around 3000 pieces to make a three-foot model of the Saturn V. The kit is well over a hundred dollars, and I’d have no place to display it, but I am enchanted by the thought of putting the completed model on the trundling platform and rolling it out to meet its destiny.
We have ignition.
It so happens that we have a Keurig, a coffee maker that uses little prefilled pods. (I realize the ethical issues in this, but as we as a species will be extinct within three generations, it’s all kind of academic.)
We recently gained a platform for it, which it sits on, and which contains a drawer to store pods in. It’s about as wide as it is deep. Since a Keurig on a platform is too close to the overhead cabinets to lift the pod loading hatch, it rolls out so the machine is unencumbered.
It occurred to me almost immediately that what it most looked like to me was the big tracked platform that used to move spaceships from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch site. There is thus a certain feeling of ceremony whenever I roll the appliance out.
What really has me excited, though, is that yesterday I learned that Lego has a new kit out - it’s around 3000 pieces to make a three-foot model of the Saturn V. The kit is well over a hundred dollars, and I’d have no place to display it, but I am enchanted by the thought of putting the completed model on the trundling platform and rolling it out to meet its destiny.
We have ignition.