h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Fantastic stuff, great to see on the Front Page.

And the picture, who do we have to thank for that? (it's not been coded in the Entry...)

Great!

Yeah! Wonderful piece! Only on Hootoo would you find this kind of article!

Thanks.

Picture's mine. It was meant to be just a sketch to show what the picture could be like, but then somehow got blobbed Hence the deformed tennis ball

Super article.
Has anybody tried it out yet? People would pay good money to see just half of that stuff happening. Tennis balls burning up in the sky! And the hits on You Tube! It'd be more popular than the mint plop in the pop video clips.

Any AViators up for the challenge?

C'mon! I'll drop the balls for you.
*noise of Vestie running round the fuselage looking for a tennis ball and another the size of a small planet.*

Have you designed a device for dropping them straight, then?

Of course I have. But I can't tell you too much about it as the patent isn't quite through yet.

What I can say is that it is the best use of blutack and spaghetti and duct tape the world has ever seen.

I'm sure it is!

I just need to check with you. When you say "straight" how straight do you mean? I can get it to within about 14 or 15 centimeters so far.

That's not very straight at all. We're talking millimetres here. Less than half a degree, for optimum bounce. Sorry. Maybe some kind of conical tube arrangement with an open top?

*starts cooking enormous ice cream cone*
I'll be with you in a bit.

Good. That will shatter into shrapnel and possibly catch fire, more things going boom!

ing away or toward, Milla?

*batter mixture running off elbows*
Do you think this what they use to make the nose cones on rockets?

away from the shrapnel...

An ice-cream cone rocket sounds like a fine invention...

I'm just wondering how expensive fuel will get before NASA starts building rubber-ball shuttles

Sorry, Malabarista, I can't speak at the moment, I have someone from NASA on the other line asking about my patent.

*noise of Vestboy not quite hanging up properly*

"Hello, Mr Nasa? Ah, yes, It's all my own idea. What? No, I've never heard of Malabarista. You say he should get half of the profits... I'm not so sure about that...
But just think, if we use ice cream to reduce the effects of high temperature we solve all of the problems."

*click as receiver falls properly into place.*

You can always team up with the Japanese to solve the heat problem...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7230949.stm