Actually it is rocket science

February 13th, 2012 by

Five years ago we lost a good friend and founder of Mythic Beasts, Chris Lightfoot. In addition to his many public achievements we remember some of the smaller and less well documented experiments. The fan assisted barbeque that had a cooking range of several metres. The hot air balloon that was equally effective at setting fire to fences. The never yet satisfactorily explained quantum effects in the Theory of Asymptotic Washing Up.

Spurring on that traditional english eccentricity and hopefully providing a little inspiration to the next generation of super villans we’ve just agreed to donate a little server to providing hosting for Cambridge University Spaceflight. We’d like to think that in a universe where Chris’ waveform had collapsed differently he’d watch a rocket launch and associated datastream with a hidden sense of excitement before correctly pointing out ‘Now you have Two problems’.